Meet Two Women Who Challenged Obama on Gun Control

IN is a firearm state, and government leaders here are pushing back on President Obama’s attempts to boost gun control.

During Obama’s January 7 CNN gun control town hall, he admitted he believes making guns more expensive is a way to fight crime. I will urge my colleagues in Congress to work on solutions to better aid those in America suffering from mental illness, keep guns out of the hands of criminals, and better enforce the countless regulations on gun ownership already on the books.

It’s worth noting, however, that five of them are aimed at eliminating one or more of the existing gun control measures.

Corban, who said she purchased a gun to protect herself and her two children after being raped as a college student, told the president that his proposed gun controls would make her family and other Americans “less safe”.

Since 2004, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been required to destroy NICS records of gun sales and transfers within 24 hours of receipt.

These comments are hypocritical and show a president who didn’t live up to his rhetoric.

At the debate on Thursday, Barack also spoke of how “there are a whole bunch of law-abiding citizens who have grown up hunting with their dads, going to the shooting range and are responsible gun owners”.

The legislation also enhances penalties for anyone who buys a gun for another person and it prohibits anyone on the so-called “terrorist no-fly list” from buying a weapon.

The gun lobby in the U.S. holds an nearly unfathomable sway over a significant number of U.S. politicians – enough to have been able to block most of U.S. President Barrack Obama’s hoped-for changes to that country’s gun laws.

“I don’t know that any of them would have been stopped by a background check”, said Kyle.

Aides and activists said Obama, once reluctant to speak about the gun-control issue, will use his last year in office to launch a year-long campaign urging states and localities to do what they can to curb gun violence, which leads to 30,000 deaths in the United States each year. In DC, where Obama was speaking from, expanded background checks add about $125 to the cost of transferring a gun. Under Obama’s orders, the government will consider anyone “in the business” of selling guns to be a dealer. “None of this will mean anything if we don’t increase penalties, to include mandatory jail time, for violations/crimes involving guns”, Light said. “You take guns away from good people, and bad people are going to have guns because they’re going to do whatever it takes to have them anyway”, Sherwood Davis III said, who is an employee at Sherwood’s Guns.

This weekend, Pueblo hosted the “Tanner Gun Show” on the State Fairgrounds, and organizers say attendance was way up.

And you know what happens? “The problem is that they want to murder”, she said.

“Look the American Firearms Retailers Association, we need to have representation”, Pennock explained of the group’s conversation with President Obama.