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Sweeping new gun laws proposed by influential liberal think tank (Center for American Progress)
Washington Post ^ | January 12, 2013 | Philip Rucker

Posted on 01/12/2013 7:03:20 PM PST by Seizethecarp

The Center for American Progress is recommending 13 new gun policies to the White House — some of them executive actions that would not require the approval of Congress — in what amounts to the progressive community’s wish list.

CAP’s recommendations, presented Friday to White House officials and detailed in an 11-page report obtained by The Washington Post, establish a benchmark for what many in Obama’s liberal base are urging him to do after last month’s massacre at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines, and modernizing data systems to track gun sales and enforce existing laws — are all but certain to face stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association and its many allies in Congress.

On Monday, Tanden will moderate a public discussion with three Democrats who have played leading roles in the gun debate: Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who during the Clinton administration helped get the 1994 assault-weapons ban passed; Sen. Charles E. Schumer (N.Y.), who helped write that bill as a House member; and Rep. Mike Thompson (Calif.), who chairs the House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.

One of CAP’s suggestions to toughen federal regulation of gun sales is to make the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is currently an agency within the Department of Justice, a unit of the FBI. CAP says absorbing the ATF into the FBI would better empower the ATF to combat gun crime and illegal trafficking.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bloodoftyrants; cap; chuckschumer; democrats; guncontrol; liberalfascism; liberalism; liberals; obama; progressives; rahnemanuel; rapeofliberty; secondamendment; soros; soroscap; tyranny; waronliberty; wewillnotcomply; youwillnotdisarmus
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Soros' CAP reveals gun-grabbing agenda including plan to fold ATF into the FBI!
1 posted on 01/12/2013 7:03:34 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Seizethecarp

“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
— Thomas Jefferson


2 posted on 01/12/2013 7:06:31 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Impeach Obama Now.)
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To: Seizethecarp

Maybe they could start with Chicago?


3 posted on 01/12/2013 7:06:59 PM PST by Dallas59 (America died a little bit more on 11/6/2012)
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To: Seizethecarp

The 2nd Amendment is not negotiable.

I am not a criminal. I have the right to protect my family, myself and my property from a criminal or from government.

Democrats want to make criminals out of the citizens of this country. The only thing they know is the use of force by making laws to criminalize citizens. They label those laws to make them sound good and for your benefit.

This is a fraud.

In 1994, Sen. Dianne Feinstein stated that if she had the votes, she would take all the guns from citizens. She conveniently had a complete gun-registration law and ban of hundreds of guns to submit the day after the last shooting.

U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder has stated we have to do the same thing with the guns that we did to smoking.

All of these people have taxpayer-funded security around them.

There is only one reason to ban guns, and that is Democrats and Obama want to disarm citizens. It does not make the children or the public safer. But it makes it easier to use force in making the public comply with their whims.

Now Obama is going to issue an executive order to ban guns. Can anyone say dictatorship?


4 posted on 01/12/2013 7:10:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: Dallas59

only criminal the fibbies ever really went after in Chicago was John Dillinger ~ the others were taken out by the Treasury Department ~ lot of psycho babble in the rationale for all that stuff.


5 posted on 01/12/2013 7:11:35 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Seizethecarp

It must feel sooo good to be a liberal.

A liberal never lets facts interfere with his theories.


6 posted on 01/12/2013 7:12:01 PM PST by old curmudgeon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
When Injustice becomes law, Resistance becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson
7 posted on 01/12/2013 7:12:01 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Seizethecarp
the BATFAGS will resist being absorbed into the FBI tooth and nail, they like not being held accountable for ANYTHING or beholdin to ANYBODY... count on it
8 posted on 01/12/2013 7:14:48 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Seizethecarp

Entire agenda is nationalist socialist gun-grabbing socialism, setting up FBI DEA Gestapo to enforce blatantly unconstitutional criminal and treasonous action by the executive branch - using the same ATF that used taxpayer cash from DEA informants to illegally buy AK 47s and transport them to Sinaloa cartel narcotraficante operatives in Mexico, who used them to murder US agents, border patrol, and thousands of Mexicans officials and citizens.

THESE ARE KNOWN CRIMINAL ELEMENTS WITHIN THE GOVERNEMT ADVANCING A HOSTILE ARMED GOVERNMENT IN OPPOSITION TO FREEDOMS OF THE CITIZENRY.

How is this different from , say, Pol Pot in Cambodia Killing Fields?


9 posted on 01/12/2013 7:19:01 PM PST by FlyingEagle
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To: Seizethecarp

They know they need to move ATF into another agency because of Fast and Furious. Look for some rebranding as well, but a turd by any other name still smells like poop. ATF only came over from Treasury 10 years ago so there will still be some people at FBI that won’t want to be thrown in with them. It will be a very rocky merger without even taking into account Fast and Furious.


10 posted on 01/12/2013 7:19:46 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: Seizethecarp
BATF started under Treasury. Then moved to DOJ.

I'm willing to compromise. I say we disband the BATFE. They were thugs looking for a home from the start.

/johnny

11 posted on 01/12/2013 7:21:05 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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sounds like a good idea to me


12 posted on 01/12/2013 7:21:58 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: Seizethecarp

I’m sure home-schooling was first on the list... /sarc


13 posted on 01/12/2013 7:45:40 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
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To: Norm Lenhart
See my post #11 for proof that I'm willing to compromise. ;)

/johnny

14 posted on 01/12/2013 7:52:30 PM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Seizethecarp

These groups can propose all they want but it will NOT pass! They keep trying to pass laws to prevent law abiding citizens from owning weapons but they continually run up against the Second Amendment and Public outcry. They can just go pound sand as far as I am concerned.

These anti-gun activists constantly try to edge their way into to all gun ban that they actually hope for but it will not happen in this generation nor probably the next. I do fear that with all the propaganda that is being espoused in public schools that the future may change. Hope that our children have a better understanding of the subject and the possible outcomes of Government control of firearms. Teach your children folks...


15 posted on 01/12/2013 8:00:24 PM PST by Deagle (quo)
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To: Seizethecarp

I love how the names leftists choose for their organizations are almost always the exact opposite of their active goals.


16 posted on 01/12/2013 8:01:16 PM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Thought Puzzle: Describe Islam without using the phrase "mental disorder" more than four times.)
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To: Seizethecarp

SSDD: Tear up the Constitution, and Utopia is ours.


17 posted on 01/12/2013 8:05:18 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Bah...

Disband most acronym agencies period... We ‘need’ an FBI/CIA/Defense and SocSec working to phase itself out over time without screwing people.

That’s my idea of compromise.

No BATFE/Energy/EPA/misEducation/Interior/Labor.

For a start. Then disband about another 75 percent of what remains.

Then get serious about returning to Constitutional principles. And yes, I am serious ;)

/purist


18 posted on 01/12/2013 8:06:16 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Leftists reads Orwell's 1984 and think "Wow! Great textbook!"
19 posted on 01/12/2013 8:07:27 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (You can't have IngSoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Seizethecarp
From the article:

CAP’s proposals — which include requiring universal background checks, banning military-grade assault weapons

The group also suggests requiring firearms dealers to report to the federal government individuals who purchase multiple semiautomatic assault rifles within a five-day period.

Am I missing something here? They want to ban an item then require reporting on purchases of that same item?

20 posted on 01/12/2013 8:14:19 PM PST by superloser
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