Washington, D.C. Attorney General Irving Nathan announced on Friday that David Gregory would NOT be charged for possession of a 30 round magazine that was illegal under D.C. law.

No charges over NBC ammo clip display - CNN.com

Nathan was appointed by President Obama and could be replaced at any time.

How can a magazine ban be in the works if the President himself will not enforce an existing ban?

Must be that there are not the votes to get it through Congress and a determination has been made that an Executive Order will not work.


I am not looking for replies criticizing individual politicians or comments about hypocrisy and two-facedness.

This is simply an observation that it looks like a magazine ban is not in the works.


It might, however, foreshadow a ban on semiautomatic guns that can accept large capacity magazines

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Seems like I read some where they determined it was not a magazine but a hollow shell.

I think if there was a hollow shell,

IT WAS THE NBC MODERATOR.

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No mention of this in the article.
Seems like an exercise of prosecutorial discretion.

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A total crock of ****.
If any one of us had done that we would have been arrested and prosecuted.
But then, what do you expect out of D.C.?

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Wouldn't matter. Under the ban there (one of the worst), it doesn't even have to be functional. If it can be assembled or modified into a functional magazine, you are just as guilty as if you possessed a working mag.

Unless you are David Gregory . . .

Oh, and I watched the vid and it did NOT look like an empty mag body to me.


ETA: Although it might have been by the time it was officially 'examined.'

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It's always nice to see such blatant displays of double standards, just as a reminder of how rampant they are. Check your privilege.

As I recall from the other article I read, it belonged to somebody who lived outside of D.C. (and was an actually functional mag). So they also had to smuggle it in and out...