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Obama weighs expanding background checks through executive authority
wapo ^ | Oct 8 | Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 10/09/2015 3:16:07 PM PDT by Cheerio

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To: Cheerio

Congress needs to pass a law stripping him of executive privilege.


21 posted on 10/09/2015 3:59:36 PM PDT by ZULU (Mt. McKinley is the tallest mountain in N. America. Denali is Aleut for "scam artist.")
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To: Kenny

Click on my name and then click on in forum. There is a lot of coverage.

Go Oregon!!


22 posted on 10/09/2015 4:03:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: ZULU

That’s not executive privilege. It’s Halfrican privilege.


23 posted on 10/09/2015 4:06:05 PM PDT by peyton randolph (I am not a number. I am a free man.)
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To: Kenny

Not a thing other than mention on talk radio 00 and 30 news where they were saying there might me up to 8,000 at the ANTI-OBIE rally. Haven’t checked internet since noon


24 posted on 10/09/2015 4:13:40 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Kenny

Our local Fox channel did several clips of the protesters.


25 posted on 10/09/2015 4:25:19 PM PDT by bog trotter
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To: Cheerio
They were talking about this on Fox News earlier, supposedly Obama actually wanted to do this right after Newtown, but the ATF flat out told him it was pointless and would be utterly unenforceable, so he backed off.

The fact of the matter is if your are selling 50+ guns a year you already are, in all likelihood, a licensed firearms dealer, and since most people who sell guns to friends on a casual basis typically don't keep records of those sales, it would be virtually impossible for the ATF to track down every gun sale you made and PROVE you sold 51 guns in a year and would therefore now be covered by the new executive order...or you only sold 49 and did not.

26 posted on 10/09/2015 5:18:40 PM PDT by apillar
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To: Cheerio

No rational person who has been paying attention the last 7 years believes Obama is still “weighing” unilateral and unconstitutional action to implement more gun control laws.

It is a certainty that he has already made the decision to do it and the written plan sits on his desk ready to go while he waits for the most politically opportune time to make his move.

We are going to go through a massive S**t Storm of never ending Obama illegal and unconstitutional acts in the next 15 months and not one of the spineless ba****ds sitting in congress will do a thing about it.


27 posted on 10/09/2015 5:18:56 PM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Cheerio

My bet is that he uses the pretense of “background checks” to dictate Federal access to the 4473’s.


28 posted on 10/09/2015 5:20:35 PM PDT by G Larry (Vote Hillary! Pro-Abortion Socialist)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

give me time and date,and I’ll be there


29 posted on 10/09/2015 5:35:25 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: Iron Munro
I was listening to my most un-favorite talker the other day and he had a caller that was blasting the Congress for their inaction and the caller said Obie should have been impeached 5 years ago for his lawlessness. M Meds went off his rocker and demanded the caller "Name one high crime or misdemeanor" that Obama has committed"

If this is what passes for conservatism in 2015 then yes Teddie I am a right wing wacko bird and proud of it. It is hopeless with folk like this on the airwaves pronouncing how conservative they are.
30 posted on 10/09/2015 5:35:50 PM PDT by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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To: Cheerio

If he does this, and if the Republicans let him, once more, get away with it, we are growing closer to electing Donald Trump. Don’t those in Washington realize what Trump’s popularity is all about?

People are sick of the valedictorian(blabbermouth) and his presidential mandates which are in violation of the Constitution. Executive authority does not extend to writing laws, which by the way, is what he is doing.


31 posted on 10/09/2015 6:14:09 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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Is that not already the law? Don’t they need a CFL? How is this different from what’s already on the books?

Under the proposed rule change, dealers who exceed a certain number of sales each year would be required to obtain a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and perform background checks on potential buyers.

I'm trying to figure that out too. Anyone who sells firearms for a living must have an FFL no matter how many or how few guns they sell. Everyone who has an FFL must do a NICs background on every sale they make. The only exception being antique firearms as defined by the ATF.

Am I mistaken about this? Am I missing something else?

32 posted on 10/09/2015 6:19:36 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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To: Cheerio

Drip, drip, drip . . . When does the point of confiscation come? That’s the end point for Obama and Clinton.


33 posted on 10/09/2015 7:04:28 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: TigersEye

FFL, that’s it. :-)


34 posted on 10/09/2015 7:07:23 PM PDT by Theo (May Christ be exalted above all.)
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When does the point of confiscation come?

I sent my plan to Mayor Emanuel in Chicago as the murder rate surged. Deputize the Million Moms for Gun Sense, team them with Baraq's ATF agents, and send them into the Chicago 'hood to clean up the illegal guns.

35 posted on 10/09/2015 7:07:47 PM PDT by nascarnation
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They are far, far more likely to come after your gun and mine (legally purchased) than to ever enter the “hood”.


36 posted on 10/09/2015 7:18:19 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: Theo

Not a problem. There are too many acronyms these days. :-)

I guess no one is going to clear up our confusion about background checks.


37 posted on 10/09/2015 9:10:58 PM PDT by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason and rule of law. Prepare!)
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