Obama has blocked the re-importation of the historic WWII-era, M1 Garand rifles from South Korea – causing a Vermont gun importer, Century International Arms, to lay off 41 employees.
Century Arms stated they had secured all necessary permits and was about to start importing a large number of these rifles when the deal was blocked by the White House.
The Obama admin didn’t respond to requests for comments, although last summer they did state they would start blocking the importation of surplus military weapons to reduce gun violence.
FAIRFAX, Vt. — The White House isn’t responding to claims from a Vermont gun importer that it is to blame for blocking a permit that would have allowed it to re-import a number of historic America-made firearms from South Korea.
Century International Arms, of Fairfax, says the White House’s blocking the deal led to its laying off 41 employees.
While the White House didn’t respond to requests for comment Friday, last summer it issued a release saying it was blocking the re-importation of surplus military weapons as a way to reduce gun violence.
Century Arms said Thursday it had been planning on importing a large number of vintage WWII-era, M1 Garand rifles from South Korea and it had all the permits to do so until the White House intervened and blocked the deal.
More c**p from Obama don’t want Americans to be able to protect them selfs from his Muslim takeover another hitler in the works wake up people
Gun Control For Dummies
I’ve been asked to pipe in on the issue of gun control, no doubt, due to the fact the Supreme Court is reviewing yet another law effecting the People’s ‘Right’ to keep and bear arms.
While there are all kinds of scholarly pros & cons to this issue (some scholarly while some are pure bull), I’ll not bore you to tears with the bleeding heart stories of violence perpetrated by jerks with firearms or the stories of heroism exhibited by armed Citizens in actually stopping crime by the very fact that they had the good sense to own, carry or have access to a gun. Either argument has ZERO bearing on what’s LEGAL. The fact is it doesn’t require years of studying Constitutional Law (although I have) to render a verdict on this subject.
The FACT of the matter is that the 2nd Amendment to our Constitution states quite clearly that “the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” It’s also a FACT that the Supreme Court has already stated in their decision Miranda v Arizona:
“Where rights (liberty) secured by the Constitution are involved, there can be no legislation which would abrogate (abolish) them.”
Just in case anyone out there might think that’s unclear or the court can’t say that, the Supreme Court (our government) tells us:
“When the Supreme Court rules on a constitutional issue, that judgment is virtually final; its decisions can be altered only by the rarely used procedure of constitutional amendment or by a new ruling of the Court.” (http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/about.html that:)
So, Gun Control for Dummies is wrapped up thusly: Since our Constitution says “the Right of the People to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” and the Supreme Court said clearly that, pertaining to Constitutional Rights “there can be no legislation which would abrogate (abolish) them” and the Supreme Court’s decisions/determinations can NOT be altered accept by “constitutional amendment or by a new ruling of the Court”, the states of the Union, their communities, cities, towns and, in fact, our Congress should just knock off this nonsense about making new laws, restrictions or taxes on something that’s a Constitutional Right. This should be simple enough even for politicians – those actions/laws ARE NOT LEGAL.
As an afterthought to the simple Irish lad’s briefing above on the nuances of gun control I give you the following Supreme Court decisions to ponder & I leave their interpretation to you, the Citizen. Consider them Holy Writ in your viewing your local gun laws:
In Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 US 105: “No State shall convert a liberty into a privilege, license it, and charge a fee therefore.”
In Sherer v. Cullen, 481 F 946 “There can be no sanction or penalty imposed upon one because of this exercise of constitutional rights.”
In Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham Alabama, 373 US 262: “If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity.”
WE NEED TO BE REALLY ARMED NOW
Obama blocked from buying guns, tanks and other armored vehicles to i distributing them to muslins who are training on American soil,and to different sections of government like others that have never needed to be armed EPA, BLM, POST OFFICE etc.
What an asshat. Next they will stop the import of forks to stop obesity.
Commies are consistent! They must disarm us! (at least try hard)
I call bull$#%&!@* on this one whens the last time you heard of a drive by done with a garand curb gun violence my ass Obama youre a lying scumbag
IMPEACH
F them we do what is needed.
Must UN-American traitorous bastard in history! Hell Benedict Arnold is a patriot compared to this guy, and we hung him!