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Report: WH looking at 'broad options'

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:34 pm
by terryg
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/ ... 8520130106" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

"To sell such changes, the White House is developing strategies to work around the National Rifle Association (NRA), the powerful gun lobby.

They include rallying support from Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other gun retailers for measures that would benefit their businesses, the Post said."

Interesting twist ... what kind of bone would they try to throw to Wal-mart and Academy?

Re: Report: WH looking at 'broad options'

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:38 pm
by baldeagle
This is encouraging.
Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, an NRA member, said on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopolous" that the reported proposals were "way in extreme" and would not pass.

Re: Report: WH looking at 'broad options'

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:42 pm
by 77346
terryg wrote:Interesting twist ... what kind of bone would they try to throw to Wal-mart and Academy?
How about "don't sell that stuff or else we'll throw the IRS, ICE, FBI, EPA, etc. at you and we'll find something to shut you down."

I really don't know...

Re: Report: WH looking at 'broad options'

Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:49 pm
by Capt Jeff
That's been done before by this administration.

Chicago-land thug politics at their finest. :mad5