President Donald Trump said he’ll "seriously look" at banning gun silencers after last week’s mass shooting in Virginia.
“Well, I’d like to think about it," Trump said in an interview with Piers Morgan on ITV’s Good Morning Britain. “I’m going to seriously look at it."
While Trump said he didn’t "love" the idea of a ban, he also was unhappy to see the frequency and severity of mass shootings in the U.S.
Trump’s comments represent a potential crack in Republican opposition to stronger gun control measures.
They follow a shooting last week at a municipal center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in which a gunman killed 12 people. Police recovered a high-capacity magazine and a silencer mechanism from the scene.
Virginia’s Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, said Tuesday he will summon lawmakers back to the state Capitol to consider a package of gun-control legislation. Republicans control the state’s legislature. Northam’s proposals include a ban on silencers and high-capacity magazines.
The Trump administration earlier this year banned bump stocks, devices that let a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.
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[–] 19040691? ago
Executive orders aren't laws. The ATF instructs owners to "divest themselves" of bump stocks, which is the definition of uncompensated takings. This dies at the first legal challenge, as Trump has surely been told.
I've noticed this is his routine: He runs his mouth like a braggart, promises a ton of things he knows he'll never have to deliver, and then he shrugs when it doesn't happen. Hence my "full of shit" assessment.
Doen't apply to Israel, naturally. There, he's a regular Horton who says what he means and means what he says.
[–] 19040703? ago
They are the only form of authority a president has the technically overrides the law. Only a sitting U.S. President may overturn an existing executive order by issuing another executive order to that effect.
They have the force of law and when in effect are carried out as if it was a law
Bumpstocks are now banned because of Trump's executive order, that is a fact.
[–] 19040711? ago
This is aggressively wrong. Congress can and does override executive orders with legislation, which takes precedence over EOs, which are strictly just there to provide guidance to executive agencies on how to enforce the law (though it's been abused for decades, especially by King Nigger). The courts are also superior to EOs, which must pass (((Constitutional muster))) to be valid. States can also act to bar the implementation of EOs, or to modify their effects, within their borders, and though this hasn't really been tested in court it would probably hold up for any issue the Jews aren't too serious about, like Nigger Rights or antisemitism.
Ironically, past presidents have actually been blocked from overturning the EOs of their predecessors. I don't understand how, but both Bush and Obama have been cockblocked for trying to flip or repeal Clinton-era orders. Probably typical Jewish tricks, but EOs are not what you think they are.