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Trump evening tweet blaming Obama for bump stocks (Original Post)
oberliner
Mar 2018
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ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)1. The Don expected the role of president to be a sinecure
Damnit, why didn't Obama just set everything up so all I had to do was play golf and eat ice cream?!
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)2. Trump often said he would have no time to play golf, too busy working
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. The Don said a lot of things. That one was just another jab at Obama
And really, was he talking about working at being president or with his own investments?
oberliner
(58,724 posts)4. Yep
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)5. How about blaming Trump for tanking stocks?
just sayin'...
underpants
(182,839 posts)6. Politifact - Mostly True. But it was more of not being able to prohibit it not actually approving it
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/oct/06/national-rifle-association/nra-claim-obama-approved-bump-stocks/
Adam Winkler, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, who specializes in guns, said it was appropriate to characterize the move as an approval of its sale under the Obama administration.
"Not because they liked it, but because the law did not permit them to prohibit it," Winkler said.
Other legal experts stressed that it wasnt an approval, but rather a determination that current law didnt allow for its regulation.
"The statement implies Obama or (U.S. Attorney General Eric) Holder was somehow involved, and that it was an issue that wouldnt have been approved in any other administration, and thats technically incorrect," said Rick Vasquez, a former Firearms Technology Branch official who first signed off on the recommendation the ATF could not regulate the Slide Fire.
Adam Winkler, a law professor at University of California, Los Angeles, who specializes in guns, said it was appropriate to characterize the move as an approval of its sale under the Obama administration.
"Not because they liked it, but because the law did not permit them to prohibit it," Winkler said.
Other legal experts stressed that it wasnt an approval, but rather a determination that current law didnt allow for its regulation.
"The statement implies Obama or (U.S. Attorney General Eric) Holder was somehow involved, and that it was an issue that wouldnt have been approved in any other administration, and thats technically incorrect," said Rick Vasquez, a former Firearms Technology Branch official who first signed off on the recommendation the ATF could not regulate the Slide Fire.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)7. That entry isnt in response to Trump's tweet which isnt "mostly true" but rather "completely false"
Trump tweeted that the "Obama Administration legalized bump stocks" which they did not do.