Posted on 12/19/2015 11:38:50 AM PST by Kaslin
Well, if there's one thing that was left out of the president's final press conference of the year, it was gun control. There have been rumblings that some policy initiative coming from this administration on guns could be announced after the holidays (via Roll Call):
So far, the White House is keeping its plans — and the details of its legal review — under wraps. But sources say the administration is zeroing in on the definition of just who is in the gun sales realm.
"What we expect is that they are going to better define what it means to be 'in the business' of selling firearms," said a source with knowledge of the administration's thinking. Congressional aides say they are hearing similar rumblings.
Under current laws, only licensed firearms dealers are required to conduct background checks on those trying to buy guns. What's more, the only individuals considered "in the business" are ones who must apply to be dealers — but that leaves countless people selling firearms without registering.
"Currently many people, even those who sell tons of guns each year, just say that they aren't 'in the business,' or 'it's just a hobby,' in order to get out of the licensing and its attendant background check requirement," the source told Roll Call. "Because what 'in the business' means is so unclear, it's very difficult and thus very rare for people to be prosecuted under this standard.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the status of the review and the expected coming executive action. Instead, he referred a reporter to Wednesday's briefing, during which Earnest called GOP lawmakers' resistance to changes the "central problem" in the administration's push to enact tougher gun laws.
This is definitely aimed at the so-called gun show loophole, where the president was reportedly looking into taking executive action to close it. As Roll Call wrote, dealers with federal firearms licenses are required to perform background checks on all purchases. With any Internet sale through a FFL, as Bud's Gun Shop noted, a background check also needs to be conducted.
Yes, private sales exist, they're a miniscule proportion of all sales (in the single digits), and they're mostly relegated to family members (i.e. fathers passing their firearms down to their sons). And the statistic that 40 percent of all gun sales are performed without a background check has been thoroughly debunked twice. Clinton and Obama have peddled this false claim. Most law-abiding citizens (and by most, I mean like 99.9 percent), buy their firearms from licensed dealers and undergo a background check.
Those dealers who are shady and knowingly give firearms to people who shouldn't have them are in violation of the law People with no criminal backgrounds (yet) that buy guns for criminals (straw purchases) are also breaking the law. The penalties for which could land you behind bars for up to a decade. There are already laws against any skirting of the legal process to buy firearms. The debate we should be having is how to navigate the legal waters in which we can better incorporate mental health into our background check system. We should also be looking to reform how we treat and report the mentally ill. The American people agree that mental health is at the core of the recent string of mass shootings.
Let's focus on that rather than nonsensical initiatives that only infringe on Americans' constitutional right to own firearms. The Obama administration's push to incorporate those on terror watch lists from buying guns, wherein we eviscerate due process of law, just shows where the left's intent on this issue truly rests.
Most people are these lists are not citizens and can't buy guns, almost 300,000 have zero ties to terrorism, and only about 10,000 Americans are on the lists most of them either placed their by accident or have names mismatched. That's why you hear stories about 18-month old babies being on these secretive government lists that virtually prevent wrongly placed persons zero recourse to readdress their situation, which is based on mere suspicion. It's scary stuff, which is why even liberal news outlets, like the LA Times, have said they think Americans on terror watch lists should be able to buys guns due to the gross constitutional violations within this Bush-era program.
In the end, White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett has submitted something to expand background checks. This means gun and ammo sales are probably going to spike again.
Note to self: Must revise Christmas list.
I’m hoping Santa brings me something with large capacity magazines.
There have been over 100,000,000 guns sold since he took office and already over 20,000,000 so far this year. I think he is going for a record of 25,000,000 guns this year.
Obama can make laws?
He sure is the gun salesman in the United States.
What they are really after is the elimination of private sales. You or me selling a gun to our neighbor, friend or co-worker.
They want all sales having a paper trail by making private sales illegal.
What they want is for every transfer of every firearm to have a 4473 filled out.
Backdoor registration.
I can’t afford any more guns at the moment. What I need is a few more gun safes. They’re everywhere!
Seriously, I’d like to see the gun-grabbers define their catch phrase, “common sense gun control”.
Any law he writes can be unwritten by the next President.
Let's make our candidates promise to restore the Constitution.
“Obama Expected To Do Something On Gun Laws After Christmas”
Here is my suggestion to him: sit on one and pull the trigger.
Obama can make laws?
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He seems to think so and so far nobody is stopping him.
He implemented the DREAM Act that isn’t an Act because it did not pass Congress. He’s been legalizing illegal aliens and giving them work papers since 2012.
The states sued and have on hold his SECOND illegal amnesty for illegal aliens.
If the Obama administration tyrannical regime goes for more gun registration America's ponds and creeks will be overflowing with guns accidentally lost from leaky boats and overturned canoes.
The Dictator-In-Chief will do what?
If you have been good, I am sure he will ;)
Maybe Hussein should just do household checks of every mosque attendee?
Do you suppose he wants to spark and insurrection—or a revolution?
Confiscation.
With upwards of 22,000 gun control laws on the various books, it’s just about all that’s left.
Any time a liberal uses the phrase “common sense,” better watch out. A loaded gun is safer by comparison.
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Well, Emperor 0bama thinks he can.
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