midcountyg
Ultimate Member
The crowd that promotes "the president will regulate an AWB into existence" seems really vague and unclear on exactly how this would go down. The executive branch only controls enforcement of laws, and it is unclear to me from what law the ATF would suddenly derive authority to regulate hi-cap mags, semi-autos, etc. out of existence. They could probably crack down on imports via 922, but they could have done that already...
There's also the inconvenient fact that this would massively alienate him from even his allies in the House and Senate. The members of these institutions do not like seeing other branches take powers that they think are rightfully theirs, regardless of how those powers are used. If he did what some people claim he could do, his entire agenda would be in jeopardy.
That is not even mentioning that this would be something like unilateral political suicide for the Democratic party. Not only would the AWB hurt them in elections, the obvious and flagarant abuse of executive powers by "their guy" would haunt them for a long, long time during presidential elections. BHO does not hate guns more than he loves the Democratic party. No way.
All in all, it seems like the sort of baseless FUD that would be spread by a Republican party operative, or maybe the gun industry. There are perfectly good reasons to worry about the president's record on guns; fear of a magic executive-imposed AWB is not one of them.
Keep in mind, a large portion of what the BATFE goes by are 'education's and not necessarily laws brought through congress. It is a long stretch for bobo to do it with out congress,, and yes he would alienate some. But you must realize how back handed and arrogant he is. He will be even more so knowing it is his final term.