Obama Announces 2 More Executive Orders To Go After Guns

Freedom Outpost

by Tim Brown 

OK, it wasn’t Barack Obama that made the announcement, but it was the guy riding “shotgun” with him (pun intended). The Obama administration announced two new gun control measures via Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday morning. Adding to the 23 previous executive orders that Barack Obama issued back in January, he issued two more that in his words will “keep the most dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands and ban almost all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities.”

The announcement came as the new Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) director Todd B. Jones was sworn in.

While the Obama administration calls these “common-sense” proposals, they are actually unconstitutional proposals as we have cited before.

First, the administration wants to close a loophole. Under current law machine guns and short-barreled shotguns must be registered (something that, again, is unconstitutional). While the press statement only points to the fact that in order to possess one of these legally, one must have a fingerprint-based background check, they fail to tell you that it also incurs a hefty fee, in addition to purchasing the weapon.

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