George H WBush banned imported assault rifles in 1990 - by Executive Order

[malaise]

Just saying

[riqster]

1. Link?

[malaise]

3. There are several links - here's one from guess wh0 - FOX news

Issuing an executive order is not a new idea. It has been used many times before.

In 1989, then-President George H.W. Bush halted the importation of some semi-automatic firearms that could be considered “assault weapons” under existing legal authority provided by the 1968 Gun Control Act, under the determination that they were not “particularly suitable for or readily adapting to sporting purposes.”

Bush used his executive powers after a career criminal killed five kids and wounded 29 others with an AK-47 assault rifle on Jan. 27, 1989, in California.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/12/range-executive-actions-possible-on-guns-some-more-controversial-than-others/#ixzz2I0NThhdu
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This time it was 20 kids plus teachers and administrators

[riqster]

9. Thanks! Here's another:

https://www.law.nyu.edu/ecm_dlv1/groups/public/@nyu_law_website__journals__journal_of_legislation_and_public_policy/documents/documents/ecm_pro_060716.pdf

[malaise]

10. Thanks for this one n/t

[Tx4obama]

4. Bill Clinton AND George H.W. Bush both have issued executive orders regarding gun control

-snip-

There's ample precedent. After a mass school shooting in Stockton, California, in 1989, George H.W. Bush issued an executive order, pursuant to the 1968 Gun Control Act, that banned imports of certain assault weapons unless used for sporting purposes. Years later, Bill Clinton by executive order banned imports of almost five dozen different assault weapons that had been modified to get through that "sporting purposes" exemption. President Obama could go even further.

-snip-

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/obama-executive-power-debt-ceiling_b_2447359.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

[malaise]

7. I hope he does

[freshwest]

14. If Obama does that, it'll be 1776 all over again!

http://allhatnocattle.net/blog7/

[Turbineguy]

2. Yeah,

but he was a white-skinned republican. So no problem for the wing-nuts.

[malaise]

5. But this time four times as many persons were killed n/t

[hack89]

6. I am sure domestic manufacturers would be happy.

less competition with high demand would be very profitable.

[spanone]

8. yes, but he's a white guy born in america with a valid birth certificate.

[malaise]

11. They will learn

Obama got more electoral college and popular votes..so there

[spanone]

16. i listened to marsha blackburn whining about the debt today on tv

she spent four years in congress when bu$h was prez and signed off on every

huge spending bill he put forth.

didn't give a thought to the deficit.

how they get away with their hypocrisy is a testimant to our lame media.

[Archae]

12. That was one of Bush elder's most useless Executive Orders.

Did absolutely NOTHING for the sales of domestic-manufactured assault rifles, just banned foreign-manufactured ones.

[okaawhatever]

13. I was aware of that, and to give u an idea of where NRA's true focus is, it says "importation" i.e

You can only buy from American gun manufacturers.

[samsingh]

15. kick

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

17. Huh? I bought a new Romanian semiauto AK about 3 years ago. Did the ban go away? n/t