Obama Accuses NRA Of Peddling Gun ‘Conspiracy’

If anything, actually, you’ve helped. However, if the president’s plan ultimately takes effect, even the Obama administration itself admits that it would be virtually impossible to predict the number of new gun sales that would be regulated or the number of illegally obtained guns that would be yanked off the streets. As the law is today, people convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence are only banned from owning guns if they are married to, have children with, or live with their victims.

Obama took questions from Taya Kyle, whose late husband was depicted in the film “American Sniper”, and Cleopatra Cowley-Pendleton, whose daughter Hadiya was shot and killed near Obama’s Chicago home.

The town hall presented a rare opportunity for the president to address the nation, be confronted by critics and tackle rumors in an informal setting.

This is what making guns “our shared responsibility” looks like for some of the gun owners I spoke to in Iowa.

The meeting was proposed by CNN after a December 2 mass shooting that left 14 dead in San Bernardino, California.

Mr Obama’s comments come two days after he announced a package of executive actions which will affect access to guns.

As with “climate change”, “gun control” is not high on most peoples’ list of concerns. Still, the group pushed back on Obama in real time on Twitter, noting in one tweet that “none of the president’s orders would have stopped any of the recent mass shootings”.

The gun-rights movement emerged from the anti-government fringes in the 1960s and ’70s, took over the NRA and raised huge sums to impose its agenda on US lawmakers.

Obama’s lies about being a moderate on guns until he was term-limited as President before suddenly developing a desire to ban entire classes of firearms, orchestrating attempts to ban certain ammunition as armor piercing, and his EPA attempting to ban lead ammunition are all just “imaginary”.

‘I respect the Second Amendment, ‘ Obama said during a town hall hosted at George Mason University by CNN during which he defended his announcement earlier this week that he was taking action to expand background checks. In five years even I could figure out how to buy a gun through a non-licensed seller.

“You certainly would want to make sure that if he gets released, that he now can’t do what he did to you to somebody else, and it’s going to be easier for us to prevent him from getting a gun if there’s a strong background system in place”, Obama said. Jennifer Baker, an official with the National Rifle Association’s lobbying arm in Washington, said the group turned down an invitation from CNN to attend the forum. Cooper asked the president.

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, pastor at St. Sabina Catholic Church in Chicago, greets former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords, D-Ariz., at President Barack Obama’s televised town hall meeting.

After Obama dismissed the confiscation shibboleth as a conspiracy, Cooper asked, “Is it fair to call it a conspiracy?” Are you suggesting that the notion that we are creating a plot to take everybody’s guns away so that we can enforce marshal law is a conspiracy? Obama met with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday and said that his proposals are “well within my legal authority”. If we can set it up so you can’t unlock your phone unless you got the right fingerprint, why can’t we do the same thing for our guns?

“You have a president that views the Constitution as a stale and outdated document and so he habitually tries to undermine it, especially the Second Amendment”. The New Jersey Institute of Technology has already patented such technology, but the Institute’s Bill Marshall says no gun maker’s been interested.