Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Stephen King's comment on semi-automatics.. [View all]jimmy the one
(2,708 posts)straw man: So Reagan liked background checks and waiting periods, promoted two very significant gun control initiatives, and was deemed to have "stabbed" the NRA "in the back."
Those were done after he was president. I wrote he was considered pro gun while president, can't you read?: Reagan was considered pro gun as republican president. He certainly wasn't for gun control in the sense we use it.
link: Reagan cast his support to a pair of critical gun control measures in the 1990s: 1993s Brady Bill and 1994s Assault Weapons Ban.
1993 & 1994 are 5 years after Reagan was president, bozo, & likely while he was with alzheimers at that. And while Reagan supported bg checks & wait periods, he also contended IT WAS UP TO STATES TO DECIDE. He didn't want to federalize guncontrol, excepting as ex-president & ex-assassination attempt he supported the brady bill & awb.
You are a fool if you try to contend Reagan as not being 'pro gun' as president, & you are a fool if you contend Reagan as being for guncontrol as we call it, simply for supporting bg checks & waits after he himself was shot, while being progun elsewise. In other words, I smell a fool.
straw man: The only pro-gun-rights legislation he signed was FOPA, which merely rescinded the parts of GCA '68 that had been deemed unconstitutional. Yet he was "pro-gun." The illogic is stunning to contemplate.
You are really out of the loop on this. I think you're nuts. Firstly I said pro gun president, can't you read? you create another straw man argument, don't you? since you think it's 'easier' to defeat my argument if you remove 'as president', eh? strawman, you are a straw man's straw man.
Reagan entered 1980 presidential campaign as a known supporter of the right to keep and bear arms.
2 Reagan left little doubt about his stance on {2ndA}: In my opinion, proposals to outlaw or confiscate guns are simply unrealistic panacea.
3 Saying {2ndA} leaves little, if any, leeway for the gun control advocate, .. the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms must not be infringed if liberty in America is to survive.
regarding your ignorance re FOPA1986: His presidential administration did not bring about any new gun control laws of significance.
But the progun FOPA was passed under Reagan, sponsored by gunnut orrin hatch: Among other things, {Firearm Owners Protection Act1986, FOPA}: .. made it easier to transport long rifles across the US, ended federal records-keeping on ammunition sales and prohibited the prosecution of someone passing through areas with strict gun control with firearms in their vehicle, so long as properly stored.
2 In order to comply with the prohibition on a Federal registry of non-NFA items, background check records are legally required to be destroyed after 24 hours.
3 The gun rights movement lobbied Congress to pass the FOPA to prevent the abuse of regulatory power in particular, to address claims that the ATF was repeatedly inspecting FFL holders for the apparent purpose of harassment....{this was rightwing BS}.
4 {FOPA} mandated that ATF compliance inspections can be done only once per year.. a follow-up inspection would be if guns could not be accounted for. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act
In a 1991 op-ed, Reagan voiced his support for the Brady Bill, saying the 1981 assassination attempt might have never happened if the Brady Bill had been law.