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Sanders said Tuesday that increasing the minimum age for purchasing a semiautomatic weapon is “certainly something that’s on the table for us to discuss and that we expect to come up over the next couple of weeks.”
Now this is the Washington Post and their anonymous sources, but I think it's important to put out there. I think people here would probably feel strongly about the content of this article and the issues raised.
Evidently, Javanka didn’t mention the 10th Amendment in their latest memo to POTUS.
Trump is a brilliant strategist folks. He’s throwing cold water on all over the Left’s anti-gun kooks. And this memo? It’s just that...it’s not the law and Trump will never sign a gun control bill even if it miraculously passes the House.
Our side needs to start protesting in front of pharmaceutical companies that make the drugs a lot of these kids are on.
Can’t give the democrats any issue to rally their base for the midterms.
Bump stock? Never heard of it. Won’t miss it.
The Compost is in full propaganda mode. This is purely designed to detach the President’s base from him.
already sent an email firmly opposing the President on this.
bad mistake on his part.
Advance the liberal agenda, Mr. Trump, and I will be more than happy to sit out 2018 and let them deal with you.
I have no need, want or use for anyone pushing meaningless laws and attacking my civil rights for something I didn’t do.
If that’s what you want to do, you can do it without me.
Consider it a warning, only going to say it once.
I dont get it. He can never go far enough for the gun grabbers. Anything he does that is less than full confiscation will not be valued or appreciated by the left and it just pisses off the right. I don’t get the benefit for doing a “little gun control”.
Florida voted two to one today to not ban ARs.
I’ve read the memo. It it very carefully-worded and does not call for banning bump stocks. It instructs the AG to propose a rule “banning all devices that turn legal weapons into machineguns.”
As the memo acknowledges, the ATF under Obama already determined that bump stocks do no such thing.
I don’t like this memo—I think the NFA and Gun Control Act should be repealed and that the right to own a machine gun is protected by the Second Amendment—but it is not quite what the headlines suggest.
Like it or not, the Left had their entire playbook teed up and ready to go at the next shooting - and our side never had a chance.
The bottom line is that Trump needs to give a bit, or we get WIPED OUT in November. I just hope he doesn’t go too far, or at least that the Republicans in the House stop him.
Nearly every mass killing has mental illness, drugs, or Islam involved. Deal with that!
Before uninformed among us jump in saying bump stocks are stupid I want to point out he also said "ALL DEVICES" that turn legal weapons into machine guns. First no device turns a firearm into a machine gun that is not already covered and highly regulated by the NFA. The reason we have legal other devices is precisely because they DO NOT turn a semi auto into a machine gun, hence they are legal.
So what we are really talking about is regulation on SHOOTING FAST. This would include light triggers made for precision shooting. Adjustable triggers or even triggers that have a pull weight of less than 20lbs for example which would make it impossible to fire quickly. Bump stocks, binary triggers, trigger cranks, very light weight target triggers, experienced shooters with lighting fast fingers DO NOT PER THE LETTER OF THE LAW turn a semi auto into a machine gun. This is the reason the BATF's hands are tied and MUST approve them and cannot regulate them.
The President needs to meet with Sessions and make an announcement that the LAW would need to be changed in order to regulate any of these devices and advise he does not support such law as it violates the second amendment.
In my opinion this could spell the end of the Trump presidency if some kind of onerous unconstitutional regulation comes out of this administration. The president will lose a major portion of his base and even those that are on the fence will begin to lose faith. The mid terms are coming. The second amendment is as sacred as the first and cannot be bargained with in any way without dire consequences.
Trump will do whatever is politically expedient at the moment. He is not a politician nor does he have an ideology or firm beliefs. He just takes up whatever is more popular position at the moment.
Since this Florida shooting, Americans are crying for gun control now, that’s why you see Trump taking the issue up.
Two things can cause Trump to lose support.
Amnesty and gun control.
The only solution at this point is to have armed personnel on site who can RETURN FIRE. These punks know they are killing fish in a barrel. That needs to change.
Liberal policies have unleashed this crap on us all. 2nd Amendment policies need to prevail.
And yet they also want the voting age lowered.
It’s insulting how stupid they believe we are.
The president said "ALL DEVICES" not just bump stocks. Can I make it more clear. "ALL DEVICES" , "ALL DEVICES" , "ALL DEVICES".
That definition can be nearly anything used to FIRE a semi automatic firearm. A regulation like this could and would almost certainly be turned into a complete ban on ALL semi automatic firearms.
There are people posting in this thread that don't have a clue about what they are saying or what has been proposed.
Can’t have gun control without a secure border.
There ain't gonna be any semi-auto ban. That's just a wet dream from the Democrats, who are feeling their oats and think this phony progressive punk—Sir Dennis Eton Hogg or whatever this little snot propagandist kid's name is —is going to lead them into the promised land of authoritarian, uconstitutional gun control.
It's not going to happen; this little pied piper of Tyranny has just about used up his 15 minute power trip. His propaganda is so manipulative and is being so transparently guided by the heavy-handed Media, that—once again—they have grossly overplayed their hand, and their true agenda stands exposed for all to see.
The President will get some gun legislation passed, but it will be crafted by Republicans, and it won't be what the Dems want.