Obama, who will devote time this year to campaigning for Democrats running for November elections, vowed he would not campaign for any candidate who did not back gun reforms.
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This may well be true, but couldn’t we stand to tweak them a bit? “Gun lovers wear their integrity on their sleeves”.
She also said that gun violence can hurt the taxpayer.
Still, questions were raised on the effectiveness of his proposals, which include an executive order clarifying the definition of who is in the business of selling guns and therefore subject to licensing and to performing background checks on gun buyers. He noted that the NRA’s headquarters was “just down the street” from the town hall venue but that the group had refused to participate. “I don’t think the people are as with him as he thinks”.
“We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be harassed or intimidated for engaging in lawful, constitutionally-protected activity”, declared the NRA in response to the president’s announcement. Todd said. “We don’t know that, that’s the thing that’s scary”.
“I grew up mostly in Hawaii, and other than hunting for wild pig, which they do once in a while there’s not the popularity of hunting and sportsmanship with guns as much as there are in other parts of the country”, he said. “As it is now, they’re working the state system”.
At a campaign event in New Hampshire on Thursday, Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said Obama was on a mission to undermine the rights guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution. Let’s take “universal” background checks, Obama’s signature gun-control scheme.
KEVIN LAMARQUE/REUTERS President Obama speaks to Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu during Thursday’s town hall meeting.
President Bill Clinton signed the Brady Bill in 1993, which called for a five-day waiting period during background checks. I would hope you would agree with that.
Too many on the “anti-gun” side have convinced themselves that most gun owners are irresponsible and just trying to stockpile weapons for the fun of it. “But he should have gone through Congress”. “Put them in jail, no parole. And I don’t blame the government, because there is only one person to blame here: The man or woman who chose to kill”, Kyle wrote. Holloway said. “The weapon of choice in Philadelphia is baseball bats”.
THE FACTS: The effect of this is unclear because the government already requires gun dealers to report all lost or stolen guns within 48 hours of discovering that they are missing.
Recognizing that some shooting incidents also have revealed inadequacies in access to mental health care, the president also asked Congress to authorize a $500 million increase for that objective. Individuals who make only “occasional sales” from their personal collections are exempt. His new guidance defines a dealer as one whose “principal motive” is profit.
Earlier this week, President Barack Obama announced that he will sign executive orders that expand the size and scope of federal monitoring of the acquisition and use of guns -traditionally a matter left to the states – and he will interpret the laws in novel ways, establish rules and impose obligations that Congress rejected, and prosecute those who defy his new system.
Under current law, a gun sale can go forward if a check is not completed within three days.
And who in Congress can reasonably object to the president’s plan to beef up federal processing of background checks by hiring more personnel?
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However, the Obama administration now warns that you could be convicted “for only one or two transactions”, with penalties up to five years and fines up to $250,000.
