Obama Plans Executive Action To Close Gun Sale Loophole
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Source: Talking Points Memo
WASHINGTON (AP) Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations.
Four months after a gun control drive collapsed spectacularly in the Senate, President Barack Obama added two more executive actions to a list of 23 steps the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obamas intent to show he hasnt lost sight of a cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms.
The Obama administration is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register guns.
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Just Saying
(1,799 posts)I'm glad to see him acting on issues that most Americans agree on but an obnoxious (and well financed) minority have successfully blocked.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)go so far as to forge a UN document ... which any idiot can find on Snopes let alone if you print it out it looks fake. UN Documents are not blurry and the QR code codes to a real document.
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)Maybe you're responding to the wrong post?
Deep13
(39,154 posts)...the proposed UN small arms treaty.
I missed that UN documents he or she is referring to.
Judi Lynn
(160,415 posts)Deep13
(39,154 posts)wild bird
(421 posts)unless the next President re-authorizes them, they will expire on Jan. 20, 2016.
That's why it's so important to get another progressive Dem elected President.
valerief
(53,235 posts)progressoid
(49,928 posts)HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)Yes, even to FAMILY. They should have to pass Background Checks also. I don't like the "Honor System". Why TRUST Mom, Pop, or Uncle Joe?
This is my pet peeve.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Your freedom is at stake! He's un-American and will strike, delete the 2nd Amendment. What a effing Nazi, Commie, Socialist Pig!!!!!!!
And those are the nicer comments.
HolyMoley
(240 posts)In reality though, this is born out of spite, sour grapes, anger and frustration with the NRA and Congress.
I'd wager that the braintrusts that came up with this scheme, fully realize that none of this will have any impact or effect on firearms related crime or violence. It's only purpose is to send a 'fuck you' message to the opposition: 'if I can't have it my way, well then, lets see how you like these apples'.