Posted on 02/23/2010 6:01:16 PM PST by reaganaut1
When President Obama took office, gun rights advocates sounded the alarm, warning that he intended to strip them of their arms and ammunition.
And yet the opposite is happening. Mr. Obama has been largely silent on the issue while states are engaged in a new and largely successful push for expanded gun rights, even passing measures that have been rejected in the past.
In Virginia, the General Assembly approved a bill last week that allows people to carry concealed weapons in bars and restaurants that serve alcohol, and the House of Delegates voted to repeal a 17-year-old ban on buying more than one handgun a month. The actions came less than three years after the shootings at Virginia Tech that claimed 33 lives and prompted a major national push for increased gun control.
Arizona and Wyoming lawmakers are considering nearly a half dozen pro-gun measures, including one that would allow residents to carry concealed weapons without a permit. And lawmakers in Montana and Tennessee passed measures last year — the first of their kind — to exempt their states from federal regulation of firearms and ammunition that are made, sold and used in state. Similar bills have been proposed in at least three other states.
In the meantime, gun control advocates say, Mr. Obama has failed to deliver on campaign promises to close a loophole that allows unlicensed dealers at gun shows to sell firearms without background checks; to revive the assault weapons ban; and to push states to release data about guns used in crimes.
He also signed bills last year allowing guns to be carried in national parks and in luggage on Amtrak trains.
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LMAO,
Why, yes it was.
Damn!
Are you the guy that zotted all my rifles? I had just replaced all the ones I lost in the boating accident.
No, no, no, no, no! Private citizens, not "unlicensed dealers". The whole reason they don't have to conduct background checks is they're not firearms dealers. Private citizens, for whom selling firearms is not a livelihood, don't have to conduct background checks if they sell their guns in the classifieds, to a co-worker, to their hunting buddy, to their neighbor, or at a friggin' gun show!
Of course, consider the source...the Jason Blair Times.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I’m really sorry about that – would it make you feel any better to know that it Zotted ALL the guns in my neighborhood?
(And some of them had just rented boats for the weekend)
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