Obama To Unveil "Multiple Gun Control" Executive Actions Next Week
A month ago, after the mass San Bernardino shooting, we predicted that "the US will see increasingly more escalating "attacks" until ultimately Obama's crackdown on gun sales and possession hits its breaking point and the president's gun confiscation mandate is finally executed."
Without a Democratic majority in Congress, and faced with a GOP that is firmly against any form of gun control measures, Obama has repeatedly warned that he would act on his own. Next week he will do just that, and his "gun confiscation" mandate will get a substantial boost on Monday, when according to the WSJ Obama will meet with US Attorney General Loretta Lynch "to consider measures aimed at reducing gun violence, a conversation that comes as he prepares to announce new executive actions in the coming days."
The president has directed administration officials to explore any steps he could take on guns without lawmakers’ help, and he said in his weekly address that he would sit down with Ms. Lynch on Monday “to discuss our options.”
Once he has Lynch's "blessing", the WSJ adds that Obama "could lay out multiple executive actions as soon as next week, and administration officials have confirmed that recommendations for the president are nearing completion."
White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Mr. Obama asked his team to “scrub existing legal authorities” and assess actions that could be taken administratively.
Why act now?
"I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids to sit around and do nothing,” Obama said in the address, which was released Friday morning.
Something tells Obama gets even more letters from supporters of the Second amendment, although their contents may be just slighly more "colorful."
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence. But what if we tried to stop even one?” Obama added. “What if Congress did something—anything—to protect our kids from gun violence?”
"The president has made clear he’s not satisfied with where we are and expects that work to be completed soon," the White House spokesman added. In other words, it's time for the president to micromanage yet another aspect of daily US lives, because Obamacare turned out so well.
One executive action that will almost certainly be unveiled is the "tightening" of rules for firearms sellers by requiring more of them to be licensed and, as a result, to conduct background checks on buyers.
Anything Obama does unveil will be met with stiff resistance.
Many gun-rights groups already have signaled opposition to new rules for private sellers and an expansion of background checks. And they have questioned whether Mr. Obama has the legal authority to act unilaterally.
Research by the National Rifle Association showed that dating back to the 2007 mass murder at Virginia Tech, none of the high-profile mass shootings has been conducted600 with a firearm bought from a private seller. Adam Lanza is believed to have stolen his mother’s gun after killing her then using it in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre.
“I don’t think the president has the authority to redefine what a dealer is because that is defined in existing federal statute,” said Dave Workman, senior editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s The Gun Mag. “He can’t snap his fingers and suddenly say to someone who sells a gun at a gun show is now a dealer. That would take congressional action.”
Meanwhile, while the US wait to see what executive orders Obama will implement, at the state level numerous gun-related laws just kicked in starting in the new year.
In Texas, beginning today, adults with the proper permits no longer need to hide the handguns they carry in their shoulder or belt holsters. Proponents of the new open carry law say making guns more visible will deter mass shootings.The bill became law after a spirited debate. A majority of the state's police chiefs opposed it.
"The question is: Does it make sense and is it good judgment to have a bunch of people running around with guns visible? And I think the answer is: Absolutely not," said Chief Art Acevedo of Austin.
While Texas is easing gun regulations, starting Friday in California it will be illegal for holders of concealed carry permits to bring handguns to school campuses. Meanwhile, the city of Albany, New York, will now require owners of firearms to store their guns in a secure container or install trigger locks. Repeat violators could face up to a one-year jail term.
Ironically, instead of implementing executive orders, what Obama should do instead if he wants to make an immediate change, is focus on his home state. According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago's first homicide of 2016 occurred barely 2 hours into the new year.
Two people were shot in the 4600 block of South St. Lawrence Avenue at about 2 a.m., police said. One of them, a 24-year-old man, reportedly had been arguing with someone who pulled out a gun and shot him in the chest. He was declared dead on the scene.
In the latest homicide, a 36-year-old man was shot in the chest and died at a hospital, said Nicole Trainor, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police Department. The shooting happened at 6:40 a.m. in the 1900 block of West Garfield Boulevard in the city’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, said Trainor. The victim was driving a sport-utility vehicle westbound on Garfield when he heard shots and realized he’d been wounded, said Officer Janel Sedevic, a spokeswoman for the Chicago Police. The 36-year-old was driven to the Artesian Avenue and 55th Street where an ambulance was called and he was taken to Stroger Hospital where he died, Trainor said.
In short, eradicating gun violence in Chicago (and D.C.) would likely do miracles for the average gun homicide rate across all of the US. Which is why it will never happen.
