Posted on 08/29/2013 7:43:18 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Washington -- President Barack Obama's administration today said it would take new executive action toward gun control, acting on issues that Congress failed to address through legislation.
The White House had promised big city mayors in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that it would take its own action on gun control.
The new steps would curb the import of military surplus weapons and close an obscure loophole that allows felons and others to register guns to corporations as a way to avoid background checks.
Vice President Joe Biden, who has led administration efforts on gun control, is expected to outline the plan at the White House today.
The executive actions are part of a list of 23 steps the White House said the president could take to reduce gun violence in the absence of any legislative initiatives passed by Congress.
Disallowing importation of military surplus weapons should go a long way toward totally eliminating shooting deaths in places like Chicago when the perp is using a WWII Soviet Mosin Nagant or German Mauser.
The king speaks again.
Oh I dunno,
the communist plant?
Emperor Obie's stated objective is not really his desired endstate...
He is just creating windfall profits for anyone with a stockpile of imported military surplus rifles.
That was also something implied, I believe.
Since BATFE falls under the Executive branch, Obama can change the rules at his whim with little oversight. I’m thinking that C&R FFLs will be next.
Ditto!
That fear is a rare glimmer of intelligence from an otherwise clueless community organizer.
Any laws made by imperial decree do NOT have to be obeyed if they are against the Constitution.
By the way, shouldn’t the POTUS have been impeached by now????
“...I wish they’d just come out and...”
They won’t do that, yet. They’re Fabian socialists. Death of a thousand cuts.
Oh, they may make an example here and there out of some “paramilitary White Supremacist” or “Separatist” or whatever cute little euphemism they come up with... but they know damn right well a mass confiscation would lead to a shooting war.
So they’ll do it this way, a little at a time and use phony distractions like Syria and other media manufactured and supported “crisis” to mask it.
What is the government gearing up for?
Some broken glass nights?
Some Juden armpatches and patches with Crosses on them?
Does this new edict apply to the US government?
What is the government gearing up for?
Some broken glass nights?
Some Juden armpatches and patches with Crosses on them?
NUTS!!!!
The imperial president strikes again.
Banning and Restricting Law Abiding Gun Owners under the cover of a Syrian Night...
Mausers, Mosin Nagants, and legally-registered machine guns are used in so few crimes that it's effectively statistical noise.
Last I read, the most common weapon associated with homicides is a .38 caliber revolver, and the most common shooter description is someone who looks just like Obama's son. If he had a son.
This will have zero effect on the urban shooting pandemic, which should be obvious to anyone with two neurons that are in close proximity. The price of Mausers and Mosin Nagants should go up on the online auction sites today.
My thought is that he promised his low-information voters that he would "do something", no matter how stupid and meaningless the gesture.
Despot Monarch Dictatorship.
Will this FINALLY be the last straw or will Constitution loving Americans prove they have no back to break and just capitulate to the abuse of power by our dictator, the Prophet Obunghole.
I am still trying to find the wiggle room in “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED” as I don’t know how I would phrase anything to be more absolute.
Yet, somehow the American people have allowed politicians at every level of government and our courts and every JBT to INFRINGE with immunity. If we had a functioning Constitution the politician arrest rate would be much higher than the average citizen. Right now, I don’t see any authority which can arrest them for treason and violating our founding documents.
DAMN! We let what people died for, be taken away without a peep.
You and me both. We cannot fire the first shot but I am getting older by the minute.
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