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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People are much more civil to each other when everyone assumes that everyone is armed.
Republican Presidential Candidates regarding GUN BAN?????? Who will speak out??
This is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their Country.
Clinton has proposed the Australian gun (model) confiscation. What are the proposals and opposition of the Republicans??
The data behind the whole gun control debate is proof that Negros should not be allowed to own guns and women should not be allowed to vote.
That's the way it was in Switzerland a few decades ago, and when their bank secrecy laws actually meant something.
Of course the term Sovereign Country also meant something, compared to today.
Second Amendment quotes, mostly from the Founders.
They make it abundantly clear their Number One concern was not so much foreign invasion but domestic tyranny from an over-centralized government
For example: "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense? Where is the difference between having our arms in possession and under our direction and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?"- Patrick Henry
"Firearms stand next in importance to the constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence … from the hour the Pilgrims landed to the present day, events, occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispensable … the very atmosphere of firearms anywhere restrains evil interference — they deserve a place of honor with all that's good." - George Washington
The Federalist Papers are chock full of the Founders' warnings about an overbearing government and how to deal with it:
“If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual State. In a single State, if the persons intrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the different parcels, subdivisions, or districts of which it consists, having no distinct government in each, can take no regular measures for defense. The citizens must rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource; except in their courage and despair.” – Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 28,
Straight from the horses mouths. It doesn't get any plainer than that.
The only choices you ever had were to submit, or to kill the people who demand your guns.
It remains to be seen how this will play out ... but, my money is on submission.
Sorry to say that; but, the best predictor of future behaviour, is past behaviour.
Agreed. Right now, Not to far south of me in Burns Oregon, some of the guys that were at Bundy ranch are trying to protect a couple of ranchers from going to prison under terrorism charges. The militia are saying the Feds are acting unconstitutionally and have told the ranchers they would protect them from prison. The ranchers have said they've received threatening calls from government officials telling them to stop communicating with the militia. The militia is trying to gather support from the local community but the folks are telling them to go home. Even the ranchers are saying they dont want the help.
A conceal carry town is a polite town...just say'n
"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."
A month after "3 white males" murdered random people and two patsie's were murdered in cold blood.......
Third rail kills.
Pretty clear DC has made some promises that the guns will be grabbed by a not-too-distant date. I'm increasing the time I spend in 2016 doing live-fire drills involving movement. War is coming, and I aim for the tyrants to be on schedule for their dates with the hangman.
Obama can suck my hairy balls.
...and likely would...if you let him
Keep your balls in a kevlar pouch with a cup if you get around him!
I hear Wookies can rip balls right out of their sockets when they get upset. . .
If BHO does introduce gun control through executive orders, Donald Trump should add (and fulfill) one promise to his presidential campaign: reversal of BHO's gun control executive orders.
Most of you don't know this, but Trump attended a military academy.
Explains why he's a straight shooting, no nonsense, focused, organized and driven kind of guy.
Happy, healthy and election-succesful New Year to you and your family, Donald.
"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.
Chief of the faggot libtard capitol of Texas,most liberal arseholes in the state.
What difference does it make?,anyone drawing it, will be an instant TARGET.So it is uselss to worry about it.
So far I have seen ZERO open carriers,come summer it will be more prevalent due to heat.And as the 20yr old stats have shown, we Texans went batshit crazy with CCP's, Uh, not.
Give guns to Illiterate Rug Heads
take guns from Educated Americans..
there is a reason they are afraid of Educated Citizens
There seem to be a lot of mentally ill educated Americans out there though. Most of the illiterate Rug heads as you put it have legitimate needs for arms whereas Americans are addicted to guns like a junkie loves his skank.
Withdrawl symptoms are painful.
We're about to find out just how far along the NWO is by seeing how far these actions go. I'm guess they are on a rush schedule and this is premature, like everything else they fuck up trying to obtain some fairy tell bullshit but we shall see.
Anyone see the Harry Potter movie where Dolores Umbridge of the ministry put up a literal wall-full of laws by decree in record time after taking over Hogwarts, and then as a result of Fred and George Weasely's rather innocuous rebellious fireworks act, all those decrees simultaneously collapsed off the wall in a profound and symbolic statement?
It's like that.
My family and I love that scene, and are watching HP4 right now.
Hopefully the Shit Hits the Fan, long before the confiscations get rolling. Society breaks down nobody will be taking anybody's guns.
expect some crazy law being passed that says.. Gun Nutts, must share their extra firearms with their Non Gun Owning Libtard. or they will be confiscated by the police no longer answering 911 calls
So be it. Make ready
Anybody got any information on congressmen and senators that carry? That would be an interesting statistic. Tylers, ....anyone?????
