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Council on Foreign Relations pushes executive gun controls
http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/03/council-on-foreign-relations-pushes-executive-gun-controls/ ^ | 3 August, 2013 | NA

Posted on 08/12/2013 11:34:19 AM PDT by marktwain

Following in the well-worn footsteps of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Blueprint for Federal Action on Illegal Guns, this week the Council on Foreign Relations released a memo urging the Obama administration to disregard the will of the American people and Congress and unilaterally enact a series of gun controls. Entitled, A Strategy to Reduce Gun Trafficking and Violence in the Americas, and written by CFR Senior Fellow for Latin American Studies, Julia F. Sweig, the memo pins the ills of Central and South America on U.S. gun owners and urges the president to curb our rights to cure them.

Leading off CFR’s wish list is a call to expand the current semi-auto rifle reporting scheme nationwide. Since 2010, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has required that all firearms dealers in the Southwest border states report to it the sale to one purchaser within a five-day period of two or more semiautomatic center-fire rifles of a caliber greater than .22. The result of this program is the registration of gun owners who choose to purchase more than one firearm at a time and significant additional paperwork burdens for dealers.

In the Gun Control Act of 1968, Congress specifically limited a reporting scheme of this type to the sale of handguns. However, BATFE enacted the current requirement by twisting a procedure originally intended by Congress to allow the agency to query dealer records for legitimate and limited criminal investigations; the demand letter. Attempts by NRA to bind BATFE to their congressionally authorized functions through litigation on this issue have been unsuccessful, and to further expand the program would even more egregiously divorce BATFE’s abuse of the demand letter process from any notion of Congressional authority.

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1 posted on 08/12/2013 11:34:19 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain
Instead of playing defense on gun control, we should go on the offense.

Gun control advocates are eating away at the second amendment incrementally. By going on offense we could reverse the process.

2 posted on 08/12/2013 11:43:02 AM PDT by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: marktwain

I don’t know whether CFR members care about making friends with the downscale rabble, but they do influence people. Fred Thompson was a chairman.


3 posted on 08/12/2013 11:44:01 AM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

Any politician running for election tied to the CFR is an automatic NO for me


4 posted on 08/12/2013 11:48:54 AM PDT by rstrahan
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To: oldbrowser

>>By going on offense we could reverse the process<<

Tawk like that could get’cha a visit around 3am.


5 posted on 08/12/2013 11:49:46 AM PDT by servantboy777
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To: marktwain

They’re still trying to pretend they didn’t get caught red-handed in Fast and Furious.


6 posted on 08/12/2013 11:52:55 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: marktwain

They do have great influence but no one who has a brain considers the CFR as friendly. They should all be imprisoned for activities undermining the United States of America!


7 posted on 08/12/2013 11:54:01 AM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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8 posted on 08/12/2013 11:55:41 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: marktwain; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don’t add you to the list...

9 posted on 08/12/2013 11:58:20 AM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? Soon we'll have both!)
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To: marktwain
But will this play in Peoria Chicago?
10 posted on 08/12/2013 12:00:49 PM PDT by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: marktwain

The New World Order wants what they want and they want it NOW, no matter what the cost.

Time is running out. Do they win? Probably


11 posted on 08/12/2013 12:03:29 PM PDT by dforest (BR)
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To: marktwain
The CFR douchebag needs some ventilation for his brain... you can tell he's overheating, and about to get spastic and hysterical.

8^)

12 posted on 08/12/2013 12:05:20 PM PDT by Gargantua ("Da amber lamps. Bring dem..." LMFFAO!!!!)
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To: marktwain

Linkee no workee.


13 posted on 08/12/2013 12:06:10 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

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14 posted on 08/12/2013 12:08:09 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: marktwain; All

This one should work:

http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/03/council-on-foreign-relations-pushes-executive-gun-controls

This one worked when I tried it.


15 posted on 08/12/2013 12:21:39 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: BatGuano

“They should all be imprisoned...”

Starting with that gun-grabbing idiot Julia F. Swine.


16 posted on 08/12/2013 12:31:54 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms should be a chain of convenience stores.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

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17 posted on 08/12/2013 12:38:24 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: marktwain

So now American gun owners are responsible for the “ills of South and Central America.” I’d get a belly laugh out of seeing how the lefties managed to connect THOSE dots.


18 posted on 08/12/2013 12:43:37 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: marktwain

More Free Trader Commie Globalist nonsense

The CFR is no friend to conservative Americans


19 posted on 08/12/2013 12:57:02 PM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Difference between George Zimmerman and Al Sharpton is that Sharpton woulda let honky family burn)
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To: marktwain

The CFR is an Agenda 21 backer!!!


20 posted on 08/12/2013 1:33:11 PM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: oldbrowser
"Instead of playing defense on gun control, we should go on the offense."

