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This week, President Obama announced that his administration will undertake a series of executive actions to “keep guns out of the wrong hands.” The White House describes these steps in its Fact Sheet:
The President will discuss the plan on Tuesday, and take questions in a televised live town hall meeting on Thursday night.
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I don't know if this is completely true, but in Obama's Press Conference he stated anyone selling a gun must now get a license and do background checks. Does that mean Individuals selling to individuals must do this now? I believe he wants to see that happen!!!.
FACT SHEET:
Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on too many communities across the country. Over the past decade in America, more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence—and millions more have been the victim of assaults, robberies, and other crimes involving a gun. Many of these crimes were committed by people who never should have been able to purchase a gun in the first place. Over the same period, hundreds of thousands of other people in our communities committed suicide with a gun and nearly half a million people suffered other gun injuries. Hundreds of law enforcement officers have been shot to death protecting their communities. And too many children are killed or injured by firearms every year, often by accident. The vast majority of Americans—including the vast majority of gun owners—believe we must take sensible steps to address these horrible tragedies.
The President and Vice President are committed to using every tool at the Administration’s disposal to reduce gun violence. Some of the gaps in our country’s gun laws can only be fixed through legislation, which is why the President continues to call on Congress to pass the kind of commonsense gun safety reforms supported by a majority of the American people. And while Congress has repeatedly failed to take action and pass laws that would expand background checks and reduce gun violence, today, building on the significant steps that have already been taken over the past several years, the Administration is announcing a series of commonsense executive actions designed to:
1. Keep guns out of the wrong hands through background checks.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is making clear that it doesn’t matter where you conduct your business—from a store, at gun shows, or over the Internet: If you’re in the business of selling firearms, you must get a license and conduct background checks.
ATF is finalizing a rule to require background checks for people trying to buy some of the most dangerous weapons and other items through a trust, corporation, or other legal entity.
Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch has sent a letter to States highlighting the importance of receiving complete criminal history.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is overhauling the background check system to make it more effective and efficient. The envisioned improvements include processing background checks 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and improving notification of local authorities when certain prohibited persons unlawfully attempt to buy a gun. The FBI will hire more than 230 additional examiners and other staff to help process these background checks.
2. Make our communities safer from gun violence.
The Attorney General convened a call with U.S. Attorneys around the country to direct federal prosecutors to continue to focus on smart and effective enforcement of our gun laws.
The President’s FY2017 budget will include funding for 200 new ATF agents and investigators to help enforce our gun laws.
ATF has established an Internet Investigation Center to track illegal online firearms trafficking and is dedicating $4 million and additional personnel to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.
ATF is finalizing a rule to ensure that dealers who ship firearms notify law enforcement if their guns are lost or stolen in transit.
The Attorney General issued a memo encouraging every U.S. Attorney’s Office to renew domestic violence outreach efforts.
3. Increase mental health treatment and reporting to the background check system.
The Administration is proposing a new $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care.
The Social Security Administration has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to include information in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm for mental health reasons.
The Department of Health and Human Services is finalizing a rule to remove unnecessary legal barriers preventing States from reporting relevant information about people prohibited from possessing a gun for specific mental health reasons.
4. Shape the future of gun safety technology.
The President has directed the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security to conduct or sponsor research into gun safety technology.
The President has also directed the departments to review the availability of smart gun technology on a regular basis, and to explore potential ways to further its use and development to more broadly improve gun safety.
Congress should support the President’s request for resources for 200 new ATF agents and investigators to help enforce our gun laws, as well as a new $500 million investment to address mental health issues.
Because we all must do our part to keep our communities safe, the Administration is also calling on States and local governments to do all they can to keep guns out of the wrong hands and reduce gun violence. It is also calling on private-sector leaders to follow the lead of other businesses that have taken voluntary steps to make it harder for dangerous individuals to get their hands on a gun. In the coming weeks, the Administration will engage with manufacturers, retailers, and other private-sector leaders to explore what more they can do.
