Posted on 07/08/2011 1:48:57 PM PDT by pabianice
“Half a year after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the Obama administration is set to release a series of reforms to the current gun law, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said on Thursday.” The Huffington Post may not be rubbing its hands in glee, but they’re not offering any analysis of this move, either. Here’s the short version: Barak Obama has lost his base. Or his mind. Or both . . .
Alienating pro-gun independents in a fruitless effort to end-run Congress on gun control (the edicts will supposedly take the form of executive orders) may please the far left, but it’s nearasdammit political suicide. Wait. Hear that? Cha-ching! That’s the sound of the NRA cash register struggling to process tens of millions of dollars in contributions as its members hit the hustings.
Here’s the official WH announcement:
“The president directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common sense measures that would improve American safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights,” Carney said at Thursday’s briefing. “That process is well underway at the Department of Justice with stakeholders on all sides working through these complex issues and we expect to have more specific announcements in the near future.”
The Department of Justice? Carney’s kidding, right? The same federal agency that stands accused of conducting a major and ongoing cover-up of a gun-related program gone horribly wrong (the ATF’s literally fatal Gunwalker misegos) is going to draft regulations to control firearms sales? That’s insane.
As for “all stakeholders” having their say on these new regs, wrong. The gun rights side of the “debate” didn’t get a look in. The NRA boycotted the White House “gun summit” and Obama officials never responded to TTAG’s request for a seat at the table. (Can you believe it?)
The HuffPo reckons All the President’s Men will nibble The HuffPo reckons All the President’s Men will nibble away at existing laws rather than jump off the cliff marked “renew the assault weapons ban.”
The end result, one source close to the discussions said, was a package of reforms “not huge in scope.” They are largely expected to mirror the topics covered in the president’s op-ed. Gun control advocates have pushed for more, including legislation that would limit the size of magazines — such as the 32-round clip that Giffords’ shooter used — or a bill that would force private sellers to conduct background checks at gun shows — which may have prevented the Virginia Tech shooter from obtaining his firearms.
Maybe. Actually not. Mr. Cho bought his firearms at a gun dealer. (I guess the HuffPo’s Internet connection was down at the time of writing.)
All this—what this is—will occur “in the near future.” In other words, probably not at all. Any attempt to limit magazine capacity with a federal fiat will enrage, alienate and energize the President’s generally sleepy pro-gun followers. And not in a good way.
If this is a trial balloon, it’s holier than Benedetto XVI.
The “gun show loophole” fix is pure registration. It is nothing less than the requirement that every gun transfer be conducted through a dealer.
Get it throught the house Obamao,, i wanna see you try.
Hussein never had much of a mind to loose in the first place. His filthy socialist left will never leave him. They will bitch a lot but vote for him.
“Here’s the short version: Barak Obama has lost his base. Or his mind. Or both . . . “
You can’t lose what you don’t have.
He is already trying to make all interstate transactions FFL to FFL by having the ATF lean heavily on dealers to not accept guns from non-FF holders. It is pure intimidation by the BATF
der 0berFuhrer Hussein 0bama will merely issue a decree and along with his legion of corrupt judges, Holder and the criminals at ATF, it will be enforced as law. He don't need no stinkin' House of Representatives.
They are all collectively thinking "What the hell is he saying?"
I agree. Something has to be done about the Oboma administration shipping arms to the worlds criminal drug dealers.
Oh wait. He's taking about taking rights away from us average American citizens again, isn't he? He's only going to allow criminal foreign drug dealers to be publicly funded and armed, right?
I feel safer already - NOT !!!!
Exactly. That’s the country we’re living in right now. No such thing as the Constitution, law enforcement, separation of powers, or checks and balances. Money by fiat. Rule by fiat. That’s where we’re at.
And he gets this legislative power how, exactly? He just appropriates it?
I can´t believe the slew of cowards we elected to the House. Elections matter, eh? Like hell.
Like the ATF not forcing dealers to sell guns to people they suspect are criminals? That would be a step in the right direction.
In other words, we are closer to a revolution then a few years ago.
Here’s another story on this:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-expected-boost-gun-safety-executiv
But since now the “fast and furious” scandal has broken out, this will blow things up to sky high.
The "president" (or current commie dictator) can't write law. Congress has to write the laws.
Now, of course, I don't propose to forget the rights protected by the 2nd Amendment - such bans are outright restrictions on the right to keep and bear arms. Such an Executive Order or regulations would wind up in court very quickly, and there'd be a Temporary Restraining Order slapped on to prevent enforcement until the courts could get a look.
Oh, and let's say that all of this passes muster - how is this enforced? We all know the answer...someone goes to jail. Now, who would that be? Mainly middle class and upper middle class people, the backbone of the economy. Go to jail on what is likely to be a federal felony charge, and you can NEVER hold a federal job, work as a federal contractor, get a security clearance or a bond, etc. - i.e. your future economic prospects are significantly dampened. This is, in addition to being an outright assault (pun intended) on our rights, but also an attack on the economic prospects of those likely to oppose Obama and the Dems (oh, and let's not forget that you'd lose your right to vote in most states).
FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO. FUBO.
I am actually pretty satisfied with my representative, Blackburn.
Or as Tonto said when he and the Lone Ranger were surrounded by Indians, “What do you mean WE white man?”
“Gun control advocates have pushed for more, including legislation that would limit the size of magazines — such as the 32-round clip that Giffords’ shooter used—”
keep wondering if Giffords’ shooter’s gun was one of the ones that ‘walked’
And what exactly is Blackburn doing to light a fire under the rest of the bums?
It was a 33 round magazine, not a clip and not 32 rounds, but who’s counting?
Glad I bought some before they get outlawed.
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