Reagan did blow it with that 86 law. Bush Sr did some bad things as well. W did mostly great on guns, the sunsetting of the AWB I'll still give to Tom Delay though.
Watch the accusations though, it's not a good mentality.
It's tough to blame Reagan for that one, given the slimy way that amendment was added. Here's the thread on that vote from last January. Only took a quarter-century for that video to surface.
“Reagan did blow it with that 86 law.”
Not really, as much as I despise the 922.(o) ban, I despise the manner in which it was tacked on to the MV-86 bill even more.
That activity rivals Waco and “Fast & Furious” for it’s impudence and sheer feculent intent.
The MV-86 bill that was amended by surreptitious manipulation of fact is a very good law, it has kept a lot of Americans from becoming political prisoners of anti-RKBA jurisdictions.
When you make an accusation, make sure it is accurate, which yours was significantly not. Then you won’t have to be concerned about conclusions that people might reach, right?
You should rightfully be burned for making the accusation that one of the finest proponents of the 2nd Amendment ever to occupy the White House did, of his own free will, concoct and put into effect something like that via Executive Order. To point out he signed filthy legislation pushed by liberals instead of vetoing it and forcing an ovverride is one thing.
To fallaciously suggest, as you did, that Reagan created an Executive Order and signed it into effect is quite something else.
And by the way-I hope you don’t take my comments personally, because they are not intended as an attack on you personally.
This is a heated subject, and your comments clearly intended to establish an equivalence to Democrat gun control actions both in the actions of Reagan and HW Bush where there is no such equivalence.
Do the Republicans live up to all of our standards in this respect? Absolutely not.
Are they as bad as the Democrats? Twice as absolutely not. And to impugn Reagan with that error in your attempt to do so was deleterious to the discussion and to the reputation of Ronald Reagan.