Posted on 01/06/2016 8:29:55 AM PST by TroutStalker
Obama’s executive actions to combat gun violence call for an expanded role for the federal government, with hundreds of new federal law enforcement staff members and oversight by several agencies.
The FBI is expected to hire more than 230 new analysts and other employees for its National Instant Criminal Background Check System, a database created 17 years ago to vet and stop gun sales to buyers who are prohibited from obtaining firearms.
The expansion, carrying out a change designed to make it harder for gun buyers to avoid background checks, should speed the process of background checks, the White House said. Under current law, a gun sale can go forward if a check is not completed within three days.
The extra staffing also will allow the system, based in Clarksburg, W.Va., to ramp up to round-the-clock processing of background checks from its current 17-hour schedule. Local authorities will be notified sooner when someone who is barred from buying a gun tries to purchase one, according to a White House fact sheet on the changes.
“We’re going to hire more folks to process applications faster, and we’re going to bring an outdated background check system into the 21st century,†Obama said Tuesday as he announced his plan.
The system received more than 22.2 million background check requests last year — an average of more than 63,000 applications per day, Carol Cratty, an FBI spokeswoman, said. That number is expected to grow as the administration requires more background checks on licensed gun dealers and others who want to own more-dangerous weapons.
The White House said the new hiring “will begin immediately and increase the existing workforce by 50 percent,†according to a fact sheet on the executive actions.
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Only if the House gives him the mon...oh wait, never mind
The leviathan gets bigger.............
More jobs for play aunties.
Exactly
And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more - we had no awareness of the real situation. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Trump or Cruz should simply state: “Think hard before you take this job, because when I’m elected president you’ll be fired the first day I’m on the job.
Hugh Hewitt is a RINO, but he’s also an attorney, and formerly worked for the Office of Personnel Management under the Reagan Administration.
One night on his show he walked us through the boilerplate and confirmed the sobering fact that it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to fire a Federal Employee.
Maybe he’ll put Lois Lerner in charge of the program.
100 cops on the streets of Chicago would stop more shootings than this nonsense.
Ever expanding government bump for later.....
after Lois is hung for crimes against the republic, she won’t be able to work
Yes, creating government jobs by hiring people to aid an oppressive government to violate more of our rights and become more oppressive. The Second Amendment does not give authority to the US or State governments to regulate firearms, ammunition or the Militia, it gives it to the PEOPLE which has always meant individual rights and this is reinforced by the Tenth Amendment. The primary reason for the People to have the right to bear arms is to be able to defend themselves from an OPPRESSIVE government. The framers of our Constitution and the founders had more sense than to put that which they feared in charge of firearms and the Militia. We the People have ceded our rights for years by trusting those who want to make government larger and turn our citizenry into subjects.
New employees for all those private gun sale background checks that are gonna happen when Hell freezes over. LOL!
“One night on his show he walked us through the boilerplate and confirmed the sobering fact that it’s literally IMPOSSIBLE to fire a Federal Employee.”
That is one reason you shut down the whole agency. All jobs done away with.
But how many jobs has he created at Smith & Wesson, Strum/Rugar, Mossberg etc? Thousands, probably, as demand for fire arms has exploded during King Barack’s rule.
Too bad Wall St. is too politically correct to create a Deadly SPYDER portfolio comprised of gun manufacturers, gun ranges, gun merchants. We could have made some great returns on those investments. (On a road trip to Dallas over Christmas, we were struck by several new gun ranges along the interstate, every one of them with crowded parking lots.)
I posted that the purpose of the order was to hire more people at the FBI and BATF and someone questioned me. Bring it.
And Paul Ryan gave Obama a blank check to hire them.
Ryan is far worse than Obama as he is an enabler.
It would not prick my heart, disturb my conscience, or eviscerate my soul, should, starting in the near future, for obama loving bureaucratic drones to begin lifelessly inhabiting the dumpsters in the alleys behind shops a la ‘Mack the Knife’, as the song goes.
To them, you will either fit the checklist or not. No apologies, no remorse.
President Trump has vowed that on his first day in office, he will revoke this EO and every other unconstitutional EO issued by Obama. It would be even better if President Trump simply revoked ALL of Obama’s EOs with Trump Presidential EO #1, and then reissued any that actually might some merit.
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