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Today in Washington: President Obama takes executive action on gun control
Post Standard: Syracuse NY ^ | 08/29/13 | Mark Weiner

Posted on 08/29/2013 7:43:18 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines

Washington -- President Barack Obama's administration today said it would take new executive action toward gun control, acting on issues that Congress failed to address through legislation.

The White House had promised big city mayors in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that it would take its own action on gun control.

The new steps would curb the import of military surplus weapons and close an obscure loophole that allows felons and others to register guns to corporations as a way to avoid background checks.

Vice President Joe Biden, who has led administration efforts on gun control, is expected to outline the plan at the White House today.

The executive actions are part of a list of 23 steps the White House said the president could take to reduce gun violence in the absence of any legislative initiatives passed by Congress.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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To: Dead Corpse

“...writing on the wall though....”

They sure do.

Not enough of the population has been sufficiently brainwashed into believing in the Glorious Revolution of the Worker... They see it for the bullsh*t that it really is... and they see the current progenitors of it for they lying pieces of crap that they really are.

And that makes these critters very desperate... and extremely unstable.


61 posted on 08/29/2013 9:22:56 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: tomkat

bump for later


62 posted on 08/29/2013 9:25:00 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: Balding_Eagle

What I understand and ONLY what I understand

EOs apply to federal employees is what is shouted out all of the time. So Omuslim changes the wording around to Executive Action (EAs), Congress lets him slide like duck butter and the MSM says it is the law of the land.

No one left to call him on this but a few armed American Patriots ready to go just looking for a leader.


63 posted on 08/29/2013 9:25:55 AM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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Only Three Days Until
September.

Less than $4.8k to Go!!
Keep FR Alive with $25!!

64 posted on 08/29/2013 10:07:33 AM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
The imperial president strikes again.

Exactly!

This president evidently believes that he is entitled to sidestep Congress, since it (the Republican-controlled House, especially) is "obstructionist."

This is all part and parcel of the leftist fetish for "getting things done in Washington"; as if it were a good thing for Washington to be continually coming up with all sorts of quick fixes...

65 posted on 08/29/2013 10:16:52 AM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Iron Munro

This is hard to follow so far. There are few surplus foreign made weapons coming in the country now. Just 50 year+ old curio/relic classes. But our lend lease weapons from WW II are also coming in to CMP. cleaned up and sold to the public. This is already law that I doubt he can change by Exo but that doesn’t mean he can’t F it up and slow it down.-——————————just when I thot ammo sales were slowing down.


66 posted on 08/29/2013 10:31:33 AM PDT by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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To: cherokee1
But our lend lease weapons from WW II are also coming in to CMP. cleaned up and sold to the public.

The last I read the feds had stopped the pending re-importation of carbines and Garands from Korea.

Also I have been told that CMP does not deal in re-imported weapons (which are all stamped as such).

Not trying to rain on your parade - If you have different info I would welcome being corrected.

I am still upset about not picking up a carbine when CMP had a bunch of them a few years ago.

67 posted on 08/29/2013 11:15:20 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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To: Sooth2222
Mausers, Mosin Nagants, and legally-registered machine guns are used in so few crimes that it's effectively statistical noise.

I was being sarcastic in post 21.

Probably should have indicated that was the case.


68 posted on 08/29/2013 11:32:36 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You bring me the man, I'll find you the crime" - Lavrentiy Beria [and Eric Holder])
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To: LowTaxesEqualsProsperity


POS works for me!


69 posted on 08/29/2013 12:31:44 PM PDT by rhubarbk (It's official, I'm suffering from Obama fatigue!)
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To: 1010RD

We have thousands of laws that are contrary to liberty and nature enforced by bureaucrats
*******
The country is dying from a slow death by a thousand cuts.


70 posted on 08/29/2013 1:29:36 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: PATRIOT1876; All
“By the way, shouldn’t the POTUS have been impeached by now????”

Perhaps. But the House learned under Clinton, that it does no good to Impeach if the Senate refuses to even look at the evidence.

The Senate controlled by Harry Reid would just laugh at impeachment.

If the Republicans take the Senate in 2014, impeachment might have a small chance to do some good.

71 posted on 08/29/2013 1:39:42 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: Starboard
The country is dying from a slow death by a thousand cuts.

It's millions of cuts administered by hundreds of thousands of little kings.

Much of urban poverty, particularly among blacks, is the result of local, county and state licensing, permitting and zoning ordinances. It's the same in health care, education, etc. They imposition of legal monopolies kills entrepreneurship and redirects risk to bad behaviors.

72 posted on 08/29/2013 2:19:38 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: RedMDer

I notice that the contribution page is working properly even when the threads don’t fully open. If you want contributions you should probably fix the software first.


73 posted on 08/29/2013 2:34:27 PM PDT by B4Ranch (AGENDA: Grinding America Down ----- http://vimeo.com/63749370)
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To: 1010RD

I was recently talking with a marina owner who is being crushed financially by environmental regulations because his property is, naturally, on the water in a so-called flood zone. The government has forced him to extensively modify his main office building and to implement a very expensive water run-off collection system. This is on top of myriad other fees, taxes and regulations he is subject to. He has been forced to lay people off and is nearing the point of bankruptcy after two decades of operation. He will likely sell soon — if he can find a buyer.

There are millions of stories similar to this one in today’s Amerika.


74 posted on 08/29/2013 3:17:28 PM PDT by Starboard
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To: B4Ranch

It is frustrating for me as well. Can’t post any thank you graphics.
Thanks.


75 posted on 08/29/2013 3:28:44 PM PDT by RedMDer (http://www.dontfundobamacare.com/)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Another victory for the unelected, unaccountable, government bureaucracies.


76 posted on 08/29/2013 8:34:22 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: Dead Corpse

always!


77 posted on 08/29/2013 9:21:41 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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