2016 Postmortem

bullwinkle428

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8. Re: guns on Amtrak - President Obama signed that bill, which didn't earn him

Sun Nov 8, 2015, 12:00 PM

Nov 2015

lots of friends in the gun-control community.

Ten months later, as part of an omnibus spending bill, Obama reversed a decade-long ban on transporting firearms by train. Amtrak travelers can now carry unloaded, locked weapons in their checked baggage.

These actions, and others, are what earned Obama an "F" from the Brady Center for Gun Violence in 2010 for "extraordinary silence and passivity" on gun control. But Obama saw the moves differently.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/12/flashback-obama-i-have-expanded-rights-of-gun-owners/

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