HE HAS NO SUCH AUTHORITY (and he knows it)
Any E.O. that restricts the Bill of Rights is tantamount to declaring Martial Law.
Of course he doesn’t. He can order agencies under the Executive branch to do a lot of things...however, in matters as grave as having to do with the Second Amendment, the EO must have some basis, established relevancy and applicability to existing law to be ‘legal’.
That said, he’ll try it - have the ATF and DHS ban further imports of those nasty AK variants, ban foreign magazines, etc. He’ll even dangle money in front of the states to enforce bans on their own.
That said, and I’ve said this more than once here recently. I am NOT his employee, He can’t order ME to do squat. I am NOT his subject! I won’t comply to registration and I’ll resist confiscation.
Is he intentionally riling up the gun debate so that people won't be pressing on Fast and Furious and Benghazi and who knows what else...
But.
How many in this country know that? <=== the more important point.
He has no authority to murder 16 year old American citizens wanted by nobody with drones and yet he did it. And even a bunch here at FR applauded him for it because the kid was a Muslim with family ties to jihadists. You give this clown that kind of power and you think he’ll stop there?