Posted on 03/29/2010 10:38:16 AM PDT by bamahead
(GunReports.com)--A report from a national coalition of mayors urges President Obama to adopt dozens of gun registration and confiscation measures, including the creation of a federal interstate firearms trafficking unit.
After months of waiting in vain for gun control supporters in Congress to take aggressive action against semi-automatic firearms, gun shows and NRA-supported restrictions on the abuse of instant background check records and firearm trace information, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is urging President Obama to make 40 changes to federal gun law interpretation and enforcement on his own-without congressional approval.
Bloomberg conveyed his recommendations to the president through the euphemistically named anti-gun coalition he heads, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, the NRA reports.
Titled "A Blueprint for Federal Action" and released only in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act, the 51-page Bloomberg battle plan takes another cue from the military in calling for its mission to be carried out jointly by seven federal departments and agencies: the departments of State, Justice and Homeland Security, the FBI and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The first six agencies are wholly under President Obama's command, while the CPSC is an independent agency headed by commissioners nominated by the president.
The "Blueprint for Federal Action," a copy of which was obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, presents 40 recommendations that would dramatically curtail firearms freedoms.
The proposed changes could be accomplished within existing laws through agency reforms, regulatory moves and better funding, the report said. The strategies grew out of academic and government research, an analysis of firearms prosecutions and talks with government and law enforcement officials.
"The mayor's coalition created this document for policy discussion," said Jason Post, a spokesman for Bloomberg's office. There were no plans for public release of the document, which was distributed to key members of Obama's administration and agencies affected by the recommendations.
The 51-page document suggests a handful of strategies that would tighten ATF oversight of thousands of gun shows held annually. The study noted that a 2007 inspector general's probe concluded the "ATF does not have a formal gun show enforcement program."
ATF agents at gun shows should "develop undercover integrity tests" to determine whether felons or out-of-state residents are making illegal purchases.
The report also calls for a better approach to crime gun tracing, the process that tracks a seized weapon back to its first retail sale. The ATF lacks the structure or resources to "fully realize its power," the report says, and information is not regularly shared with field offices, and state and local law enforcement.
To this end, the study wants ATF to be funded to create a new "Office of Tactical Trace Analysis," which would replace the current crime gun analysis branch.
To read of a copy of the report, click here:
He just spent $100 million overturning NYC’s term limits and got re-elected last year.
In the latest case though, if people start organizing themselves into militias here comes BATF and the FBI ... how do you organize 80 million Americans?
BLOAT
Bloomberg attempting to subvert the Constitution again.
Well, if the s-— ever really does hit the fan, those 80 million americans should simply drop what they’re doing, get into their cars, whereever they may be, and set course toward the Potomic.
The rest should take care of itself.
Bloomberg is a superb example of a man who strongly needs psychiatric counseling. It is not mentally normal for a person who dislikes things to want to prohibit them from everyone else.
As one example, Bloomberg has a neurotic attitude towards ordinary salt, sodium chloride. He puts a surfeit of salt on his food, far more than normal people can tolerate, yet is deeply aware that this is physically bad for him as a person, and may endanger his health.
A normal mind would confront this problem by trying to reduce their own, personal intake of salt. But Bloomberg’s response is to try and force everyone else in New York City to do with less salt in their diet.
This is not a sane response.
Likewise, his deep and abiding hatred of other people having and using tobacco devolve from his personal problem with using it. Yet his abnormal solution is to force others to stop using it.
I’ve no idea about guns in his life, but I strongly suspect that he is deeply afraid, paranoid, of assassination. So much so that he surrounds himself with a heavily armed phalanx of bodyguards. Yet in his neurotic state, the idea of disarming every single person in the United States, just to protect his dimpled buttocks, sounds reasonable to him.
This is yet another indicator of a mind that needs analysis and treatment.
We should all be profoundly grateful that he has apparently never had a bad experience with sex. Either that, or that he is perplexed about how to prevent every other person from having or enjoying it.
Exactly. I have a feeling we won’t need “leadership” to “organize” our travel.
I hope so, too, but think that the administration will take a strong, swift anti-2A stance when (not if) one of 3 things happen:
1). Republicans make significant gains in November, making it clear that the tides may be turning and Obama faces a difficult reelection.
2). Republicans don't make significant gains, but Obama sees his chances of reelection dim in 2012 for some other reason.
3). Obama is reelected in 2012. When he can't run again, he risks nothing by slamming through as many anti-2A pieces of legislation as possible.
Clinton signed the Brady Bill and the AWB in 1993 & 1994, respectively, and caught a lot of flack for it. I'm sure that lesson hasn't been lost on Obama. When he can no longer be punished by the voters for doing so, expect his grade with the Brady Bunch to soar.
Interesting timing with the raids in Lenawee County.
Here we go. What bill will this be inserted into and passed with 51 votes? How easily we will fold too. So far Obozo is batting 1000% percent because he won.
If Zero has any brains at all he’ll leave this one alone.
What Good Can a Handgun Do Against an Army.....?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/2312894/posts?page=242
This lesson also hasn't been lost on Democrat congressmen, many of whom have their jobs because they either supported gun rights or showed little interest in gun control.
When he can no longer be punished by the voters for doing so, expect his grade with the Brady Bunch to soar.
He'll still need the help of Congress and those folks want to keep their jobs. I really don't think any strong gun control legislation will happen during Obama's administration. He may toss a symbolic bone over to the Brady folks, some toothless executive order, but that'll probably be all. I just don't think Congress is going to let him do more than that. I really hope I'm right on this one. So far, so good.
Bloomberg is now clearly a certifable idiot.
Why, I think you’ve nailed ol’ Bloomie just right! Personally, I just call him “that Napoleonic toad.”
Regards,
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