The pesident is fired up to take away our gun rights

[BjornF16]

I'm fully behind abandoning "party loyalty"…no one should vote for someone due to party affiliation, particularly regarding 2A issues. But I will say this…no democrat will EVER get my vote in ANY election (just look at Manchin and his support of anti 2A issues, not to mention how he empowers prince harry).

But I will also say this: Reagan turned this country around and while he wasn't the perfect president (is there such a one?) his positives outweigh his negatives. His one "sin" against the 2A in hindsight was signing FOPA, which actually had quite a lot of good in it and was supported by the gun lobby (MG ban notwithstanding). In his later years (well into his illness), he "wrote" a letter to some congressmen urging them to support Clinton's ban. I'll write that one off to manipulation of an elderly statesman...

Once again, Reagan did NOT sign ANY executive order banning weapons importation. The Purdy shooting occurred on January 17, 1989 (days before Reagan left office). It was H.W. Bush who signed the AW importation executive order.

The multiple murders at Stockton received national news coverage and spurred calls for regulation of semi-automatic weapons. "Why could Purdy, an alcoholic who had been arrested for such offenses as selling weapons and attempted robbery, walk into a gun shop in Sandy, Oregon, and leave with an AK-47 under his arm?" Time magazine asked. They continued, "The easy availability of weapons like this, which have no purpose other than killing human beings, can all too readily turn the delusions of sick gunmen into tragic nightmares."[1] Purdy was able to purchase the weapons because the judicial system had not convicted him of any crime that prevented him from purchasing firearms. Neither had Purdy been adjudicated mentally ill, another disqualifying factor.[16]
In California, measures were taken to first define and then ban assault weapons, resulting in the Roberti-Roos Assault Weapons Control Act of 1989. On the Federal level, Congress struggled with a way to ban weapons like Purdy's aesthetically military-style rifle without being seen to also ban more sporting-looking rifles. Later in 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed an executive order (the Semi-Automatic Assault Rifle Ban) banning importation of assault weapons. The Federal assault weapons ban was enacted in 1994, and expired in 2004. President Bill Clinton signed another executive order in 1994 which banned importation of most firearms and ammunition from China.[17]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_School_massacre