You want to campaign for O fine, but do it on the facts, not on a bunch of lies and disinformation
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) (or Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act) was a subtitle of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a federal law in the United States that included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms, so called "assault weapons". There was no legal definition of "assault weapons" in the U.S. prior to the law's enactment. The 10-year ban was passed by Congress on September 13, 1994, and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton the same day. The ban only applied to weapons manufactured after the date of the ban's enactment.
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired on September 13, 2004, as part of the law's sunset provision. There have been multiple attempts to renew the ban,[1] but no bill has reached the floor for a vote.
Do you even read the replies? No one here is campaigning for Obama. No one is attacking the GOP. I was pointing out the history of questionable gun rights behavior from the nominee.
I will ask again. Is that no longer allowed?
Bush said he would sign it if it reached his desk so Congress stopped it not Bush.
“You want to campaign for O fine, but do it on the facts, not on a bunch of lies and disinformation. . ..”
Campaign for O? Where did that come from?
Have we survived since Sept 2004 w/o a Federal AWB in force? I hadn’t known that, and now I’m frightened.. /sarc/
That's factually incorrect, even by your own citation:
The Federal Assault Weapons Ban expired on September 13, 2004, as part of the law's sunset provision.
The Republican Party literally had to do nothing. Why should we give them credit for it expiring, when they say they are for the 2nd Amendment shouldn't that mean that they fight for it? Shouldn't that mean that they actively try to repeal the GCA and NFA? Until then, the Republican Party should get very little to no credit for being "pro 2nd Amendment."