View Single Post
Old March 18, 2012, 11:08 AM   #10
Frank Ettin
Staff
 
Join Date: November 23, 2005
Location: California - San Francisco
Posts: 9,471
This is not firearms related.

Folks need to understand how to read an Executive Order before starting to panic.

This Executive Order is a statement of policy and instruction from the President, as the senior manager of the Executive Branch, to the organizational units that report to him. That's what all Executive Orders are.

This one provides instructions for implementing and operating under The Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. This law was originally enacted as Public Law 81-774 in 1950. It has been amended various times since then, and, as amended, remains in force. There have been a series of Executive Orders on this topic issued by prior Presidents. This one from Obama supersedes those.

The scope, extent and application of this Executive Order and limited by the the underlying statute to which it refers. And no one can know what the Executive Order really means without also reading and referring to that statute. So discussion of the Executive Order without the statute is pretty meaningless.

In any case, it's not gun related and therefore off topic.
Frank Ettin is offline  
 
Page generated in 0.03527 seconds with 8 queries