You implied that foreign funds had been used for political purposes. I'm telling you that's false. If you're insinuating that I'm lying, fine.
I disagree. We have two more pro-gun SCOTUS justices and 100 lower court judges who would have been appointed by Clinton, but for Trump. Pro-gun regulatory action was effectively limited by not having an ATF director. If you see a confirmed director in the near future, that means a regulatory agenda is more possible.
Trump didn't use an executive order to ban bump stocks. ATF promulgated a regulation in compliance with the Administrative Procedures Act. While we opposed the proposed and final regulations(I even wrote these comments that make that very clear), in terms of precedent, if anything this makes it more difficult to administratively ban items as "machineguns." In the past, ATF has simply reclassified items based on administrative fiat with no attempt to comply with the APA. They did so with what is arguably the first "bump stock." https://law.justia.com/cases/federal...011-02-28.html Even though they made no attempt to promulgate a new rule, a favorable panel of the 11th. Circuit Court of Appeals still upheld the reclassification. I know I've explained in other threads that this is why we made the internal decision not to pursue litigation over the final rule.
The president and other Republicans can't automatically get us the 60 votes needed in the Senate. The only thing likely to shake out national reciprocity (other than somehow getting to 60 pro-gun votes in the Senate) is winning Rogers v. Grewal https://www.supremecourt.gov/Search....%5C18-824.html
If Congress is just normalizing what is already legal in every state, it will be a much easier lift to get to 60 votes.
The things that they can do (appointments) they are doing at an unprecedented rate. Trump has substantially transformed the federal judiciary in a single term.
With the opposition candidates for president already racing to see who will support a ban on the most guns, who are we supposed to support as an alternative?