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Obama's 'New Executive Actions' on Gun Control; Two New Measures: Weekly Standard

1) Keeping Surplus Military Weapons Off Our Streets: Because Korean Garands and M1 Carbines sold with FBI background checks are sooooooo dangerous
2) Closing a Loophole to Keep Some of the Most Dangerous Guns Out of the Wrong Hands: Limiting NFA Trusts

This man disgraces the Office of the President with new lows for pettiness, symbolism, shallowness, incompetency, and ineffectiveness.

This is payback, pure and simple. I'm afraid it's probably not the last. Make a stink!

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ACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence

 

Today, the Obama administration announced two new common-sense

executive actions to keep the most dangerous firearms out of the wrong

hands and ban almost all re-imports of military surplus firearms to

private entities. These executive actions build on the 23 executive

actions that the Vice President recommended as part of the comprehensive

gun violence reduction plan and the President unveiled on January 16,

2013.

Even as Congress fails to act on common-sense proposals, like

expanding criminal background checks and making gun trafficking a

federal crime, the President and Vice President remain committed to

using all the tools in their power to make progress toward reducing gun

violence.

Building on the 23 Executive Actions the President and Vice President Unveiled Last January

  • Last December, the President asked the Vice President to develop a

    series of recommendations to reduce gun violence. On January 16, 2013,

    they released these proposals, including 23 executive actions. With the

    first Senate confirmation of an ATF Director on July 31, 2013, the

    Administration has completed or made significant progress on 22 of the

    23 executive actions. The new executive actions unveiled today build on

    this successful effort.

Closing a Loophole to Keep Some of the Most Dangerous Guns Out of the Wrong Hands

  • Current law places special restrictions on many of the most dangerous

    weapons, such as machine guns and short-barreled shotguns. These

    weapons must be registered, and in order to lawfully possess them, a

    prospective buyer must undergo a fingerprint-based background check.

  • However, felons, domestic abusers, and others prohibited from having

    guns can easily evade the required background check and gain access to

    machine guns or other particularly dangerous weapons by registering the

    weapon to a trust or corporation.

  • I would like to see the numbers on exactly how many times that has happened.
  • At present, when the weapon is

    registered to a trust or corporation, no background check is run. ATF

    reports that last year alone, it received more than 39,000 requests for

    transfers of these restricted firearms to trusts or corporations.

  • Today, ATF is issuing a new proposed regulation to close this

    loophole. The proposed rule requires individuals associated with trusts

    or corporations that acquire these types of weapons to undergo

    background checks, just as these individuals would if the weapons were

    registered to them individually. By closing this loophole, the

    regulation will ensure that machine guns and other particularly

    dangerous weapons do not end up in the wrong hands.

Keeping Surplus Military Weapons Off Our Streets

  • When the United States provides military firearms to its allies,

    either as direct commercial sales or through the foreign military sales

    or military assistance programs, those firearms may not be imported back

    into the United States without U.S. government approval. Since 2005,

    the U.S. Government has authorized requests to reimport more than

    250,000 of these firearms.

  • Today, the Administration is announcing a new policy of denying

    requests to bring military-grade firearms back into the United States to

    private entities, with only a few exceptions such as for museums. This

    new policy will help keep military-grade firearms off our streets.

 

And it would be interesting to see the statistics on how often those "military-grade firearms" are used in crimes.

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My email through the White House site.

 

Dear President Obama, you have just issued a presidential order about firearms. In it you wrote, "However, felons, domestic abusers, and others prohibited from having
guns can easily evade the required background check and gain access to
machine guns or other particularly dangerous weapons by registering the
weapon to a trust or corporation."
Can you please provide me with statistics showing how often this has happened? I would be most appreciative.

You also banned reimportation of obsolete military semi-automatic rifles. Many collectors crave these. Again, can you please provide me with statistics showing the vast number of crimes that have been committed with firearms such as these?

Cordially,

Joseph Lovell

 

I'll let you know if or when I get an answer.

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