Meanwhile, if Obama wants to truly curb gun ownership at the national level, the solution there is also simple, as the following chart from the NYT reveals:
He should resign.
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Molon labe MF!
Aim Small.
+1 for The Patriot reference
Something very similar was also in 'American Sniper', when young Chris Kyle was killing his first deer.
He can suck my dick. Something, I'm sure, he needs no instruction on.
I'd rather he sucked your barrel.
Remember, whichever you choose will need to be vigorously scrubbed with brake parts cleaner and WD 40 afterwards. Carry on.
Indeed moochelle is feeding it hers ever night in any hole onigger has open
This guy is intentionally trying to start a civil war.
Top down bottom up inside out
this was a reminder to drop the bolt back in my rifle after holiday travel
@ Frankie,
It won't be a Civil War. That pits brother against brother. It will be a Revolution hunting down & picking off one by one these Pure Evil Criminal Psychopaths.
Tick tock, Mother Fuckers. Just thinking about it gets my Dick Hard.
If you are going hunting anytime soon, drop by and pick me up. i have some great binos and some cheap sunglasses.
Bad. Nationwide.
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Esther Be the One that shoots a machine gun, whether you like it or not. ;-)
Just admit it . . . we'd all really love to get some payback from the fucksticks who have driven this great nation into the lawless tyranny we find ourselves in today.
Actually I could see the Republic of Texas and a few western states telling .gov to go %$## themselves with Cesear responding by sending his Praetorian Guard to arrest a governer. THAT would set it off.
Believe it or not, go a little over fifty miles from the coast (in some places much less than that) in California and you have those types of people. The problem is that we are dwarfed by the LA/SF population that are decidedly morons. From the Myers Flat weed farmer to the San Diego accountant is a world of conservatism with relatively small pockets of liberals.
That is a possibility, you know.
I think the Israeli-Neocons are in a bad spot just now, it is all falling apart on their side, opposition is coalescing.
Falling apart : there is no credible enemy on the planet. Vlad has been such a disappointment, such a sensible guy, we just haven't been able to goad him hinto anything stupid. Everything very well played, he is rallying the world's opposition against us, and there is more than tacit cooperation between Vlad and the European leaders, even including the rationals among the UK leaders.
At home and around the world, False Flags have pretty much lost their effects. Between the people who are certain that the government did them directly or indirectly, and those who realize "OK, nothing rational to do about that, and it is a low risk", the political result of the next FF is low and the risks rising. People are skeptical.
And ditto with the ME wars, those are no longer winning issues, what with the info that ISIS is entirely our guys who free-lance Paris and threaten the world entirely on their own, sort of a side-line, you know?
So what will Israeli-Neocons do for non-peace? If peace, they hang, you must remember.
If you think of the many Israeli-Neocon advisors in our various institutions and businesses as a disinfo operation like COINTELPRO was, feeding whatever lies produce the worst possible results in your enemy's ranks, you will have a correct picture. You know where they are, those are the places where nobody can discuss 9/11 the False Flag operation against America, the Treason that they will not allow to be discussed. The Treason we are going to hang a lot of people with when we get this straighted out.
Of course, when fascism comes to America, it will come from the left.
Yep! McCarthy and Cleon Skousen tried to warn us decades ago that communists were infiltrating every important strata of society. And now we have the ideological spawn of Ayers and Alinsky in the White House. They have one year left to implement their diabolical plans:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ
Thanks for mentioning Skousen. I sat at his feet for a year in classes at BYU. He, more than anyone else, helped me realize how pervasive the secret combination is that exists solely to take away the freedom of all countries.
And Remember as always "these are just common sense restrictions"
Meaningless again Executive orders do not supersede the Bill of Rights. It's all feel good bill shit.
How to counter government actions against powder-based weaponry: git gud. Shoot well and your soon-to-be-evaporating high-cap mags will be meaningless.
For home invaders I like a disposable pump-action carbine. For long-range, a Shiloh Sharps in .45.
Executive order again? Is this a dictatorship?
Like his Turkish BFF I am sure he loves Hitler's power
" Is this a dictatorship?"
Yep.
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THE WORLD IS LAUGHING AT US!!!
see kids, guns are baaad for you! and we don't want you to hurt yourselves with those baaad guns, so we need to give them to mommy and daddy. mmmmkay?
So, the guy who allowed & protected his last AG, who smuggled illegal guns across an international border, is going to "consult" with the current AG he appointed to replace the international illegal gun smuggler, in order to make perfectly legal domestic gun transactions...illegal.
