An anti-gun group applauded the GOP approved $1.8 trillion end-of-the-year spending bill and tax package Saturday, claiming that it will boost gun control efforts and expand background checks.
In a Saturday statement Everytown praised increased funding for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It also cheered the removal of a proposal to sell surplus military guns.
Can someone get this posted on Facebook? This needs to get out there. I'm being blocked by Facebook from sending it.
Obama needs to watch this video and then address the real problem:
Under current laws, only licensed firearms dealers are required to conduct background checks on those trying to buy guns. What’s more, the only individuals considered “in the business” are ones who must apply to be dealers — but that leaves countless people selling firearms without registering.
“Currently many people, even those who sell tons of guns each year, just say that they aren’t ‘in the business,’ or ‘it’s just a hobby,’ in order to get out of the licensing and its attendant background check requirement,” the source told Roll Call. “Because what ‘in the business’ means is so unclear, it’s very difficult and thus very rare for people to be prosecuted under this standard.
A White House spokesman declined to comment on the status of the review and the expected coming executive action. Instead, he referred a reporter to Wednesday’s briefing, during which Earnest called GOP lawmakers’ resistance to changes the “central problem” in the administration’s push to enact tougher gun laws.
“So part of our solution is to consider the range of authorities that are vested in the executive branch to try to advance some of those common-sense policies,” Earnest said. “And we certainly do want to make sure that any sort of steps that the president would take have a strong legal basis in the law.”
The link in the OP is a tertiary story eminating from the now old saw story about redefining "in the business of firearms sales"
Not sure how you can arbitrarily set some number of sales, 50, 60, 70, 75 whatever, as defining "being in the business of sales" without the unenforcable regulation of every sale to be recorded/registered either by law or voluntarily. Would simply be a new regulation followed by the law abiding and ignored by criminals. Big Catch-22, zero net effect.
Talk without action - the normal M.O. of Obama on anything except Obamacare ... which was actually a product of congress and not the White House.
In his defence, as a Muslim, Christmas has little meaning over and above any other day to him.