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Obama Reported To Say He's 'Working On Gun Control - Under The Radar'
"I just want you to know that we are working on it," Barack Obama reportedly told Sarah Brady regarding gun control. "We have to go through a few processes, but under the radar." This interesting bit of news was reported in an April 11 Washington Post Lifestyle section story about Obama's gun-control and regulatory policy wonk Steve Croley. Toward the end of the article the writer, Jason Horowitz, mentions a March 30 meeting between Jim and Sarah Brady and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney during which the President "dropped in." Horowitz quotes Sarah Brady relating how President Obama gave his personal assurance that he and his administration were working hard on a gun-control agenda. Brady reported that Obama then told them about advancing the agenda "under the radar." Apparently Mrs. Brady either doesn't grasp the concept of "under the radar," or, more likely, she expected the reporter to be discreet and keep the "good news" about Obama's stealth operations to himself. Thankfully this reporter chose to report the news, so we have direct corroboration of Obama's sneak-attack against the Second Amendment. One element of this agenda is found in a deceptively benign sounding "study" being conducted by the ATF. The ATF "study" examines current laws, regulations and practices regarding the importability of shotguns based on whether they are considered to have a "sporting purpose" in accordance with the provisions of the Gun Control Act. The ATF "study" puts forward a bold list of features that they say generally distinguish non-sporting shotguns from sporting shotguns. The trick is that the 1968 Gun Control Act is not the only federal law to which a "sporting purposes" test is applied. The National Firearms Act uses almost identical language when it declares that any firearm with a bore diameter of greater than .5 inches (a 12 gauge shotgun bore is about .73 inches) is a "destructive device," except for those shotguns that the attorney general determines to be particularly suitable for sporting purposes. One seemingly minor change in enforcement lays the groundwork for bans not just on importation, but also eventually on sale and possession, of many popular shotguns. And it is all taking place virtually undetected and unopposed because, as Obama himself has stated, it is "under the radar." Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-04-30 |
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