Obama Executive Orders Impose New Gun Rules

The Blaze ^ | Posted on July 12, 2011 at 6:51am | Buck Sexton

[Absolutely Nobama]

A few days ago, the Blaze reported on the low-key plans of the Obama administration to increase the penalties for certain gun law violations, and add steps to the background checks for legal gun ownership.

Today the administration’s plans are beginning to come into effect. Through an Executive Order, the Obama administration is implementing new restrictions on the sale of certain weapons in border states, and increasing the penalties for violating certain firearms laws.

[sport]

So is just about every other thing he has done.

[EdReform]

NRA Will Sue Obama Administration Over New Gun-Control Measure

[Mrs. B.S. Roberts]

I am not being funny here...I really don’t understand how we can have all these EXECUTIVE ORDERS. Why have a Congress? If a President, any President, and just DECREE a new rule, a new law, a new regulation, aren’t we already living in a dictorship? Seriously, can Congress overrule an Executive Order? IF so, how? I really don’t remember anything in Constitution regarding executive orders.

anyone out there know the legal ins and outs of Exec Orders?

[B4Ranch]

>>So those that said these various “gun tracking investigations” were really about creating false gun hysteria were correct.<<

Another “Conspiracy Comes True!”

[PeterPrinciple]

My thoughts would be that the checks and balances for executive orders is congress...............

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

There is only one rational reason for gun control; that is to rule without the consent of the governed.

[B4Ranch]

>>Congress has become the punchline of a bad knock-knock joke.<<

We, the people, elected our Congress. America has the Congress it deserves.

[Dianer0839]

In every gun post we should have the Suzanna Gratia-Hupp video when she testified the true meaning of the second amendment.Post it on other forums till everyone has seen it. I know that FR people have but others may not. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4069761537893819675#

[Absolutely Nobama]

Yep.

[RasterMaster]

NRA Will Sue Obama Administration Over New Gun-Control Measure

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2747323/posts

[1010RD]

The POTUS cannot make law: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youngstown_Sheet_%26_Tube_Co._v._Sawyer

[Absolutely Nobama]

Bingo!

[Political Junkie Too]

Under the new policy, federal firearms licensees in Texas, California, Arizona and New Mexico must report...

What happened to equal protection? Obama can't order a federal regulation that only affects four states, can he?

-PJ

[Art in Idaho]

Is it going to come to this?

Or are we already there?

[demshateGod]

It’s time for the states to say “NO!”

[Political Junkie Too]

“Stroke of the pen, law of the land. Pretty cool!”

Except that it isn't "law of the land" if it only affects four border states.

Equal Protection should require that this edict apply to all states in the union or else it is unconstitutional.

-PJ

[arkady_renko]

bump

[Absolutely Nobama]

Well, in theory, it works like this (I think, at any rate.) :

An executive order is a directive from the President to the bureaucracy. Supposedly, they don’t have the same weight as law. The problem is: the bureaucracy is now making regulations that carry the weight of law. (See the EPA, FDA, Department of Education, Department of Energy, etc.)

Congress can nullify any executive order with legislation and they can be challenged in court IF it appears that the President is attempting to craft legislation with an executive order. (And the judge has read the Constitution and is not a leftist pig.)

I’m not a lawyer (despite spending last night at Holiday Inn Express and I don’t play one on TV) but that’s the best idea I’ve got.

[RasterMaster]

[Absolutely Nobama]

He seems to think so.