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:
Here it comes... With the raids up in Michigan, it did not take them long to release this.
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Amen
Oh I hope he tries it. He will be in for a rude awakening. That’s what lost Clinton the house and senate.
The enemies of freedom and liberty and all around us. Many are in positions of power!
These cretins will never give up...neither will we!
Be Ever Vigilant!
I do NOT believe initiating violence is in ANY way the direction to go in resisting the current Marxist regime. BUT, if the Feds want a HOT WAR fast, all they need to do is start breaking down — or even knocking on — doors and DEMANDING our guns.
NOT gonna happen. That is a VERY distinct line I draw. PERIOD.
Two words...Bullets first.
Let's get it on.
Bloomberg is not,and never has been ,a Republican.
Yes,
Even tangentially Associating ‘send mentally ill criminals to gun shows’ Bloomberg with the Republican party makes even low life Rinos’ throw up in their mouth a little.
P4L
It’s official.....these people really are crazy.
Okay.... really really love them a LOT.
Resistance cells of one person.
This is an interesting book.It describes how one man carried out a sniping campaign against Federal shipping on the Tennessee River during the Civil War. He killed over 100 Federal troops and was never caught.
McKenney, Tom C., Jack Hinsons One-Man War, Gretna, LA, Pelican, 2009, ISBN 978-1-58980-640-5
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If this is actually tried, methinks that it will be accompanied by a new and virulent disease - instantaneously fatal airborne lead poisoning.
It happened in a few places before, notably the Warsaw Ghetto, but never in a continent-sized nation.
Bloomberg should be careful what he wishes for - the ancient Chinese warned that you might get what you wish for.
You can’t get more than four million gunowners to join the NRA even after they offered free memberships. How do you expect more than that to take an interest in their Rights?
Then why is Jewish New York Mayor Bloomberg the face of gun confiscation in the United States?
There have always been self hating Jews. Marks was a Jew and a viscous anti-Semite. There were Jews in the ghettos who advised against violence against the Nazis. There were Jews in the camps who were informers and collaborators. Today we have self hating Jews like Bloomberg, Schumer, Wiener, Feinstein and Rahm Emanuel.
MileHi to Bloomberg:
If you are feeling froggy, leap...
Of course, he would send others to do his dirty work because he is a coward POS.
“how do you organize 80 million Americans?”
The organizations are called “states.” States such as South Carolina have ORGANIZED state militias. You’re welcome to join.
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