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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (57312)	2/21/2018 11:23:46 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 362828

I do not think there was an EO required. I believe he determined he had regulatory authority by using the language "machine guns."

To: bentway who wrote (57312)	2/21/2018 12:31:28 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 362828

As an absolute ruler, he has the power.

To: bentway who wrote (57312)	2/21/2018 12:53:59 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 362828

> If you can ban bump stocks, you can ban large magazines. This is not automatically correct. According to Trump, he had DOJ look at bump stocks (beginning in December) to determine whether there was sufficient existing law under which to ban them with regulations. The ban he signed today was based on that. Whether magazines could be banned under existing law is an entirely different legal question. You understand that is how a lawful society operates, right? This isn't the Obama administration.