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AP Exclusive: Obama offers new gun control steps
AP ^ | 08.29.13 0906 EDT

Posted on 08/29/2013 6:42:05 AM PDT by Perdogg

Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.

Four months after a gun control drive collapsed spectacularly in the Senate, President Barack Obama added two more executive actions to a list of 23 steps the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obama's intent to show he hasn't lost sight of a cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; executiveorders; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Mr. K
What 'others'? There is only felons and NOT-felons (everyone else)

I was looking at this on another thread, and you might be surprised to learn there has been a Federal law since 1997 that prohibits gun ownership for people convicted of Misdemeanor Domestic Violence and also people with Restraining Orders against them. Note that ROs do not require any kind of due process.

61 posted on 08/29/2013 12:49:49 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Uncle Miltie: Obama poisoned race relations for a generation. Everything is racial now.)
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To: Perdogg
... the move signaled Obama's intent to show he hasn't lost sight of a cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.

Oh, puhleeze. He acquired this "cause" 15 minutes after his first indoctrination into Marxist philosophy. And that was probably years before his tutelage as a teenager by well-known and seld-declared communist Frank Marshall Davis.

"After Newtown," my butt.

62 posted on 08/29/2013 12:56:04 PM PDT by Nita Nupress ( Use your mind, not your emotions. Refuse to be manipulated by Marxists!)
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63 posted on 08/29/2013 1:05:22 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Cyber Liberty; Mr. K

Non-residents also.


64 posted on 08/29/2013 1:16:40 PM PDT by absolootezer0 (2x divorced tattooed pierced harley hatin meghan mccain luvin' REAL beer drinkin' smoker ..what?)
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To: Red in Blue PA

65 posted on 08/29/2013 1:21:42 PM PDT by caww
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To: onyx

66 posted on 08/29/2013 1:24:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: caww

I grab my broom, don’t you?
LOL.


67 posted on 08/29/2013 1:26:27 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: onyx

Only if Hillary is on it.


68 posted on 08/29/2013 1:50:35 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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69 posted on 08/29/2013 1:52:54 PM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Perdogg
I wonder what the spark will be, to set off the magazine.

5.56mm

70 posted on 08/29/2013 1:58:05 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Perdogg
...the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence.

Why isn't the Supreme Court giddy to get this case?

71 posted on 08/29/2013 2:11:01 PM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: onyx

Never ceases to really amaze me the arguments they give for gun control....they might better put all that effort at ‘increasing and enforcing the laws’ against ‘criminals’ who use them...but then asking them to do their job is pointless.


72 posted on 08/29/2013 2:11:17 PM PDT by caww
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To: Joe Brower

Won’t affect CMP it was created by Congress...


73 posted on 08/29/2013 2:13:20 PM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: Perdogg
With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obama's intent to show he hasn't lost sight of a cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year of his desire to destroy freedom and to do so on the bodies of innocent, dead children.
74 posted on 08/29/2013 2:37:24 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: LucianOfSamasota

Taking the guns from Federal agents would definitely take guns off the streets that don’t need to be there.

F U B O!


75 posted on 08/29/2013 4:18:56 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: Perdogg

The people of the United States should exercise their 2nd amendment call of duty and offer new Obama control steps


76 posted on 08/29/2013 8:04:48 PM PDT by KTM rider
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To: Perdogg

2nd Amendment bump for later.........


77 posted on 08/29/2013 8:10:06 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: KTM rider

nobama and other anti-2nd-Amendment nitwits will attempt to undermine your God-given rights until they are imprisoned or deported. Losers.


78 posted on 08/29/2013 8:13:23 PM PDT by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: Perdogg

I’ve got three (3) brand new Sig P938 7rd extended mags for $45 each. Are those subject to controls now?


79 posted on 08/29/2013 8:36:48 PM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Perdogg
There are few signs the calculus in Congress has changed dramatically since April, when a package of measures including expanded background checks and an assault weapons ban flopped in the Senate despite intense advocacy by families of the 20 children and six adults gunned down in December in Newtown, Conn.

Being from CT, I treat these "families" no different than any other politician. They lost all my sympathy once they began their road trip to support gun control.

80 posted on 08/29/2013 9:59:23 PM PDT by matt04
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