Barack Obama, wiping tears, makes new push to tighten gun rules

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) downplayed President Obama’s executive actions on gun control on Wednesday, repeatedly dismissing them as a “distraction” from Islamic terrorism and other key issues facing the country. But private unlicensed dealers selling guns at places like gun shows and online don’t have to.

Irwin said his gun sales have doubled in the last two weeks. She noted that in her proposal to further restrict gun sales, she pledged to use executive actions in the absence of congressional action. The spirit of December’s bipartisan compromises are likely to evaporate as the GOP-led effort to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law comes up for a vote this week.

Davenport Police Chief Larry Holden said he doesn’t see a problem with the president’s plan.

The Obama administration appeared determined to tamp down expectations, with Obama saying he realizes his actions won’t stop all gun violence.

The White House also announced that extra staff and funding would be provided for several government agencies involved in the monitoring of gun purchases and that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) had begun finalising a rule to ensure that dealers who shipped guns would notify law enforcement if their arms were lost or stolen.

Pro-gun pundits suggested Obama had an onion at the lectern to help generate phony tears.

Reince Priebus, the head of the Republican National Committee, said the changes were “all about burnishing the president’s legacy and boosting Democrat enthusiasm in a presidential election year”.

Alberto Gonzales, who served as attorney general from 2005-07 under the second President Bush, told the BBC on Monday, it’s a “legitimate question” of whether “the president has the authority to do this through executive action as opposed to a law passed by Congress”.

Judi Richardson said they were “honored to be invited” to Washington, D.C., and were there representing many other family members of gun violence victims who were unable to attend. But GOP voters should be as skeptical of those ringing the gong of doom as they have been of Obama.

When Evan Reynolds, owner of Leadfeather Guns and Archery in Haines City, goes to a gun show, he said, he follows the same protocol that is followed at his shop.

“Not only is the president’s executive action intent on bypassing Congress, but it circumvents the Constitution and endangers the rights of every American, Webster said”. “A vast majority of the American people, including responsible gun owners who are sickened by the deaths of so many innocent people, agree with the common sense reforms announced today”.

“When this President can’t get what he wants, he acts unilaterally by Executive Order. But I also believe that we can find ways to reduce gun violence consistent with the Second Amendment”. “At a time when the American people are looking to the Commander in Chief to provide real leadership in countering terrorist threats from ISIL and Al Qaeda, what Americans seem to get instead are lectures, distractions, and attempts to undermine their fundamental Second Amendment rights”.

“The president is employing false rhetoric about loopholes in our gun laws to stoke fear and as a means to placate his political base”, he said.

“What’s going on here, what’s going on with the president?” asked Republican U.S. Senator Richard Shelby.