Just heard this on CNN, imported assault weapons

[Texasrpbrock]

No more CZs will not make me a happy camper.

 

[JohnKSa]

There was no executive order. The Bush administration banned those guns from import under the "sporting purposes" clause of the GCA 1968: No executive order was required.

The banning of importation of Chinese arms & ammo was done by executive order. It was done by Clinton, not Bush. It had nothing to do with the GCA of 1968, it was done, ostensibly, as part of sanctions, penalizing China for the Tianenmen incident.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19940526&slug=1912502

"While renewing trade benefits, Clinton plans to ban the importation of Chinese assault weapons to the United States, administration and congressional officials said yesterday.
...
ut China exports more than $31 billion in products to the United States, and the guns and ammunition that would be affected by sanctions make up only a tiny share of these sales."​

http://articles.philly.com/1994-05-27/news/25827104_1_human-rights-mfn-trade-privileges/2

"To prod China directly on its human rights abuses, Clinton offered only mild penalties. He said he would continue limited sanctions imposed on Beijing after the 1989 dissident uprising and would ban the import of guns and ammunition from China.

Clinton's decision to block the sale of Chinese guns and ammunition will be of little economic consequence to China. According to some estimates, gun sales amount to less than $100 million of the $22 billion that China sold to the United States last year."​

http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPa...ndle=hein.journals/dsptch11&div=176&id=&page=

President Clinton

From his opening statement at a news conference, Washington, DC, May 26, 1994.

"In view of the continuing human rights abuses, I am extending the sanctions imposed by the United States as a result of the events in Tianenmen Square, and I am also banning the import of munitions, principally guns and ammunition, from China."​

Furthermore, it's common knowledge that the import restriction was imposed by Clinton.

http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=4000791&postcount=59

The ban on Chinese guns and ammo is the result of an administrative action by Bill Clinton.