New Actions by the Federal Government
Keeping Guns Out of the Wrong Hands Through Background Checks
The most important thing we can do to prevent gun violence is to make sure those who would commit violent acts cannot get a firearm in the first place. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which was created by Congress to prevent guns from being sold to prohibited individuals, is a critical tool in achieving that goal. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the background check system has prevented more than 2 million guns from getting into the wrong hands. We know that making the system more efficient, and ensuring that it has all appropriate records about prohibited purchasers, will help enhance public safety. Today, the Administration is announcing the following executive actions to ensure that all gun dealers are licensed and run background checks, and to strengthen the background check system itself:
Making Our Communities Safer from Gun Violence
In order to improve public safety, we need to do more to ensure smart and effective enforcement of our gun laws and make sure that criminals and other prohibited persons cannot get their hands on lost or stolen weapons. The Administration is therefore taking the following actions:
Increase Mental Health Treatment and Reporting to the Background Check System
The Administration is committed to improving care for Americans experiencing mental health issues. In the last seven years, our country has made extraordinary progress in expanding mental health coverage for millions of Americans. This includes the Affordable Care Act’s end to insurance company discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, required coverage of mental health and substance use disorder services in the individual and small group markets, and an expansion of mental health and substance use disorder parity policies, all of which are estimated to help more than 60 million Americans. About 13.5 million more Americans have gained Medicaid coverage since October 2013, significantly improving access to mental health care. And thanks to more than $100 million in funding from the Affordable Care Act, community health centers have expanded behavioral health services for nearly 900,000 people nationwide over the past two years. We must continue to remove the stigma around mental illness and its treatment—and make sure that these individuals and their families know they are not alone. While individuals with mental illness are more likely to be victims of violence than perpetrators, incidents of violence continue to highlight a crisis in America’s mental health system. In addition to helping people get the treatment they need, we must make sure we keep guns out of the hands of those who are prohibited by law from having them. Today, the Administration is announcing the following steps to help achieve these goals:
Shaping the Future of Gun Safety Technology
Tens of thousands of people are injured or killed by firearms every year—in many cases by guns that were sold legally but then stolen, misused, or discharged accidentally. Developing and promoting technology that would help prevent these tragedies is an urgent priority. America has done this in many other areas—from making cars safer to improving the tablets and phones we use every day. We know that researchers and engineers are already exploring ideas for improving gun safety and the tracing of lost or stolen guns. Millions of dollars have already been invested to support research into concepts that range from fingerprint scanners to radio-frequency identification to microstamping technology.
As the single largest purchaser of firearms in the country, the Federal Government has a unique opportunity to advance this research and ensure that smart gun technology becomes a reality—and it is possible to do so in a way that makes the public safer and is consistent with the Second Amendment. Today, the President is taking action to further this work in the following way:
Quote From DOJ Head; “We will be looking for those individuals who seek to avoid registering [their firearms],” Attorney General Loretta Lynch.
Today, the President picked up his “phone and his pen” and continued his assault on the Second Amendment.
On the presidential website, the President declared war on senior citizens, and on private individuals who, in some cases, sell as few as one firearm.
Those are just the highlights. There is much more, and you can read additional analysis of the President’s imperial diktathere.
But bottom line: Having failed to get gun control legislation passed in Congress, Obama is doing what he always does when he can’t get what he wants.
He’s circumventing Congress and enacting “legislation” by executive fiat.
You can be sure that Gun Owners of America will be doing everything in its power to fight these edicts tooth-n-nail. More on this below.
Open Season on Seniors and Other Law-Abiding Gun Owners
Gun Owners of America alerted you back in July of last year that Obama wanted to ban Social Security beneficiaries from owning guns, if they are deemed as being unable to manage their financial affairs.
With this new executive action, that policy has now been officially announced:
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to ensure that appropriate information in its records is reported to NICS [and] will cover appropriate records of the approximately 75,000 people each year.
The President also wants to take America back 30 years -- prior to the reforms in the Firearms Protection Act of 1986 -- and unleash a horde of additional ATF agents to entrap law-abiding Americans who are supposedly “engaged in the business” of selling firearms.
What constitutes being “engaged in the business” -- selling 50 guns ... 25 guns ... 15 guns ... or 5 guns? While the President’s lawless decree doesn’t say, it does suggest the number could be as low as “one or two transactions.”
So if you’re financially strapped in this Obama economy and want to make a few bucks selling off the firearms in your home, look out. You could be “sentenced up to five years in prison and fined up to $250,000” if you are subsequently determined to have “engaged in the business” of selling an unspecified number of firearms without a license.
The alternative, of course, is that you voluntarily become an FFL and conduct background checks on every gun you sell -- guns that you legally bought as a private citizen.
Just as the President admitted that ObamaCare would serve as a first step to single-payer (aka, socialistic) health care, so will these gun control regs push us one-step closer to universal gun registration, which is what the President actually wants.
Dumb Guns for Everyone
The Hypocrite in Chief also is directing several federal agencies “to review the availability of smart gun technology on a regular basis, and to explore potential ways to further its use and development....”
Of course, such a move is entirely hypocritical, given that the President has made no indication that his Secret Service agents will also be carrying these dumb guns.
As stated by Breitbart’s A.W.R. Hawkins: “When it comes to his personal safety, Obama appears to remain a big fan of traditional firearms.”
What Can Gun Owners Do?
The easiest solution is to elect a pro-gun president.
While several presidential hopefuls have already indicated they would repeal the Obama’s executive actions if elected, the GOA-endorsed candidate, Ted Cruz, has promised to erase Obama’s gun control legacy.
"[The President] has a phone and he has a pen, but if you live by the pen you die by the pen, and my pen has got an eraser," Sen. Cruz said.
Second, Gun Owners of America will be working with legislators on Capitol Hill to “defund” the president’s unlawful orders. This is the preferred “short term” approach because these no-funding provisions can be attached to “must pass” bills that the president will sign. Stay tuned for future alerts to this effect.
Third, GOA and its foundation are pursuing swift legal action. We have already fought battles like this -- and won.
For example, GOA was recently involved in the legal defense of Bob Arwady in Houston, who was wrongly accused of dealing in firearms without a license --- and he was acquitted by a jury. You can read more on this case here.
Lastly, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul (R) introduced legislation last month to that declares that any executive action by Obama that infringes upon the Second Amendment rights of all Americans “shall have no force or effect.”
This is a good bill (S. 2434), and we will pursue it if we think there is any chance of pushing it past a presidential veto.
GOA Announces a New Executive Director
Finally, I am pleased to announce that a new executive director became the official spokesman for Gun Owners of America on January 1 of this year.
As you know, Larry Pratt has guided our organization for almost 40 years as the organization’s executive director. He will remain quite active as GOA’s Executive Director Emeritus -- conducting media interviews and hosting his weekly radio program, the GOA NewsHour Radio.
Erich Pratt, who has served in various roles with the organization for over 25 years -- and for the last decade as the Director of Communications -- has now stepped into the role of Executive Director.
For all of the leadership and staff at GOA, I want to wish you a Happy New Year. It’s unfortunate that we must begin 2016 with our freedoms under attack.
But that is why Gun Owners of America is here, fighting a no-compromise battle to protect your right to keep and bear arms.
Thank you for your support and for your activism. It’s what gives us the encouragement to continue fighting for our rights.
Sincerely,
Tim Macy
Chairman
Gun Owners of America
Obama's Executive Dictatorship is being challenged over the unconstitutional actions he took with his new grab for guns.
See some of the media stories;
http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-just-got-caught-red-handed-a...
http://conservativetribune.com/obama-tries-grab-guns/
If you support the American Rights spelled out in the Constitution send letters/e-mails of support and thanks to the authors of the articles, the media that posted the articles, and the people who stood up for the Constitutional Rights of all of us.
Of course the Left has it's 2 cents worth in as well, but they still are part and parcel of the Socialist agenda to disarm Americans;
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/06/hey-nra-and-republ...
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-had-perfect-response-critics-184206014....
If you are sick and tired of our Communist/Muslim Dictator and his destruction of all things American, send your letters and e-mails of condemnation and protest to the Lefty author purveyors of this trash, and to the papers that ran them and let them know their time in the sun is over and to crawl back under the rock with the rest of the vermin there..
Thank you for the links, I've learned a lot from the original post, and will use these to spread the information to family and friends.
Obama may think he can make doctors snitch on their patients to the Federal Government, but it is the states that issue Licenses to practice.
Source;http://judsonphillips.com/your-doctor-the-snitch-how-to-get-even/
Here's what you can do, and if enough people do it the license will be pulled;
Excerpt from article:
Obama may, through executive order, be able to modify parts of the Gun Control Act, but he may not modify state rules and regulations regarding privacy.
So what happens if your doc becomes an Obama snitch?
Every state has a medical licensing board. They have different names, but they all have the same functions. The license doctors and then they enforce discipline when doctors screw up.
If your doctor snitches on you to the Obama Regime, your answer is not to file a lawsuit. Your answer is to file a disciplinary complaint against your doctor with the state medical board. I’d go further than that. If your doctor starts asking you questions about guns in your home, switch doctors and file a disciplinary complaint.
In almost every state, if not all of them, disciplinary complaints against doctors are privileged. That means the doctor cannot sue you for filing a disciplinary complaint.(Check with your States Licensing Board) The doctor then has to answer that complaint. Depending on the facts and the laws or regulations of that particular state, the doctor could have their medical license suspended for a period of time or even revoked.
Read the article and pass it forward to everyone you know.
Obama lets the crocodile tears flow
By Carol Brown
If President Obama is considering a second career in acting, he may want to get a day job. His performance during Tuesday’s press conference on executive action tyrannical order on gun control was weak. In fact, the entire high-drama presentation was a despicable display of a sick little man. (Reported by the AP here.)
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Yes Charles, it was weak, but consider who he was playing to. The brain damaged Progressive zombies that hang on his every word.
What we need to do as quickly as possible is to mount a counter offensive of massive protests to every member of Congress especially the Progressive Democrats and let them know the vast majority of people will be coming out to remove them from office in 2016 and again in 2018, and if there are any remaining Senators again in 2020. We seriously need a coalition of people from all walks of life to get in on this if we are going to remain Free, and if our Constitution has any chance of surviving that creep in the White House.
You know? I thought we were watching Boehner, again. What are we raising in our government? Big cry babies, or a bunch of silly little men.
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