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ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. The Don expected the role of president to be a sinecure
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:01 PM
Mar 2018

Damnit, why didn't Obama just set everything up so all I had to do was play golf and eat ice cream?!

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
3. The Don said a lot of things. That one was just another jab at Obama
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:09 PM
Mar 2018

And really, was he talking about working at being president or with his own investments?

underpants

(182,839 posts)
6. Politifact - Mostly True. But it was more of not being able to prohibit it not actually approving it
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:22 PM
Mar 2018
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 wasn’t an approval, but rather a determination that current law didn’t 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 wouldn’t have been approved in any other administration, and that’s 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"
Fri Mar 23, 2018, 06:25 PM
Mar 2018

Trump tweeted that the "Obama Administration legalized bump stocks" which they did not do.

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