President Obama - "Gun Control"

5/8/12 Obama Administration threatens veto over important NRA-backed provision!It comes as no surprise that the Obama Administration put out a Statement of Administration Policy saying that President Obama’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R. 5326. (FY2013 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations bill). To see the statement, please click here. Apparently, one of the reasons the President would veto H.R. 5326 is because of a NRA-backed general provision preventing funding for the new and unauthorized multiple sales reporting and registration plan proposed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). On Thursday, April 26, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations approved this general provision offered by Congressman Rehberg (R-Mont.), by a vote of 30-19. Without this funding restriction, the BATFE could continue to circumvent the will of Congress by collecting information on multiple-sales of long guns by Executive Branch mandate and then, centralizing records of thousands of Americans’ gun purchases, without any legal authority. Please contact your member of Congress and tell them to leave this important provision in the bill. You can contact your member of Congress at (202) 225-3121 or by email. Read more here on NRAILA.org

• 5/8/12 Obama Administration threatens veto over important NRA-backed provision! It comes as no surprise that the Obama Administration put out a Statement of Administration Policy saying that President Obama’s senior advisors would recommend that he veto H.R. 5326
• 1/13/12 Federal Court Upholds Obama/Holder Gun Registration Scheme; Congressional Action Needed Devised by Attorney General Eric Holder’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the plan requires all of the 8,700 firearm dealers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to report all sales of two or more semi-automatic rifles within five consecutive business days
• 12/29/11 President Obama's Anti-Gun Agenda Shows No Sign of Stopping Obama’s most lasting impact on gun control is likely to be through the federal court judges he appoints. His most visible appointments have been the gun-control advocates he has made to the Supreme Court.
• 11/16/11Obama Pushing Shooters Off Of Publicly Owned Lands Gun owners who have historically been able to use public lands for target practice would be barred from potentially millions of acres under new rules drafted by the Interior Department, the first major move by the Obama administration to impose limits on firearms.
• 10/27/11 Barack Obama accused of breaking transparency pledge. Mr Obama's justice department has proposed that if documents requested by the public are exempt from freedom of information laws, federal agencies should be able to "respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist."
• 10/17/11 NRA's LaPierre: Obama Will "Break The Back" Of 2nd Amendment In 2nd Term. National Rifle Association executive vice president Wayne LaPierre was mocked by progressives last month for claiming that there is a "massive Obama conspiracy" to "lull gun owners to sleep" by not taking any action on reducing gun violence in order to win re-election and then carry out his plot to eliminate the Second Amendment.
• Obama: Complete confidence in AG Holder amid Republican criticism of gun-running probe At a White House news conference, the president said Holder has been very aggressive in pursuing gun-running and cash transactions that support drug cartels in Mexico.
• Obama campaign organizing against gun owners. In addition to appointing two Supreme Court justices with clear records of contempt for our right to keep and bear arms, Obama has also stacked his administration with anti-gun zealots like Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Attorney General Eric Holder and far too many “czars” who are lifelong opponents of legal gun ownership.
• Wayne LaPierre: Obama Administration Resorts to Mob Tactics. President Obama and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder are now using this same mob-style tactic on American gun owners.
• Anti Civil Rights Legislation may land Obama Administration in court. Gun industry representatives said they would file lawsuits Wednesday
• Obama Nominates Anti-gun Activist to Country’s Second Most Important Court. As New York’s solicitor general, Halligan was one of the chief lawyers responsible for New York’s baseless and politically motivated efforts to bankrupt gun manufacturers
• House Committee Passes Amendment to Defund Illegal Obama Firearm Sales Reporting Requirement. The Amendment was passed by a vote of 25-16.
• NRA Statement on Obama Administration Decision to Require Rifle Sales Reporting
• Obama Administration Approves Illegal Multiple Sales Reporting Requirement. The BATFE has no legal authority to demand these reports, and the flood of new paperwork (BATFE estimates 18,000 reports per year) will waste scarce law enforcement resources that should be spent on legitimate investigations.
• Obama to Unveil New Gun Control Measures “The president directed the Attorney General to form working groups with key stakeholders to identify common sense measures that would improve American safety and security while fully respecting Second Amendment rights,”
• Obama: We're Working on Gun Control 'Under the Radar' "I just want you to know that we are working on it," Brady recalled the president telling them. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar."
• NRA Responds to President Obama's op-ed. "We read your editorial submission to the Arizona Star. However, to focus a national dialogue on guns - and not criminals and mental health issues - misses the point entirely"
• President Obama: We must seek agreement on gun reforms Is this the start of the White House campaigning for more anti civil rights legislation?
• NRA Strongly opposes the nomination of Andrew Traver to head BATFE. More anti-civil rights pandering from President Obama!
• Obama's backdoor gun ban. The Obama administration blocks import of WW2 era M1 Garands and Carbines.
• Members of Congress to Clinton: Revisit decision on M1 Rifles and Carbines U.S. senators and representatives from both sides of the aisle are urging Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to revisit the State Department's March 2010 decision disallowing the importation of M1 rifles and M1 carbines from South Korea.
• NRA backed measure signed into law by President Obama. Last week, the NRA-backed “Firearms Excise Tax Improvement Act of 2010” (H.R. 5552) was signed into law.
• Hillary Clinton and the U.N. Arms Treaty rumor. Contrary to this widely circulated e-mail, Hillary Clinton has not signed any small arms treaty.  She could not have done so, in fact, because no such treaty has yet been negotiated. 

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