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01-26-2017, 03:19 PM
Six Obama Gun Controls President Trump Can Undo
On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.
The controls range from those that can be stopped via executive action to those that will require broader administrative action and/or Congressional cooperation.
Here are six gun controls that GOA listed as prime targets for repeal:
1 - Obama’s January 5, 2016, Executive Gun Controls—These were a body of executive actions that expanded background checks so as to require a larger number of private sellers to seek out an Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder and process all sales via a government background check. The controls also designated tax-payer funding for “smart gun” research and development, added new regulations onto already heavily regulated FFLs, and co-opted Obama’s infamous Social Security gun ban. Many of these controls could be undone with a swipe of Trump’s pen.
2 - The Social Security Gun Ban—This ban was fashioned behind closed doors in the summer of 2015 and finalized by the Obama administration just days before Christmas 2016. The ban could impact any Social Security recipient who requires help managing his or her finances. It is designed so that recipients draw attention to themselves by having their benefits mailed or otherwise sent to a third party. Once they have the Social Security Administration’s attention an investigation begins and can result in the loss of Second Amendment rights if the recipient is deemed mentally deficient. Congress has agreed to review the details of the ban next week and pass legislation to block it. President Trump’s signature on the legislation and a thorough redirecting of the SSA would save the Second Amendment rights of tens of thousands–perhaps even millions–of Social Security recipients.
3 - “Removing the U.S. from the Anti-Gun UN Arms Trade Treaty”–former Secretary of State John Kerry signed the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on September 25, 2013. The NRA warned: “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme [and is full of regulations and requirements that are] blatant attacks on the constitutional rights of every law-abiding American.” The treaty does this, in part, by “[urging] record keeping of end users, directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting country regarding arms transfers, including ‘end use or end user documentation’ for a ‘minimum of ten years.’” Republicans in the Senate immediately torpedoed any hope of ratifying the treaty, but the treaty sits ready for ratification should Democrats ever regain Senate control. By removing the U.S. as a signatory President Trump would remove any threat that the ATT would be ratified and lorded over U.S. citizens in the future.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/six-gun-controls-president-trump-can-undo/
On January 25 Gun Owners of America (GOA) released a list of Obama-era gun controls which President Trump can undo.
The controls range from those that can be stopped via executive action to those that will require broader administrative action and/or Congressional cooperation.
Here are six gun controls that GOA listed as prime targets for repeal:
1 - Obama’s January 5, 2016, Executive Gun Controls—These were a body of executive actions that expanded background checks so as to require a larger number of private sellers to seek out an Federal Firearms License (FFL) holder and process all sales via a government background check. The controls also designated tax-payer funding for “smart gun” research and development, added new regulations onto already heavily regulated FFLs, and co-opted Obama’s infamous Social Security gun ban. Many of these controls could be undone with a swipe of Trump’s pen.
2 - The Social Security Gun Ban—This ban was fashioned behind closed doors in the summer of 2015 and finalized by the Obama administration just days before Christmas 2016. The ban could impact any Social Security recipient who requires help managing his or her finances. It is designed so that recipients draw attention to themselves by having their benefits mailed or otherwise sent to a third party. Once they have the Social Security Administration’s attention an investigation begins and can result in the loss of Second Amendment rights if the recipient is deemed mentally deficient. Congress has agreed to review the details of the ban next week and pass legislation to block it. President Trump’s signature on the legislation and a thorough redirecting of the SSA would save the Second Amendment rights of tens of thousands–perhaps even millions–of Social Security recipients.
3 - “Removing the U.S. from the Anti-Gun UN Arms Trade Treaty”–former Secretary of State John Kerry signed the UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) on September 25, 2013. The NRA warned: “This treaty threatens individual firearm ownership with an invasive registration scheme [and is full of regulations and requirements that are] blatant attacks on the constitutional rights of every law-abiding American.” The treaty does this, in part, by “[urging] record keeping of end users, directing importing countries to provide information to an exporting country regarding arms transfers, including ‘end use or end user documentation’ for a ‘minimum of ten years.’” Republicans in the Senate immediately torpedoed any hope of ratifying the treaty, but the treaty sits ready for ratification should Democrats ever regain Senate control. By removing the U.S. as a signatory President Trump would remove any threat that the ATT would be ratified and lorded over U.S. citizens in the future.
Rest here - http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/26/six-gun-controls-president-trump-can-undo/