Now Obama
won’t come out and say this but what he intends to do is make it very difficult
for the law abiding citizen to own a gun.
Liberals having been having wet dreams to disarm American as much as
they dreamt about socialized healthcare.
Well, they got
the healthcare. Now they want our guns!
The White
House is weighing a far-reaching package of legislation that would tighten
restrictions on firearm sales and ownership by requiring universal background
checks for gun buyers and creating a national database to track the
weapons.
Gun rights
advocates say the measures would crush private sales of firearms and lead to
government confiscation of legally-owned guns.
A group led
by Vice President Joe Biden to study gun control is
considering the various
measures and compiling a list of them to send to President Obama before the end
of the month. The group convened after 20 children and six adults were killed
in a gun massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School last month.
Current law
requires federally licensed gun dealers, such as Wal-Mart, to verify that a
buyer has not been convicted of a serious crime or declared mentally
incompetent before selling that person a gun. Typically this is done online and
takes less than a day.
But private
sellers, most of whom sell firearms online or at gun shows, are not subject to
the same requirements.
Federal law
requires private sellers to refuse a buyer if they suspect that person might
not pass a background check. But no check is required and no paperwork is filed
regarding the process.
The White
House is considering reaching out to Wal-Mart and other gun retailers to help
build public support for the universal background check, since the retailers
could benefit from a potentially negative effect on private
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