Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

White House plans executive action to expand background checks for gun sales
LA Slimes ^ | December 3, 2015 | Christi Parsons

Posted on 12/03/2015 12:15:48 PM PST by Cheerio

White House officials are seeking a way to use executive authority to close the so-called gun show loophole that allows thousands of people to buy guns each year without a background check, but complicated legal issues have slowed the process.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; obama
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last
To: Cheerio

The “loophole” he wants to close is the 2nd Amendment. He believes that he has the power to deny us our constitutional rights.


21 posted on 12/03/2015 12:28:47 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants

The Missouri Ozarks are looking better and better.


22 posted on 12/03/2015 12:30:31 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio
We need background checks for voters.

Especially those who voted for Hussein, the Bitter Clinger to Islam.

23 posted on 12/03/2015 12:30:35 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio
"That work includes looking at the gun show loophole,” said one White House official involved in the work. “But taking administrative action in this space is enormously complicated, with complex and intertwined policy, legal and operational considerations to take into account."

Translation: The background check law specifically exempts private sales, including such transactions occurring at gun shows. So, the Administration can take action only by blatantly breaking the law. That's what they intend to do.

Once you break one law (immigration laws, e.g.), the rest get really easy.

24 posted on 12/03/2015 12:30:56 PM PST by centurion316 (,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

I will not comply. Your move, Barky.


25 posted on 12/03/2015 12:31:44 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

I’m going to ban unicorns.


26 posted on 12/03/2015 12:32:37 PM PST by The Toll
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

I have a better idea.

Universal background checks for PRESIDENTS...

Pretty good site here, showing graphs of homicide rates before and after gun bans, and at the bottom one comment points out that only 1% of state prison inmates got guns at gun shows.

http://crimeresearch.org/2013/12/murder-and-homicide-rates-before-and-after-gun-bans/


27 posted on 12/03/2015 12:33:01 PM PST by Paleo Pete (I'm with the bomb squad. If you see me running, CATCH UP!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

Exactly the point.


28 posted on 12/03/2015 12:33:03 PM PST by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

where is that “Jeez, not this s**t again” guy?

...and just when ammo was starting to come down in price a little bit...


29 posted on 12/03/2015 12:36:15 PM PST by QualityMan (Don't Tread on Me)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Puppage

Of course, most tables at a gun show are run by Class III dealers, and they must transact their sales with a background check. If I run into a private owner at a show who has a really nice Hall’s carbine, we can negotiate a private sale. Of course, I probably won’t want to match his price.


30 posted on 12/03/2015 12:36:25 PM PST by centurion316 (,)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

Yes, because a day after numerous folks were killed, in a likely gun free zone, we need to take away our only protection against this and other threats.

I read somewhere that the security guards in the building were not even armed (gun free zone?).

0zero, will Climate Control and Gun Control....the biggest farce for CONTROL of We the People, stop all the Jihadi Farooq’s from making ied’s and obtaining what ever else they require to kill us?

I’m so glad to see all of our elected “R” Reps are holding a LIVE presser, just like the US Branch of Hamas (aka I Don’t Care), vowing to stop 0 in his tracks, on this.


31 posted on 12/03/2015 12:36:56 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Paleo Pete

.


32 posted on 12/03/2015 12:37:32 PM PST by Jane Long (Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Don’t forget they are all crusaders.


33 posted on 12/03/2015 12:37:52 PM PST by Orlando
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Renegade

Oh, he gets it.
He has a goal, and it isn’t to stop Islamic Terrorism,
but to remove the ability of the left’s political opponents to resist what they have in mind for us.


34 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:40 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

All a background check would have shown would have been that those two attackers were peaceful Muslims who never should have been questioned.


35 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:45 PM PST by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: centurion316

And, most people are buying tee shirts and beef jerky there.


36 posted on 12/03/2015 12:38:49 PM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

Obama’s Plan

1. Increase background checks on all innocent American citizens who want to exercise their 2nd amendment Constitutional rights

2. Leave the nations borders wide open

3. Allow illegals from all over the world to enter with no background checks, no medical screening, and no control over what they bring in with them.

4. Import thousands of insanly bitter, hate filled muslim males to the US from militant muslim nations and jihadi groups

5. Allow the muslims to enter with no effective background checks and no medical screening

6. Ridicule and persecute any American citizen who asks that immigration laws be enforced or questions the wisdom of allowing unc=screened muslims to emigrate


37 posted on 12/03/2015 12:39:09 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Cheerio

There is no gun show loophole—It is a fiction concocted by Liberals in an attempt to eradicate gun shows and limit firearm purchasing options.

Current gun laws apply just as much to gun shows as they do to any other place where guns are sold.

All gun dealers, regardless of where they do business, must be in possession of a federal firearms license (FFL); and all gun sales, regardless of where they occur, must be authorized by the FBI—The so-called “instant” background check.


38 posted on 12/03/2015 12:39:38 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: cripplecreek

ADD: .......wearing Body Armor...............

39 posted on 12/03/2015 12:40:12 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Noumenon

I will not comply.


40 posted on 12/03/2015 12:42:04 PM PST by Lazamataz ( If they try firearm confiscation or gun registration, I go ballistic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-88 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson