Obama To Push Gun Control

[imschur]

[table][tr][td]Friday, January 28, 2011[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] To the dismay of the Brady Campaign and other gun ban groups, President Barack Obama didn’t address gun control during his State of the Union address on January 25^th. However, Newsweek reports that “in the next two weeks, the White House will unveil a new gun-control effort,” and that the White House confirms, “Obama will address the gun issue in a separate speech, likely early next month.” According to Newsweek, Obama believes that gun laws have been “too loose for much longer than just the past few weeks” following the murders in Tucson, Arizona.

Precisely what President Obama might have in mind is uncertain. His post-election transition website advocated reimposing the expired federal “assault weapon” ban, but that ban would clearly be irrelevant in the wake of a shooting that involved a firearm not covered by the old ban.

The President, a long-time gun control supporter, has been conspicuously silent on gun control restrictions since taking office.  Unfortunately, the same cannot be said of the anti-gun groups prodding him to support their agendas. Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which sent the President a long list of gun control recommendations in August of 2009, is proposing that all private sales of firearms be subject to checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System  (NICS)—which would have been irrelevant in Tucson, since the accused killer acquired his guns from a dealer. MAIG is also calling for “fixing” NICS. Among the many “fixes” the group has in mind is that “people who have been suspended or expelled from a federally funded college or university because of mental illness” and “people who are compelled by a court to take medication for mental illness or to get other mental health care” would be prohibited from possessing firearms. MAIG also proposes to extend the prohibition to anyone who has had a drug-related arrest, a failed drug test, an admission of drug use, or a drug-related conviction within the previous five years.

Concurrently, the Brady Campaign is throwing its support behind H.R. 308—the “more than 10 round” magazine ban introduced by Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-N.Y.)—and asks the group’s supporters to sign a petition urging “a few basic steps,” with neither the “steps” nor the intended recipient of the petition disclosed (to read a detailed fact sheet on H.R. 308, please click here).

The Violence Policy Center, which guided McCarthy in crafting her magazine ban bill, is supporting it with yet another of its countless “analyses”-- Accessories to Murder: High-Capacity Magazines—and a similar effort directed against the type of pistol used in Tucson. The VPC uses the opportunity to suggest, as it often does, that gun ownership is fading, by referring to standard magazines for self-defense handguns as a marketing tool the firearm industry uses to appeal to “its shrinking customer base.”  That's an interesting argument to hear from a group that has no members, while the number of guns possessed by Americans increases year after year.

The Coalition to Stop Gun Violence—VPC leader Josh Sugarmann’s employer back when the group was known as the National Coalition to Ban Handguns—advocates not merely running NICS checks on gun buyers, but “investigating” them as well. The group also insists that the Tucson shooting was the result of “insurrectionist rhetoric” the group blames on conservatives, various politicians, and the five justices who joined the Supreme Court’s Heller decision—rather than being the act of one deranged individual, as all available evidence suggests.

And, in a return to his modus operandi of vilifying gun shows and the purchase of firearms by show attendees, this week anti-gun Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), introduced legislation to “establish background check procedures for gun shows.” As usual, this bill is not about gun shows.  Rather, S. 35 is the latest rendition in a long line of Lautenberg-introduced bills that are nothing more than “solutions” in search of a problem.  Numerous government studies have determined that gun shows are an insignificant source of firearms misused in crime.

Which, if any, of these proposals and theories will get the president’s endorsement remains to be seen. But gun owners should be prepared: The second two years of President Obama’s term may be tougher than the first.[/td][/tr][/table]

[98Z5V]

Great.  Just having news like this hit the streets is what starts driving prices through the roof.  :(

[Madhouse]

Come on 2012!!!

[survivalshop]

It was only a matter of time before his supporters demand him to do some thing .

He has paid off a lot of his other backers already , who helped him get into office. Now it is time for him to coddle the anti's .

Just think how it will be if he gets another term .

One bright point is he and his puppet masters have really screwed things up & most people ,even the ones that voted for this A$$ clown , are now PO'ed at him & the Socialist movement .

[Matt.Cross]

I hate the phrase 'Gun Control'... Anyone with an IQ roughly equivalent to that of the common rock, knows full well that it's a progression towards the complete disarmament of law-abiding citizens. I guess the world would be a much happier place if unarmed citizens only had to worry about crooks coming after them with mostly clubs, knives, etc, and guns on a much smaller scale, given that they're still maniacs bent on hurting helpless people. I wonder how it would feel to be a LEO in an otherwise unarmed society, with a nice big sign on your back saying "Target me to obtain a deadly weapon!".

[Bfalcon00]

I couldn't agree more Matt. Although sometimes I wonder if its a fear thing that drives the gun control group. Makes me wonder if a majority have never held a firearm and only know, or think they know, what Hollywood shows them. If ya think of Arnold blazing away Terminator style things like assault weapon ban make more "sense".

[dlancello]

I just recieved my 5 pack deal from Armalite an the price was the same as normal. (150.00). I could have gotten other brands that i'm not familiar with cheaper. oh...I haven't even gotten my rifle yet :)

[308reloaded]

will they need to make knives illegal also, due to the slasher who just killed 4  in 28 hr killing spree

[benjammin]

I keep saying the best thing that could've happened to the firearms and ammunition manufacturers is that we elected a bunch of liberals to congress and the white house.  Their business in the past two years has been better than ever.

<munch>

[Matt.Cross]

What scares me considerably more than our government, is the number of people who blindly trust that they're making good decisions... The government will only ever be as stupid as the voting majority permit them to be. Scary!

[benjammin]

Amazing, I've observed a local retailer go through half a dozen pallets of ammo in the past two weeks.  They are not able to keep up with demand.  No special pricing, just regular retail.  There are a lot of people out there buying up as much ammo as they can right now.  I guess most folks around here are just expecting things to go badly.

[awesymoto]

if they take our 2nd amendment can we take their 1st? What ever happened to America having a d*ck between its legs and not a crack? I bet half those ass hats lobbying for gun control go home, and watch their kid sing to justin beiber, or go to the club, forgetting were at a war with terrorists in Afghanistan. But lawful ownership of firearms ohhhh noooooooo. damn hippies.

[308reloaded]

I want to know why(the gun grabbers) they hate firearms so much, and the people who own them,

simple question  but collectively they can not give a reasonable answer.  i t

[98Z5V]

Here's the NRA rebuttal to all this nonsense.  Great piece of work by the authors, I must add.  <thumbsup>

1683_.pdf

1685_.pdf

1687_.pdf

[308reloaded]

I can not get pdf's to open. can you check links?

[98Z5V]

There are no links - I directly uploaded them to the message.  Might be your computer settings or server firewalls, though.  <dontknow>

[imschur]

I think the confusion is the .pdf The downloads report being jpg's