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Gun Control & RKBA

krispos42

(49,445 posts)

7. Obama definitely advocated for more gun control...

Reply to msongs (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 18, 2020, 01:31 PM

Dec 2020

...and was publicly pissed about it when the new, stricter AWB failed to pass Congress.

Getting rid of "assault weapons" is in the Party platform, and something Obama advocated for.

When you prohibit sales of an entire class of firearms, and current owners of those firearms can't transfer them to anybody but the government, what would you call it?

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From the other group: "Now the Gun Nuttery begins . . ." [View all] friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 OP

Of course! A Democratic Pres means it is time to roll out the tried and true bee ess... Thomas Hurt Dec 2020 #1

Trump's ATF did this a week ago: "Feds raid 'ghost gun' maker whose products they say are linked... friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #3

why don't they say exactly how many guns obama took away from anybody? like zero? nt msongs Dec 2020 #2

Or mention that *Trump* was the one who banned bump stocks? friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #4

Obama definitely advocated for more gun control... krispos42 Dec 2020 #7

how many of those guns were actually taken away? nt msongs Dec 2020 #8

None. krispos42 Dec 2020 #9

Key question, is, yagotme Feb 2021 #10

Great idea for a new reality tv show. Rick Rolle Feb 2021 #12

Gun confiscation is a pipe dream. Rick Rolle Feb 2021 #11

John Lott fabricated his statistics for his report and then claimed that he lost his source material keithbvadu2 Dec 2020 #5

It was probably in the same package thucythucy Dec 2020 #6

The canard about mass shooters ... Straw Man Feb 2021 #13