Feds Seek to Implement Unconstitutional Power Grab

Gun Owners of America ^ | NA | NA

[neverdem]

In the latest brazen attempt to circumvent the Constitution, Obama and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) are seeking to implement rules that will subject American gun dealers to even more onerous paperwork requirements. 

 

A new proposed rule will, for the first time, establish the precedent that licensed firearms dealers will be required (by administrative fiat) to report to the government the sale of two or more semi-automatic rifles that are .22 caliber or greater, can accept a detachable magazine, and are purchased by the same person within five business days.

 

In a move that bypasses the elected representatives of the people (the Congress), the new rules could be instituted by regulatory fiat as quickly as January 5, 2011.

 

This idea was concocted more than a year ago by New City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's group Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a group that only seems to focus on punishing legal gun owners.

 

Even worse, the final decision on implementing this plan will be up to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), headed by Cass Sunstein.  In 2009, GOA opposed the confirmation of Sunstein, who would like to ban hunting and allow animals to have legal representation in court.

 

This mandate will not only violate federal statutory law prohibiting a federal gun registry, it will also give the BATFE another excuse to harass American gun dealers, while doing nothing to address the problem of border violence. 

Drug cartels are financed to the tune of the billions of dollars.  They finance disposable submarines, tunnels between the two countries, and large shipments of weapons from rogue nations.  Cartels have bribed Mexican officials at the highest levels to the tune of millions of dollars, and have taken effective control of entire cities in Mexico.  To suggest that adding yet another layer of paperwork requirements to U.S. gun dealers will help to stem the violence is ludicrous.  This is simply another attempt to ratchet down on the right to keep and bear arms.

 

The Second Amendment is not the cause of border, drug-related violence.  And as violence increasingly occurs on our side of the border, Second Amendment rights become even more important for self-protection.

 

Gun Owners of America is submitting comments opposing these new rules and is urging members of Congress to slam the brakes on this proposal.

 

ACTION:  Please urge your Representative and Senators to oppose this abuse of federal power.  Click here to send a  pre-written letter that includes two specific steps that members of Congress can take immediately, and it also urges them to prepare, if necessary, to push legislation to overturn this unlawful act.

 

It is especially important for licensed gun dealers to take these actions, so please pass this alert on to your local gun store.

 

Click here to take action now!

 

© 2010 by Gun Owners of America

[neverdem]

According to pre-written, editable letter, it violates, "those portions of the McClure-Volkmer Act, (aka the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act, IIRC) prohibiting the establishment of a national gun registry."

[nolongerademocrat]

Okay, who has the plans for the ray-guns? Looks like we’ll be needing new technology.

[Logical me]

This is not just another power grab but the one part of the communists takeover of America. Everything this empire and previous Washington elite rats have done will never be repealed.

[luv2ndamend]

Since when do these UN-American scumbag, traitors care of the law or Constitution. They will push to far and the next revolution will start.

[neverdem]

More on ATF extending multiple sales reports to rifles

Here's the formal notice.(PDF)

--snip--

The core concern with the reporting is that the dealer not only logs the sale in his records, but must report it (with full description of the firearm and the purchaser) to the agency, which (it is safe to assume) computerizes it.

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Hey, new Congress.....defund these scumbags at BATF.
You guys will control the purse strings....use that power.

Defund EPA while you’re at it as a belated Christmas gift to Texas.

[lentulusgracchus]

The core concern with the reporting is that the dealer not only logs the sale in his records, but must report it (with full description of the firearm and the purchaser) to the agency, which (it is safe to assume) computerizes it.

Ah -- Obama's Enemies List. LOL. You and Dick Nixon, Bozo.

Defund ATF. Screw 'em -- shut it down. Let 'em work as mall cops for a while, while they remember whose house this is.

Then defund Obama's White House political staff. Make him put his wife to work typing letters.

[FlyingEagle]

How about a rule to require the feral gubmit to notify the affected US citizens within 5 days as soon as an illegal alien has crossed the border into the midst of the USA citizenry. Name age serial number photo and description.

[thirst4truth]

The World's Largest Army. America's Hunters? The state of Wisconsin has gone an entire deer hunting season without someone getting killed. That's great.. There were over 600,000 hunters.

Allow me to restate that number. Over the last two months, the eighth largest army in the world - more men under arms than Iran ; more than France and Germany combined - deployed to the woods of a single American state to help keep the deer menace at bay. But that pales in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of Pennsylvania this week.

Michigan 's 700,000 hunters have now returned home. Toss in a quarter million hunters in West Virginia , and it is literally the case that the hunters of those four states alone would comprise the largest army in the world.

America will forever be safe from foreign invasion of troops with that kind of home-grown firepower. Hunting - it's not just a way to fill the freezer. It's a matter of national security

Did you see this in your email lately, is it true? If true, they better tread lightly!!!

[Jerrybob]

Is any government agency more hated than the BATF and E? Especially among gun owners. Please take a minute and look at this:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2623044/posts

This is the answer; could be our last chance: DE-FUND the BATF and E.

[1010RD]

This is great news. The Obama administration just keeps on giving.

Let this get out and we'll capture even more in 2012. Gun control isn't a winning strategy for the Dems and we've got a chance to make Progressivism extinct.

It'll be known as a quirk of the 20th century.

Obama’s stuck on stupid.