Knowing that he no longer controlled the House and therefore could not possibly get anti-gun legislation through Congress he sought, instead, to "compromise" border state gun dealers so that he could have a bunch of prosecutions. At the same time the ATF was building its files on identifying the gun smugglers themselves ~ which gave the Obama Regime a chance to better protect their "real friends" . Prosecuting the dealers would put them out of business and unable to supply arms and AMMUNITION to US citizens in the South West.
Finally, he was able to put several thousand (maybe 25,000 to 50,000 semi-automatic fire long guns into the hands of his friends in the Mexican Northern border states.
There's his NON DOD military force!~
Chavez of Venezuela did something similar by arming FARC in Columbia. When the time came he had them to occupy the Venezuelan government while he took over the country.
Again, the intention was to limit the flow of guns to Americans in the SW, build a small army in Northern Mexico beholden to Obama personally, and then overthrow the civil structure of the US government through force of arms.
Which, BTW, explains why Obama is piling on war after war that requires ever more forward involvement by US military forces. It is conceivable that he could disable the US military from defending the US by being tied up in crazy places like the middle of primitive continental areas like Afghanistan, Uganda, and maybe Southern Argentina!
Pierre is nuts if he thinks Obama is just going after the Second Amendment. This guy (or actually his handlers) is going after the whole enchilada.