Oh I don't doubt for a second that politicians will attempt to enact some dumb laws and/or regulations that don't even address the actual problems, and maybe even try some new bans; but I think even the most aggressive gun control advocates realize they'd have to make some concessions too... everything in our government is about compromise.G8, that is a well-reasoned response. My projected timeline is not quite so sanguine. As long as we have presidents who feel that ruling with pens and phones [and Blackberries] is defensible, I quake at the possibilities. I expect things like taxes on each bullet, onerous insurance requirements, environmental excuses, eminent domain attacks on shooting venues, stupid "smart gun" requirements. And, yes, attempts at confiscation.
As a reminder of CA debacle of 2000 read
http://jpfo.org/common-sense/commonsense08.htm
That's the old "you don't have to register those; ooops, yes you do, but we won't take them; thanks for coming in; ooops, changed our mind, give me that gun" trick.
Although we disagree, I sure hope you are right and I am wrong.
So I could see some new restrictions, but they'd probably grandfather in those firearms already manufactured or those already sold; and outright confiscation is virtually impossible, especially in states that have never had a registration requirement, which is most.
Personally, I shuffled my firearm wish list some so that the guns I thought were the most likely to appear on a "banned-but-grandfathered" list were at the top; even if that put them ahead of some I wanted more... did the same thing with hi-cap magazines, because banning those has been a tried-and-true method of neutering certain kinds of guns at the state level. Of course, the only folks abiding by magazine restrictions aren't criminals in the first place; you can be sure the criminals who intend to use those guns offensively in the commission of crimes use the full capacity mags.