Obama is going after private gun sales at gun shows once again, and this time with an executive order designed to ‘reinterpret existing law’. That’s right, it doesn’t matter if the law doesn’t allow for Obama’s plans to ban private gun sales. He’ll just wave his magic pen and reinterpret the law to do whatever he wants:
LA TIMES – Since then, White House officials have been trying to draft an executive order that would effectively reinterpret existing law to require all or most such sales to go through the background check system.
But despite Obama’s visible frustration with the lack of action on guns, figuring out a solution has proved complicated. Many had expected the White House to announce plans for an executive order in time for the anniversary on Dec. 14 of the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. That now seems less likely.
Requiring background checks for weapons sold at gun shows might not have had any effect on Wednesday’s shooting in San Bernardino, in which 14 people were killed. So far, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has determined that two of the weapons used in the assault were legally purchased at a gun shop in Corona.
But White House officials and their allies continue to see expanding the background check system as the most promising avenue to reduce at least some of the deaths caused by guns.
Federal law requires gun stores and other regular sellers to get federal licenses and conduct background checks. But the law offers an exemption to hobbyists, collectors and others who sell guns but are not formally considered to be gun dealers.
Thousands of guns are sold in those private sales every year, a volume that Obama believes helps to fuel what he sees as an epidemic of shootings.
Officials have been scouring through state and local efforts looking for successful programs that have reduced gun violence and searching for multi-layered ways to attack what they see as a scourge.
“That work includes looking at the gun show loophole,” said one White House official involved in the work. “But taking administrative action in this space is enormously complicated, with complex and intertwined policy, legal and operational considerations to take into account.”
“That process,” the official said, “is very much underway.”
As they point out, this executive order would have had no effect on this last terrorist attack or many of them for that matter. Even the Newtown shooter who killed all those children used a legally purchased gun.
And the ones that weren’t purchased legally…well, they were obtained illegally anyway. How do you stop that?
Another useless proposal designed to take our gun rights away by a dictator wannabe. That’s all this is.