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Administration to announce Exec Orders today
AP story here. The part about re-importing arms sold to other countries is a bit of a mystery to me. As I recall, that was already banned, by a legal provision outside the Gun Control Act. Under the GCA, you could import curios and relics, but this other provision banned American military guns that had been exported. Which is why you see surplus Mausers and Mosins advertised, but not Springfields.
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Never mind they they can't point to felons who used a trust to get around background checks. Or the fact that criminals don't use MGs, SBRs or silencers anyway, and even if they did, why would they register them?
This is just a racist attack on law abiding white people when he should be focusing on his own voters in inner cities who commit the vast majority of violent crime.
If I have the story straight, the long standing ban in re-importation of exported US military firearms was to protect US manufacturers from having to compete with US milsurps.
Frank wrote: "I fear this is just the beging of what will be all out banning and confiscation, by presidential orders of course."
Do you really worry about a presidential decree/order to ban and confiscate citizen's arms?
There are some things presidents cannot do. And there are some things presidents will not do.
I assume they are talking about shutting down the CMP or at least cutting off the lend-lease returns that the CMP distributes.
I'm sure the drug dealers in Chicago buy most of their guns from the CMP, so this will save hundreds of children in Chicago ever year.
As bad as these are, if this is the worst he can do, we can take it.
The NFA rule isn't right, but whats really terrible is the year long NFA transfer process. That needs to change. We need to get suppressors, SBSs and SBRs out of the NFA. And then repeal the Hughes amendment.
Yeah yeah, not likely to happen, but I can dream can't I?
This will have no affect on the CMP, the guns they receive are transferred from the Army when the foreign loan governments return them to the US government. That is all laid out in the legislation that created the CMP as it currently exists. Truthfully this latest pair of executive orders is more toothless grandstanding by a lame duck administration. The military weapon order has basically already been fact since Obama took office and has been blocking M1 rifle and carbine imports from South Korea and legislation has been introduced to allow such imports and hopefully it will be tacked on to the budget resolution. The NFA trust EO is merely an annoyance since Trusts still do not require CLEO sign off and will simply require a form 4 for each trustee which is something that was going to happen anyway as part of eliminating the CLEO sign off for all NFA transfers which has been in the works for at least a year already.
"This will have no affect on the CMP, the guns they receive are transferred from the Army when the foreign loan governments return them to the US government."
I beg to differ. That is precisely how the CMP gets most of it's rifles. Hillary tried to block the return of a large number of M-1 Garands that would have gone to the CMP just a couple of years ago. (Was she successful?) This makes it official policy now.
I fear this is just the beging of what will be all out banning and confiscation, by presidential orders of course. Why bother messing with the second amendment when you can use presidential orders?