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State News & Gun News => NRA & National Gun News => Topic started by: Blue Hen Firearms on March 30, 2009, 09:58:44 PM
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is now the second member of President Obama's cabinet to get shot down by the White House over the politically sensitive issue of assault weapons. After meeting with Mexican President Felipe Calderón, Clinton said that reinstating the U.S. ban on assault weapons—which was passed in 1994 and expired in 2004—is one step this country could take to curb the flow of guns to Mexico's drug cartels. "These military-style weapons don't belong on anybody's street," Clinton told NBC. Within hours, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that he was unaware of "any plans" to push for such a ban—even though Obama had backed one during last year's campaign.
Attorney General Eric Holder had a similar experience a few weeks earlier. After he endorsed a ban at a Feb. 25 press conference, Justice officials were instructed by White House aides to drop the issue, according to administration and congressional aides who asked not to be named due to political sensitivities. What's behind the shift? A budding relationship between the gun lobby and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill. After Holder mentioned the ban, the National Rifle Association sent out action alerts to its members and bombarded Hill offices with calls. Sixty-five House Dems dashed off a letter to Holder opposing such a ban, while Speaker Nancy Pelosi—echoing the NRA's mantra on all gun-control issues—said she backed "enforcing the laws we have now."
NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre told NEWSWEEK that Hill Democrats have "learned their lesson" from 1994, when they enacted the ban and subsequently lost control of Congress. They've also learned that cozying up to the NRA can pay big dividends. Last year Democrats received 20 percent of the nearly $1.2 million that the NRA pumped into congressional campaign coffers—more than twice what it gave to Dems just six years earlier. The way things are going, this could be more than a shotgun wedding.
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I'm hoping things keep getting better
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I am with you sig.
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Is it me or does Obama seem like he is really trying to distance himself from the anti gunners, the anti gunners that he has surrounded himself with. I hope this isn't something where he is telling his people to talk it up and to gather support for it and in the meantime he will sqaush it to keep the NRA at bay.
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Do you think he might be afraid of the NRA
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I do not trust the current administration. I will never feel that the 2nd Amendment is safe as long as the apostate-in-chief ::) is in office or as long as Shrillary is anywhere near the White House. I do not expect a frontal assault, they will find a way to sneak it in the back door. >:(
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I hope he realizes that we will stand united
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I do not trust the current administration. I will never feel that the 2nd Amendment is safe as long as the apostate-in-chief ::) is in office or as long as Shrillary is anywhere near the White House. I do not expect a frontal assault, they will find a way to sneak it in the back door. >:(
Team Billary has previously stated that his worst mistake was passing the assault weapon ban, as it made the pro-gun movement even stronger, resulting in anti-gun losses during the ‘96 election. So, for that reason, I feared her a lot less than I feared Obama. That doesn’t mean that I set places for the Clintons at the table, mind you.
But with the recent number of national-headline shootings, I think that we are – again – facing another battle. And between the politicians and the media, I can’t tell the difference between the foot-soldiers the generals.
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If anyone can find Times artical please post it.
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Here is an article dated April 8, 2009 from Time.com title
"Boom in Gun Sales Fueled by Politics and the Economy"
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889886,00.html
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Wow I read the Poll on bringing back the Assault Weapons Ban on MSNBC and 77.4% said NO. Thats great!! :D