The following is straight from W's spokesman's mouth. Are you saying it was unauthorized? W is not Clinton. He does not parse nor play poll testing to my knowledge. This was a shot across the NRA's bow and a broadside to the GOA.
"The president supports the current law, and he supports reauthorization of the current law," White House spokesman Scott McClellan told Knight Ridder.
Not an anonymous quote from a staffer. Why they wish to agitate their base right now beats me unless this is in fact their policy.
I will bet you a pair of green suede Prada 5 inch spike heels that there's more to the statement and the reauthorization never happens.