Giuliani - Friend or Foe to the 2A?

http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Feb11/0,4670,Onthe2008Trail,00.html
Giuliani claims his gun bans helped lower crime for New York city, yet claims to be a friend of the right to keep and bear arms... and says he will oppose the Federal Assault Weapons Ban.

On the OTHER hand...
http://www.nssf.org/news/PR_idx.cfm?AoI=generic&PRloc=common/PR/&PR=020607.cfm

The facts are on the side of gun rights, and I have little doubt that Giuliani will face a tough run in both the primaries and the general election if he doesn't have the support of the NRA and the gun rights voters.  It comes as little surprise to me that he is trying to woo the NRA and the gun rights vote by claiming opposition to the Assault Weapons Ban. 

(And FYI for all you uninformed retards, if the assault weapons ban expired, 'machine guns' would not be made legal suddenly - those are covered under *different* laws, and when you pull the trigger on an 'assault rifle' *ONE* bullet comes out.  They are ordinary guns.)

It was Giuliani's policing that helped tame New York; while the gun ban might not have played as big a role, it probably played a role nonetheless. Also, the idiots getting doped on crack cocaine and their neighbors realized it was a Bad Thing and moved to squash the practice (at least their neighbors and relatives did) - thus cutting down on said drug's destructiveness to black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Giuliani, for better or for worse, also cut down greatly the crime (and the porn) in Times Square, leading to a rebirth of the tawdry red-light district as a family friendly Disneyland (although there are still peep shows and strippers to be found near the Port Authority).