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raybond  - posted
What's Next on Gun Control: Obama and the Loophole
Paul Barrett,Bloomberg 2 hours 15 minutes ago .
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The next shoe to drop on gun control may come by mid-January, when President Barack Obama is expected to issue an executive order requiring everyone "in the business" of selling firearms to perform background checks.

Wait a second, you might be saying. Doesn't federal law already oblige gun retailers to do computerized criminal checks via the Federal Bureau of Investigation's data base? Yes and no.

Yes, when it comes to federally licensed dealers. But no, when you're talking about people who lack federal licenses and sell guns from their personal collections.

The problem is that an awful lot of firearms are sold in the latter fashion by individuals who aren't technically gun retailers but who sell weapons at weekend gun shows or from their homes. Forthcoming research by the Harvard School of Public Health estimates that 40 percent of all gun transfers occur without background checks (that's the so-called gun show loophole). Presumably the background-check gap permits some criminals and mentally disabled people to buy guns who otherwise might be stopped.

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Following another a year of shooting massacres of Americans, Obama has let it be known from his holiday retreat in Hawaii, through unidentified advisers, that soon after New Years Day he plans to follow through on plans to expand the definition of who's "in the business" of selling firearms—and who's thus required to perform background checks. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, among others, has strongly backed this idea, and now Obama appears ready to make its implementation one of the first major acts of his final year in office.

Another fan of expanded background checks: Michael Bloomberg, owner of Bloomberg LP and founder of Everytown for Gun Safety, the nation's leading nonprofit advocating tougher regulation of firearms. Bloomberg visited Obama at the White House last week to discuss gun-safety strategies.

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The timing of the expected Obama move on background checks guarantees it will receive a hostile reaction from gun-rights advocates, thousands of whom will gather next month in Las Vegas for the firearm industry's annual Shooting, Hunting & Outdoor Trade Show, known as SHOT.

An ironic twist is that many of the attendees at SHOT each year are federally licensed bricks-and-mortar gun dealers who sometimes concede privately that they have no real problem with all gun sellers being forced to do background checks. These full-time retailers resent competition from casual unlicensed sellers at gun shows.

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But the National Rifle Association's orthodoxy—that any additional gun control is merely a first step toward bans and confiscation—holds sway in the firearms world, making outward expressions of support among gun sellers for Obama's proposal unlikely. While the enormous gathering in Las Vegas isn't technically an NRA event, the group's strong anti-Obama stance will almost certainly be evident there, and a fresh proposal to stiffen regulation may have the effect of pouring gasoline on a fire already burning hot.

There will probably be calls to challenge Obama's authority to broaden the background check mandate without congressional involvement. Lawsuits and objections from pro-gun Republicans on Capitol Hill will likely follow, as has happened with other efforts by the administration to use executive authority in the environmental arena.
Another sure thing: Texas Senator Ted Cruz and other Republican presidential candidates will condemn the Obama proposal. In other words, the Great American Gun Debate will continue in 2016.
 
Relentless.  - posted
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Peaser  - posted
Obama is waiting for Congress to act. Trying to ban semi-auto shotguns and pistols: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text
 
glassman  - posted
quote:
Originally posted by Peaser:
Obama is waiting for Congress to act. Trying to ban semi-auto shotguns and pistols: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4269/text

i sure hope that bill is a joke.
it is so poorly written that it will ban most firearms.
here's why:
(D) A semiautomatic pistol that has the capacity to accept a detachable magazine and any 1 of the following:

“(i) A threaded barrel.

“(ii) A second pistol grip.

“(iii) A barrel shroud.

“(iv) The capacity to accept a detachable magazine at some location outside of the pistol grip.

“(v) A semiautomatic version of an automatic firearm.

notice it says "the capability to accept"... that wording doesn't mean that it illegal to have that part on your gun it means th egun is illegal IF IT CAN have that part installed on it. As an ex-gunner in the navy, i assure you that nearly any configuration of parts useful or ornamental can be made to install on any gun...
hence the law has no limits on it's intent.
 
CashCowMoo  - posted
What a joke. Trying to go after weapons that are rarely used in crime, but look scary. The NRA is demonized, yet its not NRA members going out and doing the killing. This is liberal logic.
 
Peaser  - posted
I agree glassman.

Cash, "liberal logic" is a great oxymoron!
 
Relentless.  - posted
Bammy is apparently announcing his EO's tomorrow before lunch from the oval office.

Primarily he is going to redefine what a private seller is, thereby reducing the number of people allowed to sell at gunshows without performing background checks.

Mind you less than 2% of guns used in crimes are bought from gun shows...
 
Relentless.  - posted
The funny thing is, every gunshow I've ever been to had prices so inflated that I would never purchase a gun there.

The last one I went to a particular rip-off of choice was a G26 which was clearly a gen 2 and absolutely beat to chit. Scratches and gouges all over the plastic. Slide gouged all to hell.

$529 Firm on the tag.. lol.
 
Peaser  - posted
Where is he going to raid funds, to pay for this?
 
CashCowMoo  - posted
He even brought out the tears today to get sympathy.
 
Peaser  - posted
It was pathetic.
 



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