Locals react to President Obama’s new executive actions

Obama’s approval rating for handling gun policy went up following the announcement of the new rules on Tuesday. About the only part of Obama’s action that makes sense is a plan to spend $500 million to “increase access to mental health care” and increased reporting of “relevant information about people prohibited from possessing a gun for specific mental health reasons”. Northern Virginia Congressman Gerry Connolly says GOP is making a mistake by rejecting calls for modest gun control measures. However, the results from these studies may not be on Obama’s side.

A Quinnipiac poll released December 23 showed that 47 percent of Americans support stricter gun laws, with 50 percent opposed, but 89 percent of voters, including 84 percent among voters in households where there are guns, support requiring background checks on gun purchases at gun shows or online.

She also estimates that attendance is up 40 to 50 percent.

The program’s debit cards will provide gun owners with funds 25 percent above the market value of the working guns traded in and will be valid for two years.

Leahy wants Congress to consider much more comprehensive gun control legislation.

In actuality, if folks would quit screaming for a minute and actually read the president’s ideas, they are a modest and reasonable attempt to fairly enforce federal laws already on the books. “We don’t know when we will get them, don’t know we will get them”, Richard Le Royal says. Investigators traced the gun to someone who had sold it at a co-worker in Virginia; they had traveled there to make the sale.

“I get too many letters from parents and teachers and kids to sit around and do nothing”.

But it conforms to the wishes of an American public that shares Obama’s shock and dismay over school shootings and other preventable tragedies.

The NRA was ready to fire back at Obama’s expected comments, saying it would have some sort of rebuttal to the State of the Union ready for Wednesday morning.

Unfortunately, the ATF has – under both Democratic and Republican presidents – allowed the phrase “occasional sales” to mean nearly anything, which has rendered the background check system optional. I’d want rigorous vetting prior to granting such loans, in stark contrast to green energy loans expedited at the urging on the White House, which cost taxpayers billions when four of those companies went bankrupt. Registration won’t end under-handed gun purchases by the criminal element, but in so many mass shootings, the weapons involved were purchased by dealers and the record of the transaction might tip off police to prospective terrorist plots or suspicious behavior by people who show not be in possession of deadly weapons.