WI: HW Bush vetoed the Gun-Free School Zones Act

Bush would be insane to veto such a law. Clinton could turn the tables on the Republicans after the Dukakis debacle and attack Bush for being soft on crime. Further, Bush would be seen as uncaring toward children and victims of violent crime. He still loses in 1992, but by an even bigger popular vote margin than OTL.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun-Free_School_Zones_Act_of_1990

Would Bush's veto be overriden? Would guns be seen differently throughout the 90s and 00s?

Poppy Bush was already on his way to being seen as very anti-gun, after in 1988, wrote a letter to the NRA promising his opposition to waiting periods, gun bans, gun registration, and any other type of gun control, while reports on Dukakis anti-gun views pushed by Lee Atwater in Democratic Areas that were not keen on gun controls, like rural Michigan and Pennsylvania. He also bought into becoming a 'Life' Member of the NRA.

So it helped in a few areas for his election

But almost immediately went against the NRA once in office, supporting a temporary import ban on Assault Weapons, and went on record that he would ban domestic manufacture of similar firearms, and made the import ban permanent, and proposed a ban on magazines holding more than 15 rounds, and Federal Registration of all firearms. Then voicing support for the Brady Act and it's waiting periods

So the NRA and other Gun Owners were sure that he just lied to them about stopping gun control, when he had done more than the other presidents combined since LBJ and the 1968 GCA.

Then you add in his administration pushing for increased police powers, and the Randy Weaver fiasco, was shown that his pro-gun views was just a Lee Atwater scam, and NRA members vowed that he would get zero help in 1992 for reelection.

So it would have been a bit out of character for Poppy to veto the Zones act, when everything he did was to weaken the 2nd and 4th Amendment protections of Americans.

NRA would have seen that as a little late, considering all what he had been doing in 1989 and 1990 against them.
 
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