“If a father wants to give a firearm to his son… these guys would have him locked away in jail because he didn’t get government permission to have a transaction vetted by some government computer before he did so”, Dorr said. He said he’s seen them like this only once before: after the December 2012 murder of 20 children and six adults at an elementary school in Sandy Hook, Connecticut. She said that the President should work on enforcing existing laws instead.
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“Right now we’re basically helping them [criminals]”, Bonavia said. But it was to the point where they didn’t care.
“Unfortunately, you only have the two extremes involved in the dialogue – the far left, that wants to control everything, and the far right that wants to control nothing”.
(SWHC), the world’s largest arms-maker, surged 12 percent Tuesday ahead of Obama’s announcement of new executive actions to help curb gun violence. And the cases in LEPD Firearms have been opening and closing nonstop for a month.
In another boost to the industry, data released on Monday from the FBI’s Adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which serves as a proxy to overall consumer demand in the firearms industry, showed a jump of 37.6 percent in December. The state set a yearly record in 2015 as well, with 885,086 checks. There are other parts of the country, perhaps in Oklahoma or Texas, where the state gun laws are a little more loose. Miami-Dade had the highest.
“He’s been voted the gun salesman of the decade”, Williamson said.
Philbrick supports more focus on mental health screenings.
President Obama’s decision to use the power of his office to enact stricter gun laws certainly has people talking in the halls of Congress and at local gun stores.
Steve Anderson, a former Des Moines police officer and current owner of Training Specials in Ankeny, said sales in his four-hour class for gun permits and renewals are soaring.
Renault, for example, said that yesterday alone, his shop made a third of its monthly sales total.
“Those people are already registered as dealers”, he said.
Stock for another gun manufacturer, Sturm Ruger, also rose almost 7 percent, reaching $66.26 at its peak intraday value.
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In the Twin Tiers, people have mixed opinions after watching President Obama address the nation on the topic of gun control. “These aren’t exclusively recommendations which are well within my legal authority & the chief branch, still they are additionally ones in that the overwhelming majority of the American people, together with gun house owners, support me doing”, Obama told reporters on Monday. If only he put as much time and effort into dealing with Congress, maybe he’d actually get a piece of legislation – something he hardly tried during his first term.
