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As it stands now, the measure affects only two presidents -- Obama and predecessor George W. Bush.
and what's worse, these acts do not represent the original intent of Executive Orders.
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President Barack Obama issued an executive order to end the pay freeze on federal employees, in effect giving some federal workers a raise. One federal worker now to receive a pay increase is Vice President Joe Biden.
Originally posted by dave_welch
If you were to take a poll of all Americans, you would find that about 96% of them have never been shot
Originally posted by wondermost
why don't you go and shove a crumpet in your mouth, and drown in some tea. there surely is plenty of time for you to go buy a toothbrush and fix your mouth
Originally posted by Beavers
Originally posted by wondermost
why don't you go and shove a crumpet in your mouth, and drown in some tea. there surely is plenty of time for you to go buy a toothbrush and fix your mouth
Next time me eating crumpets with my bad teeth and downing tea kills a classroom/cinema full of kids, you might actually have a point.
Originally posted by wondermost
i think you missed the major point buddy. that was my pot shot on you , just like you sweepingly called all americans beer gussling, gun toating, murdering scumbags.
the point was, you dont have an opinion in this, cause your government already took your guns away. you all rolled over like cowards. stay out of it.
The Act created a flowchart for classifying 'assault weapons' and subjected firearms that met that classification to regulation. Nineteen models of firearms were defined by name as being 'assault weapons' regardless of how many features they had. Various semi-automatic rifles, pistols, and shotguns were classified as 'assault weapons' due to having various combinations of features.
The Act addressed only semi-automatic firearms, that is, firearms that fire one shot each time the trigger is pulled. Neither the AWB nor its expiration changed the legal status of fully automatic firearms, which fire more than one round with a single trigger-pull; these have been regulated by the National Firearms Act of 1934 and Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986.
The Act also defined and banned 'large capacity ammunition feeding devices', which generally applied to magazines or other ammunition feeding devices with capacities of greater than a certain number of rounds, and that up to the time of the Act were considered normal or factory magazines. Media and popular culture referred to these as 'high capacity magazines or feeding devices'. Depending on the locality and type of firearm, the cutoff between a 'normal' capacity and 'high' capacity magazine was 3, 7, 10, 12, 15, or 20 rounds. The now defunct federal ban set the limit at 10 rounds.
During the period when the AWB was in effect, it was illegal to manufacture any firearm that met the law's flowchart of an assault weapon or large capacity ammunition feeding device, except for export or for sale to a government or law enforcement agency. The law also banned possession of illegally imported or manufactured firearms, but did not ban possession or sale of pre-existing 'assault weapons' or previously factory standard magazines that were legally redefined as large capacity ammunition feeding devices. This provision for pre-ban firearms created higher prices in the market for such items, which still exist due to several states adopting their own assault weapons ban.
I still have all my beautiful guns. And there is nothing you can do about it.
Originally posted by Beavers
Originally posted by Raelsatu
In-case you haven't noticed, the world is still in turmoil. Wars still rage, psychopaths & tyrants still rule, criminals abound.
You aren't stopping that, you don't even care, you just want the right to get drunk and # up people's lives.
No one flipped because nothing was banned in 1994
All respectable gun owners know the general public doesn't really need unregulated machine guns
It banned the manufacturing and sale of specific "assault" weapons