Do I have that about right?
Yessirree, and she wants to lock you up for speaking ill about people who want to chop your head off because you won't buy into their koo koo for cocoa-puffs religion. Has anyone seen the exit here on Insane Asylum Planet?
Lol dude you have a way with words. And exit would sure be a fine thing tho. Just how much more insane can any of our leaders possibly get is yet to be seen. Hillary is beyond any doubt a stark raving lunatic and Trump is not far behind her.
Is it the water, air, or wtf but the world has gone totally mad. Prolly the cell phones.
G.O.O.D. "Hillary is beyond any doubt a stark raving lunatic and Trump is not far behind her."
Trump carries a firearm. I would not trust Hillary with a water pistol.
I don't care if Trump carries a howitzer, he is a narcissistic megalomaniac and absolutely dangerous as hell.
The local Chamber of Commerce, the Lion's Club, maybe the local school district...I might trust Trump with leading one of those organizations. But no, I'm going on record now by saying that President Trump is not a good move for America.
Some of you Trump fans are forgetting who owns the media. If the media wanted Trump to go away, don't you figure they would stop giving him so much free press? If they are so angered by Trump's rhetoric, which they can plainly see is popular with many Americans (if the polls are to be believed), they could bury him on page 21 and everybody would go back to Shrub vs. Hitlery.
Has Trump ever said he would dismantle the Fed, or even audit it? When you show me how the man is truly anti-Central Bank, I might start considering him as a candidate...but then he and his hairpiece might get ventilated if he propounded something beneficial to Americans.
Yes. Lets have another go with a lying, establishment, law degree toting, career politician then, shall we?
Next he'll have Swiss guards.
OT: for whatever reason i was censored and it was clearly not racist, i sincerely apologize for any pwecious feewings hurt.
These fucken nut job so called democrats have poisoned the well so bad even local city and town assholes confiscate toy guns from children ... Toy guns you know cops and robbers ... Our idiocy on an epic level. The system needs a lot more than a good flushing ...
Shall not be infringed.
So simple even a 'constitutional scholar' could understand.
The question is; why is someone trying to deliberately forment a civil war?
Molon Labe.
The Left is tone-deaf on the patriots resolve to take up arms rather than drop their weapons. Its pure arrogance, and it WILL start a war here in the US.
Why the goading towards a civil war?
For the same reason a demolition crew uses controlled explosives to drop a building: to assert maximum control over the outcome.
With or without civil war, this train is coming off its tracks.
Happy New Year!
But to think the Left will control the outcome once 6+ million Americans start killing tyrants is an even greater arrogance. Put modern tech into the hands of this generation of patriot and add a ridiculously target-rich environment, and .gov could be non-effective and completely in preservation mode within seven days.
Comparing the levels of strangeness and mindlessness that I see echoed in the media vs real life, I think that MSM could not want citizens thinking coherently about important issues.
The model of 'news' is 'whatever thew news business decides it is', a fatal flaw at the definition level of an information flow for the benefit of anyone except MSM and their patrons, it seems to me.
Yet another thing we need to take back from the oligarchs as part of this coming reformation of our world.
Their nihilism is manifesting as a death wish.
Go ahead Barky, make that order. Make 90M or so us instantly criminals.
Go ahead... See what happens.
Watch for a big demand for 3d printers and small hobby mills.
More than half of gun deaths are suicide. Most of the rest is gangs and drugs related
It's heeeere. The guys funding ISIS want your guns. Being right sucks doesn't it?
... at which point a long list of Republican Governors will finally come out and say, we don't recognize your unconsitutional, bullshit, illegal executive orders.
We can hope this is true.
Unfortunately, I don't live in a State with one of these Governors. I took a look at all the anti-2nd Amendment, un-constitutional statuates that took effect this morning in Kalifornia, and I'm appalled. I think this is the year this 60-something, 4th Generation Native-born Californian heads for Arizona. It's time to vote with my feet. No more tax liability to this FSA and illegal invader infested shithole. I'm gone in 16.
Glad to have you move in. The entire area of the Prescott Valley, Cottonwood area, all rural areas pretty much any town except Sedona (and they are surrounded by us) are in complete agreement with you. Stay away from South Pheonix because it's a shit hole, you probably don't want to be too close to the border and Scottsdale is about 50/50, it's really not that bad.
The sun is always shining and we have plenty of water especially North of the Pheonix Valley. Property prices are slowly starting to drop and you will be astonished at the lack of regulation in many areas of your life. My license expires in 2041, I don't register my dog and I can carry a gun without a permit anywhere I want.