Executive Order

[RHaskins]

 If I'm right, the President can stop the importation of guns and ammo by executive order. Does any one know what else he could ban (gun wise) or where I could find this information?

Thanks
Randy

[Pathfinder]

If I'm right, the President can stop the importation of guns and ammo by executive order. Does any one know what else he could ban (gun wise) or where I could find this information?

Thanks
Randy

Given that FDR imprisoned American citizens with an EO, I would guess b-ho could pretty much do anything he wanted to. Expect it. And revisions to the BATFE operating instructions as well - who the hell needs laws when you already have a lawless gang ready willing and able to do your bidding.

And yes, I know, FDR's order was overturned on Constitutional grounds. But it was how many years later? 2? 3? He still did it and it got done. Look to Katrina/NO - how many people still do not have their weapons back, and it's been 3 years as well. Think the cops that stole them will willingly give them back?

[runstowin]

It might be covered under this

Though few Americans realize it, Cheney and Rumsfeld worked through the 1980s and 1990s on emergency nuclear-response plans which allegedly suspended the American constitution and also Congress.[1] (Through these decades Rumsfeld was CEO of a major pharmaceutical firm, and in the later 1990s Cheney was CEO of Halliburton; but their private status did not deter them from continuing to exercise a supra-constitutional planning power conferred on them by Ronald Reagan.)

 

Even fewer Americans know that these rules, originally dealing with a nuclear attack on America, were extended by Reagan Executive Order 12656 to cover “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”[2] And few Americans realize that at least some of these rules, known technically as Continuity of Government or COG rules, were invoked before 10:00 AM on September 11, 2001.[3]

 

As he did in 2007, President Bush has again, on August 28, 2008, continued for another year the national emergency first officially proclaimed on September 14, 2001, along with “the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency:”

 

Notice: Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Certain Terrorist Attacks

 

Consistent with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, in Proclamation 7463, with respect to the terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center, New York, New York, the Pentagon, and aboard United Airlines flight 93, and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on the United States.

 

Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14, 2001, and the powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond September 14, 2008. Therefore, I am continuing in effect for an additional year the national emergency I declared on September 14, 2001, with respect to the terrorist threat.

 

This notice shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the Congress.

 

GEORGE W. BUSH

THE WHITE HOUSE,

August 28, 2008.[4]

[tombogan03884]

Actually this was started by carter.