tonguengroover wrote: Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:21 am
It's happened before and I didn't have one so I was left out in t h e cold for years.
But I learned and bought one.
Is it fair? No
May have been the only thing Bush did right was stop the ban.
So I suggest y'all get with it. And stop whining. Lol
Things were a little different when the ban was signed. I wouldn't give BushII too much credit for 'stopping the ban'..it was sunsetted in 2004.
Afterward, Speaker Thomas S. Foley and his top lieutenants, all Democrats, trooped down to the White House with a message for a shocked president who was already struggling on his signature health care proposal: Drop a divisive ban on assault weapons or the crime bill won’t pass.
“When I voted for it, I actually had to have police protection for six months,” Representative Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, said of the backlash to his vote for the assault weapons ban. “It was really nasty.”
Representative Jack Brooks, the pro-gun Texas Democrat who was chairman of the Judiciary Committee, led the effort to defeat the ban, and he scored a notable success in mid-August when he and nearly 60 other Democrats mutinied.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/07/us/p ... s-ban.html
With 9/11 still in everybody's mind, there was little chance that the AWB would have been re-instated.