The Five Most Egregious Aspects of Obama’s Gun Control Actions

Barack Obama is once again restricting the rights of legal gun owners across the United States, and is attempting to sell his efforts to people of the United States. Breitbart has compiled a list of reasons as to why Barack Obama’s proposals are bad for America, and bad for the second amendment. Here are a couple:

1. The main policy would not have stopped any recent mass shootings.

The controls expand background checks to cover more private sellers, although private sellers are not the source of guns used in mass shootings and high-profile shootings–the very kinds of incidents Obama claims he wants to reduce.
Every mass shooter and high profile shooter in recent memory–with the exception of those who stole their guns–bought their guns via background checks. For this reason, even the New York Daily News described Obama’s pending background check expansion as “meaningless,” saying, “the last 15 mass killers all passed… background checks” to acquire firearms.

2. 225 years of precedent, destroyed–without any legislative due process.

The expansion of background checks is an affront to freedom in general, because it brings private sellers under the purview of the government regardless of whether those sellers sell one gun a year or 100. Americans have been selling guns privately since 1791–that’s 225 years–and now, with a swipe of his pen, Obama is saying a portion of those sales must be handled federally and conducted via background checks.

3. You can be denied a gun for purely financial reasons or if you are on Social Security.

The attempt to bar certain Social Security beneficiaries from owning or buying guns because they are unable to manage their own finances.

On July 18 Breitbart News reported on Obama’s push to ban gun-possession for Social Security beneficiaries who are believed incapable of handling their own finances.

4. It adds more burdens to gun dealers who are already following the law.

Obama is also using executive gun control to place even more reporting requirements–read, regulations–on the backs of Federal Firearms License holders (FFLs), who are federally recognized firearms dealers.

5. Tax dollars for “smart guns” that nobody wants.

Obama’s executive action instructs the “Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security” to sponsor research into the “smart gun” technology and explore ways to further its use. This means using tax-payer money to pay for something the private sector has no interest in funding.

Broad interest in “smart guns” is absent because they have yet to be demonstrated trustworthy. Such guns are either fitted with biometric readers–through which they are activated by the palm or finger print or their owners–or they are paired with a bracelet or watch that emits a radio signal which activates the gun when in close proximity with it.

This is all a show on Obama’s part. He needs a legacy move that makes it look like he took action on violence. The only legacy that will follow him after this was his legacy of circumventing the legal process in order to push through otherwise illegal actions.

Source: Brietbart