warrlac wrote:Clearly you are well versed on 2A issues and knowledgeable about many of the political actors around the country. I'm not following you when you talk about gun grabber Trump however? I'm aware of the recently overturned Bump Stock order but nothing else comes to mind. Certainly I am thankful for the three Constitutionalists he appointed to the US Supreme Court.
Just take a look at who's on the other side and endorsed by Mom's Demand Action, Everytown, Protect Minnesota, Giffords, Gun Owners for Safety...? They are all true gun grabbers and are supported by the most liberal political donors in our nation.
I'll vote GOP every time even if the candidate is not ideal.
Why are you not well versed on 2A issues? Trump is a gun grabber; his bump stock ban proved it. It was not that bump stocks were banned, it is how he accomplished it. He could have waited for Congress to pass a bill outlawing bump stocks, possibly with a buy-back scheme like they did in Washington state and other places, then he could have been the hero and vetoed it.
Instead Trump banned bump stocks the only way a president can. Amending the Code of Federal Regulations is how any president enforces existing laws. Trump ordered the ATF to write a rule that classified bump stocks as machine guns. Since 1934 machine guns have been required to be registered. Since 1986 (thank you Reagan) the civilian machine gun registry has been closed. Since bump stocks were invented long after 1986, they all became contraband in 2019 when Trump's new regulation went into affect.
Trump just wanted to make his mark on society by having his own gun grab.
That is why Trump is a true gun grabber by any definition. He f*ucked over as many as half a million law abiding American by ordering the confiscation of their property without compensation. As far as I know, this is the largest gun grab in American history. His gun grab was not even intended to save any lives, ever. The shooter (Paddock) in Vegas had the means to buy real machine guns, or he could have bump fired without a bump stocks as it is not that hard. While his motive is not known, no one was ever stupid enough to claim he murdered all of those people because he had access to bump stocks.
I don't know how many forced reset triggers the Biden administration had confiscated in 2022, or how many spring loaded bump stocks Bush accounted for in 2006, or how many people lost their guns due the Lattenburg Amendment during the Clinton administration, but it may have been far less than the up to the half million on Trump's score card.
Trump gun grab was not enough for him. He wanted red flag laws passed which would somehow allow a person to lose any of their guns without any due process. That is insane. How would that work anyway? If I think my neighbor is a threat, I can just take his guns without informing the police or the court, then let him figure it out later? No one have been able to tell me WTF Trump was thinking.
Trump also wanted to raise the age to buy semi-auto guns from 18 to 21.
Trump gun grab.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR- ... -27763.pdfLautenberg Amendment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_ ... er_Gun_BanTrump opposes due process on gun grabs. Watch at 45 minutes.
https://www.c-span.org/video/?441884-1/ ... CWXKfP6wn4Trump wants age limit to buy guns raised.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/preside ... d=53421961Forced reset triggers.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/open- ... s/downloadBush 2006 bump stock ban.
https://www.atf.gov/firearms/docs/rulin ... e/download
My gun collection has killed at least five fewer people than the Kennedy clan has with automobiles, airplanes and golf clubs.