Carolyn McCarthy may decide that a barrel shroud is a ventilated forend (like the SU-22 and SU-16 and PLR-16) and not solid like many older rifles. Who knows? She didn't even know what a barrel shroud was when it was a line item in the H.R. 1022 legislation that she introduced!
Here's some legislative reform:
1) The legislators must WRITE the bills they introduce. Some anti-gun group that's a big campaign contributor should not be allowed to write special interest legislation.
2) The legislators must READ the bill before voting on it. These bills are hundreds of pages long, often do exactly the opposite of what you'd think from the name, and the new pumped-full-of-pork versions often don't appear until the morning of the vote. How can anyone vote on legislation they haven't read? Isn't that the bare minimum expectation? If the bills are too long, then write shorter bills and stop pumping them full of pork.
3) One item per bill! It's impossible to hold legislators responsible for voting for their own pay raises when it's slipped into some "must pass" bill. Obviously, it's not an accident that the corrupt system is structured this way.
Who knows? Gun laws are so stupid and arbitrary that the SU-22 forend may be banned because it's black and it scares Chuck Schumer. They apparently don't need any other reason.
Obama is saying that gun owners don't have anything to fear and he's not going to take away our guns. Well, gee, now I feel a lot better. Oh wait, I remember George W. Bush running for president advocating a "humble foreign policy and no nation building". You can tell they're lying because their lips are moving.
Keep yer powder dry, boys.