[Major Matt Mason]

So this is an update of a Clinton EO? Boy, that makes me feel better - not.

[JerseyanExile]

Uh, this basic EO has been ongoing for decades. For example, here is the one that was made under Reagan.

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/EO12656.htm

It has the same sort of stuff in it, including things on developing industry to meet necessary needs of national defense. I’m going to agree with the general assessment of the linked article, that this EO is little more then mere boilerplate changes, and doesn’t grant any additional powers that the administration did not already have.

[CaptSkip]

A few months later in 1994, Clinton followed up his EO with his Assault Weapons Ban.

Wonder what 0zero has waiting in the wings...