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In reply to the discussion: The NRA is a Republican ancillary organization. [View all]GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)In the 1950s and 1960s the U.S. gave to South Korea about one million M-1 rifles. SK no longer needs them and wants to return them to the U.S. to be sold to civilians. Those rifles were made in America by Americans. New ones are still being made and sold to civilians, completely legally. But Obama won't let those rifles back in.
As a senator he voted against the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act and voted for the Kennedy Amendment to that same act. Kennedy said, in his speech that the bill would outlaw "cop-killer" cartridges such as the .30-30. That cartridge was designed in 1893 and is the most common deer cartridge in America. Banning it would have banned almost all huntin ammo.
Obama still supports reinstating and making permanent the Assault Weapons Ban.