Posted on 04/23/2013 4:17:08 PM PDT by SatinDoll
Over the course of the last month, while Americans were distracted with the threat of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula and the devastation wrought by the Boston bombings, President Obama was quietly working behind the scenes to craft laws and regulations that will further erode the Second Amendment.
Congress, and thus We the People, may have unequivocally rejected federal legislation in March which aimed to outlaw most semi-automatic rifles, restrict magazine capacity, and force national registration, but that didn’t stop the President from ceding regulatory control over firearms importation to the United Nations just two weeks later. What the UN Arms Trade Treaty, passed without media fanfare by 154 counties, would do is to restrict the global trade of, among other things, small arms and light weapons. Opponents of the treaty argue that loopholes within the new international framework for global gun control may make it illegal for Americans to purchase and import firearms manufactured outside of the United States.
To further his gun-grabbing agenda, however, President Obama and his administration didn’t stop there.
Now they’re taking another significant step against Americans’ right to bear arms – and they’re doing it through Presidential Executive Action, a strategy that, once again, bypasses Congressional oversight and the legislative process.
…it appears that the BHO Administration is taking executive action on firearms importation. Take a few minutes to read this: After Senate setback, Obama quietly moving forward with gun regulation. Here is the key portion of the article:
“The Importation of Defense Articles and Defense Services — U.S. Munitions Import List references executive orders, amends ATF regulations and clarifies Attorney General authority “to designate defense articles and defense services as part of the statutory USML for purposes of permanent import controls,” among other clauses specified in heavy legalese requiring commensurate analysis to identify just what the administration’s intentions are. Among the speculations of what this could enable are concerns that importing and International Traffic in Arms Regulations [ITAR] may go forward to reflect key elements within the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.”[Emphasis added.]
Depending on how it is implemented, the implications of this change could be huge. With the stroke a of a pen and without the consent of Congress, ATF bureaucrats could make ANY gun part or accessory (including magazines) or ammunition that were originally manufactured or perhaps even those designed for military use no longer legal for importation for civilian use. That might mean no more milsurp parts sets. No more milsurp magazines. No more milsurp ammo. No more milsurp optics. Perhaps not even spare firing pins. This could be ugly.
I strongly recommend that you stock up on magazines, ammunition and spare parts for any of your imported military pattern guns, as soon as possible! Once an import ban is implemented, prices will skyrocket.
Source: James Rawles’ Survival Blog via The Prepper Website
Just five days ago the President vowed to push forward on gun control without Congress and Nancy Pelosi argued that no matter what Congress says, gun control is inevitable.
This latest round of Executive Actions is what they meant.
A direct on attack on the second amendment is difficult if not impossible, so they are trying to slither their way in through the backdoor by restricting international trade so we can’t import new firearms, by restricting access to accessories and gun parts, by heavily taxing ammunition and gun purchases, by mandating policies like forcing gun owners to have liability insurance, and of course, by identifying potentially dangerous gun owners and simply taking their firearms because of public safety concerns.
The President recently suggested that the American people have spoken, and that they want guns to be restricted, banned and heavily regulated.
If that’s so, then how is that a bipartisan Congress overwhelmingly rejected the President’s bid to restrict and outlaw private ownership of millions of weapons and gun accessories?
Going through the United Nations and now implementing Executive Actions to bypass America’s Constitutionally mandated system of checks and balances is an act of desperation.
Those who would take our rights have been left with no choice but to try and force their agenda upon us through dictatorial means.
federal law is pretty clear about when a person loses their RKBA because of mental ullness. A script for xanex or elavil or whatever doesn’t preclude firesrm ownership. You have to be declared mentally incompetent by a court and/or be committed to a mental hospital. I think it has to be involuntarily too.
As I have posted before, imported ammo has been sitting in containers on docks for a log time. Obama has already been doing this via Customs. This is one of the big reasons for the shortage. I wonder of there is litigation that has been moving through the legal system and Obama has to do something like this now.
***That might mean no more milsurp parts sets. No more milsurp magazines. No more milsurp ammo. No more milsurp optics. Perhaps not even spare firing pins. This could be ugly. ****
again reminds me of the 1968 Gun Control Law which banned the import of 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifles and and handguns, ammo, and small foreign made handguns. They also banned military “armaments”.
A TULSA gun shop was raided by the ATF because they were in violation because they imported....FLINTLOCK gun flints!
****It sucks, but we have lived through this kind of thing before.
When? My memory isn’t what it used to be. ****
Post 1968 after that travesty the 1968 Gun Control Law was passed.
Can an EO that effects commerce be legal?
The VA right now, today, can determine on their own a Vet cannot have a firearm.
What you say is the way it was BEFORE HUSSEIN. Hussein now gives a state money to encourage doctors to send medical records to the BATF. It will be the BATF and/or Holder that will make that decision by themselves. It will happen. I read the subject matter he was going to put in every executive order he was going to write to get control of guns and magazines and ammo..
Maybe Obama should halt the import of Muslims.
What is undoubtedly the worst president in the entire history of the United States, coupled with the most incompetent staff of addled Marxist ideologues ever assembled, are doing everything they possibly can to f*ck with gun owners - and just about everyone else on the right/conservative end of the spectrum, as well.
In December 2008 I wrote:
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Welcome to New Kenya (Africa USA).
Where the law of the Jungle replaced the Law of the Land.
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4 posted on Tue 09 Dec 2008 09:55:41 AM CST by Texas Fossil
Closer to 23%
Maybe we the people will export Won.
I can’t imagine anything that will sell more domestically produce ammo than an importation ban. Some gun owners will insist on having a mountain of ammo on hand before they stop buying.
Maybe we will treat him like Mel Zelaya in Honduras, pick him up in the middle of the night in a helicopter, fly him to the border an dump him off in a foreign country in his PJ’s.
Don't forget Bill Bennett was in on the gun import ban too.
He's a narcissistic liar.
Yes, I remember Bill Bennett’s role back then. The 1989 Semi-Auto Import Ban was also given some political cover by the domestic gun manufacturers who supported limiting the competition. I’ve always suspected that Bill Ruger’s policy on magazine capacity was somehow tied to this.
Congress can stop these executive orders.
As I noted in previous comments, some of this became law in 1968. It all comes down to BATF policies, which in turn come down to what the President tells that agency to do.
all true but still, it’s unprecedented and beyond the scope of his power. He can and will be challenged in court and beaten. The first of many expected lawsuits was just filed against the VA yesterday by the United States Justice Foundation btw. It will be a long, interesting, and very public fight.
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