Posted on 10/08/2015 7:08:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
In response to the latest mass shooting during his presidency, President Obama is seriously considering circumventing Congress with his executive authority and imposing new background-check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from high-volume gun dealers.
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The proposed executive action aims to impose background checks on individuals who buy from dealers who sell a significant number of guns each year. The current federal statute dictates that those who are “engaged in the business” of dealing firearms need to obtain a federal license — and, therefore, conduct background checks — but exempts anyone “who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms.”
White House officials drafted the proposal in late 2013 to apply to those dealers who sell at least 50 guns annually, after Congress had rejected legislation that would have expanded background checks more broadly to private sellers. While the White House Office of Legal Counsel and then-Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. initially concluded the regulation was legally defensible, according to several individuals involved in the discussions, some federal lawyers remained concerned that setting an arbitrary numerical threshold could leave the rule vulnerable to a challenge.
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The GOP should be pushing to eliminate gun free zones and repeal the 1968 gun act. Where are you, GOP?
Surprised this jive punk ass magic negro hasn’t gotten the U.N. To come in and take our guns by force.
Love to see the blue helmets go intoChicago, Watts, or maybe Harlem 1st
To see their results.
Now, that’s *funny* right there....As if there’s a current ‘gun control’ law/regulation/etc. that IS Constitutional....
Hell, I can barely think of ANY Amendment that isn’t currently violated by D.C.
I’m not, but the Obama worshipers, both on and off this forum are.
Right on.
They’re gutless for the most part. Like 95% most part.
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