I agree that they will make a huge move early in the year, the gun control agenda is going to be a long and torturous affair legislatively, it'll probably generate as much emotions as the healthcare reform of 2009-2010. Rather, I predict immigration reform will probably be secured by the first half of the year as the article predict, I don't see anything as of yet to stop it, and if it is somehow stopped in the house by the teapublicans( And the probability for that is also getting much lower), the registry could still very easily be rolled out.