Obama weighs executive order on gun checks, Washington Post reports

President Obama’s visit to the state to meet with families of the victims, nine of whom were killed, nine of whom were wounded, at Umpqua Community College a week earlier, was marred by demonstrators who apparently thought the president was there for their guns.

The proposed rule would require gun dealers who sell a large number of firearms to perform background checks on potential buyers and the dealers would also need to be licensed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to CBS News.

Arkadi Gerney, senior vice president at the liberal think tank Center for American Progress, said tightening the definition of who is “engaged in the business” of selling guns “is a meaningful but modest step towards the goal of ensuring that all gun sales involve a background check”.

Individuals who buy firearms from dealers are required to go through a background check every time they purchase a firearm, whether it’s a “significant number” or one.

“We are asking the American people to now raise their voices”, Schumer said.

Louis Fisher, scholar in residence at The Constitution Project, said Obama’s impending flip-flop is reminiscent of his about-face on immigration.

Obama’s plan is rooted in a list of suggestions he had asked his staff to devise after the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that killed 20 students and six staffers.

He’s done it before on a number of issues and he’s clearly not afraid to do it again. Vin Weber, a former Republican congressman who now is a lobbyist, said gun ownership, unlike the case in other countries, “is a part of Americana”.

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) happens to be the nation’s most dated and biggest tax-exempt schooling, study, uploading and allowable action association putting attention on the Constitutional right and legacy to really confidentially own and also have guns. Numerous parents and grandparents avoided him and his family, and while he may have had the right, he did nothing to improve the image of gun owners.

While the majority of Americans support expanding background checks, this is a highly charged and complex political issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. On Friday, fatal school-related shootings were reported at colleges in Arizona and Texas. There are over 300 million guns in circulation, and the president feels powerless when it comes to gun control. However, the cold reality is that when you disarm the good guys you put them at the mercy of the bad guys.

But because our lazy president refuses to do the hard work necessary to get his program through Congress, he finds it far more convenient to simply pretend that Congress doesn’t exist and he can rule by royal decree.

On Thursday, congressional Democrats unveiled legislation aimed at regulating the massive sale of firearms in the U.S.by eliminating background check loopholes, expanding the background check database and cracking down on illegal gun purchases. Many politicians and others have said that if the Oregon gunman didn’t have the option of being in a “gun free zone” where security guards weren’t even allowed to carry guns, as many as ten people wouldn’t have died in the massacre.