The Old Man
Hopefully Obongo will once again be slapped down by the courts ASAP, as the entire administration ignores the rule of law, the Constitution and the will of the people. Summary: Fuck this traitorous roach.
The SCROTUS is dirrty, in case you didnt know. . .
To Hell with him. Won't get myself dirty F#$%ing him!
No doubt about it.
Sometime before this little purple lipped fuck is supposed to leave office there will be troops in the streets of American cities.
Martial Law will be the last straw that breaks the Camel's Back............
Most people would welcome real Martial Law (ie declared by the military after the civilian government folds- including the executive branch).
You won't see any serious gun control until Trump hands Hillary the Presidency after he bows out of the race out at the last minute.
Then comes the blood in the streets.
If you have guns, keep it to yourself.
It will be interesting to see what Americans are, really, made of.
Time for drug testing all state and federal leaders and employees. ....I think their all buzz out of their minds
Better buy some Under Armor compression. When Obama cuts rhe power, you don’t want to be in a position of trading guns for supplies.
Why don’t we get justice? Why do we get gun control, instead?
Affirmative action is not justice.
…70% of Obama's nominees have been women or minorities; Bill Clinton’s non-white-male appointments stand at 48.1%.
An affirmative-action- based judicial system going all the way to the US Supreme Court, appointing judges based on gender and race, means Americans can expect more repeated acts of judicial injustice. When the central authority of a nation is disintegrating, as said by Sir George Staunton at the end of the 18th century, many abuses of judicial power will have set in.
As of September 18, 2014, the total number of Obama Article III judgeship nominees to be confirmed by the United States Senate was 280, including two justices to the Supreme Court of the United States, 53 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals, 223 judges to the United States district courts…
…as of July 2015, Obama had gotten 311 judges installed nationwide
https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+judges+Obama+has+appointed&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
I like the photoshop Banzai did where he was holding a drone instead of the shotgun.
And speaking of gun control. Why did Uncle Sam purchase millions of rounds of 45 caliber hollow point bullets and Nato rounds?
Its likely all that ammo and weapons buys for allegedly DHS and other gubmit agencies wound up being dropped on pallets in ISIS and/or CIA favorite terrorist groups over the last few years to 'overthrow Assad' and other bullshit like that.
Give credit to the scum in power though - it's a win win for them - buy up ammo and weapons telling the dumbass libs that its like gun control and will make them safer, then send it all over to the ME to stir up shit and make the MIC and banksters richer in the process.
the army will be called home to disarm you
What's more, the Army will do it ... without complaint.
You are going to get a lesson in the consequences of misdirected adulation.
Recently: "The Bismarck. Wasn't that the ship that started WWII?" From the mouth of a "well educated" 28 year old.
I like small ham sandwiches with a side of old fashioned, made in a giant wood barrel, pickle.
Just don't put any restrictions on nail guns!
At what point do people simply tune out all politicians and simply go about their daily lives? It's quite simple: leave me alone, and I'll leave you alone. Fuck Congress. Fuck the president. Fuck the UN. Fuck Trump. Fuck Bernie. Fuck Hillary. Fuck the Constitution. Fuck the IRS. Fuck the government police. Just leave me the fuck alone. And I'll leave you alone.
It is coming and is a process. Already those paying attention know something is wrong. It isn't difficult to see. Massive uncontrolled immigration contrary to law and no attempt to stop it by authorities...to the contrary they sponsor it. If someone could explain the Middle East and who and what we are doing there I would like to hear the truth if they survived long enough to speak. The consistent rise in the markets while the world burns and the logical safe haven investments collapse. Thats logical? My point is only the totally distracted nitwits, mindless power groupies and meth heads are still gullible. The popularity of Trump is a symptom that many are no longer buying the crap. Trump represents "none of the above" for many. It is difficult to let go of the trust you have in your government, it takes time and is not done willingly but it is happening. Most on both sides still have their poker faces on as who wins the pot is still in doubt. Who is on which side remains hard to discern. If you want to be left alone and pledge to do the same you will have to remove the progressives from power first.
I think the Constitution was the best attempt you'll ever see at getting people to leave you alone. That's why the government wants to get rid of it so badly.
You may not have an interest in politics, but politicians have an interest in you.
buy all the ammo and guns you can. make sure you have a strong network of friends, family and people who can trust. do NOT use facebook or email for this.
automobiles, your local policeman, cleaning your guttters...all way more dangerous than guns.
also, we have a terrorist attack and we get more gun control on citizens? WTF. This makes as much sense as desiging IT and Internet snooping systems that DON'T FUCKING READ ARABIC.
The US Federal Government under Obama has become the Evil Empire.