Amen! Not just on gun control, but all issues...taxes, the IRS, NSA spying on law abiding American citizens, stopping the homo agenda, ending the homosexualization of our schools, stopping amnesty for illegal scumbag aliens, energy independence, justice for the Americans killed in Benghazi, justice for Brian Terry, and on and on...

Let's get up off our a**es, turn off the TV, and go on the offense...by that I mean get out in the streets, in the City Hall chambers, pound on the doors of our state legislators, start talking with our neighbors and co-workers about those issues we haven't dared to talk about in the past, etc. Break some eggs and make some omlettes, people!

Sorry...rant off...for now.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

21 posted on 08/12/2013 1:48:59 PM PDT by wku man (Amnesty? No Way, Jose (No Se Puede!) by 10 Pound Test http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsTUQ8yOI2c)
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To: rstrahan

Any politician running for election tied to the CFR is an automatic NO for me

Well that sure narrows the field


22 posted on 08/12/2013 1:56:18 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: marktwain

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the CFR doesn’t need friends. They’re part of the Global Marxist Elites that control everything.


23 posted on 08/12/2013 2:18:09 PM PDT by Rich21IE
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To: marktwain

Ridicule them. These golf clap people need it.


24 posted on 08/12/2013 3:05:55 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: rstrahan

Any politician running for election tied to the CFR is an automatic NO for me

When the AR II comes to being, I suspect being a member of the CFR will be a hanging offense....


25 posted on 08/12/2013 3:14:10 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: SeminoleCounty

More Free Trader Commie Globalist nonsense

The CFR is no friend to conservative Americans

Free trade would work wonderfully if every country was like canada or the USA....

But they are NOT and so free trade screws all sorts of things up and the people in power use it to leverage themselves more power....


26 posted on 08/12/2013 3:15:26 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Rich21IE

Sorry to burst your bubble, but the CFR doesn’t need friends. They’re part of the Global Marxist Elites that control everything.

Global Marxist Elites that control everything?

or

Global Elites who use Marxism as a tool to control everything?

There is a subtle but definate difference between the two....


27 posted on 08/12/2013 3:16:36 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: SeminoleCounty

CFR: Crushing Firearm Rights


28 posted on 08/12/2013 4:19:47 PM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: marktwain
For NWOrderists and globullists...only jackboots can have firearms. Otherwise, it's a bit difficult for their little take control operations.


29 posted on 08/12/2013 4:40:49 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD? Psalm 112)
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30 posted on 08/12/2013 4:43:21 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD? Psalm 112)
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To: null and void

The Woolworth gun! Wonder how much they’re worth today.


31 posted on 08/12/2013 5:07:52 PM PDT by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: Lady Jag

What price freedom?


32 posted on 08/12/2013 5:10:46 PM PDT by null and void (Frequent terrorist attacks OR endless government snooping and oppression? Soon we'll have both!)
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To: familyop

Don’t you understand that Fred was part of the Tennessee GOPe mentored by the likes of Howard Baker and Lamar Alexander.


33 posted on 08/12/2013 5:12:18 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Nextrush

Yes, I understood that. Others like them and their friends in that other Party have regulated against American production in nearly every locale, broken American families and handed us to foreign nations of their favorite resorts for decades—all for the unhealthy desires of the few around them in their little spheres of perception. They’re vain and out of touch with reality.


34 posted on 08/12/2013 5:22:13 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: familyop

I apologize for coming on strong in my post.

I have posted repeatedly that over 90 percent of the folks we elect as Republicans are fake and phony.

The business and political elites work to build “order” in the world with the EU, North American Union, African Union and the list goes on up to and including the United Nations.

Elitists run as fake conservatives and get elected.

I’m not going along with business as usual anymore period.

I will not vote for RINO’s under any circumstances.


35 posted on 08/12/2013 5:53:05 PM PDT by Nextrush (A BALANCED BUDGET NOW AND PRESIDENT SARAH PALIN ARE AT THE TOP OF MY LIST)
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To: Nextrush

Well said.


36 posted on 08/12/2013 6:14:48 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: null and void; All



Give


37 posted on 08/12/2013 6:43:27 PM PDT by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: GraceG

Based upon my reading and research, the Marxist element of the Global Elites is definitly in charge of setting the global social policy agenda. The USSR may be gone, but the Marxists in the US have never abandoned their efforts and they appear to be making great strides here.

As I understand the Global Elites, they are comprised of several different interest factions and it might be accurate to say that the Marxists are a tool used by the hierarchy to acieve its goal of One World Governance. The Marxists offer something to the Elites that no one else does. They offer maximum social control and that will lead, ultimately, to population reduction and growth control. It appears that for all practical purposes, the Marxist/Fascist elements have merged thus giving the Marxists the cover of having adopted the Corporatist-State, Centrally Planed Control Economy model.

In the end of course, its all about money and power and control.


38 posted on 08/13/2013 7:05:35 AM PDT by Rich21IE
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