Reply #3: Given that Dubya used executive orders to abuse our constitutional rights, Obama could also and I [View All]

[jody]

believe that is the question you posed.

We the People expect Congress to prevent such abuses and that's why every bill to appropriate money must originate in the House.

He who has the gold makes the rules but unfortunately those with obscene wealth have already bought enough senators and congresspersons so that they control Congress.

Pragmatically any president who tried to renew the AWB by executive order would face a multi-million person march on Washington from the 80+ million gun-owners.

That's why the strategy would be to renew a revised and expanded AWB like H.R. 1022 that gives the attorney general authority to ban any semiautomatic firearm that is similar to those used by the military.