Obama
Bypasses Congress, Orders MASSIVE Gun Control Action… LOCK AND LOAD
(The Blaze) – President Barack
Obama’s advisers are finalizing a proposal that would expand background checks
on gun sales without congressional approval.
White House adviser Valerie Jarrett
says the president has asked his team to complete a proposal and submit it for
his review “in short order.” She says the recommendations will include measures
to expand background checks.
Jarrett spoke Wednesday night at a
vigil for the victims of the Newtown shooting, according to a summary provided
by the White House.
After the mass shooting in Roseburg,
Oregon, Obama said his team was looking for ways to tighten gun laws without a
vote in Congress. White House officials have said they’re exploring closing the
so-called “gun show loophole” that anti-gun advocates claim allows people to
buy weapons at gun shows and online without a background check.
The move comes following the deadly
terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, that left 14 people dead. All
of the guns used in the massacre were purchased legally. Opponents of new gun
control regulations have argued that the proposals being pushed by Obama would
not have prevented the tragedy or recent mass shootings.
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler
concluded that Marco Rubio’s claim that gun control wouldn’t have prevented the
mass shootings that have occurred in “last few months or years” is
accurate.
“Rubio’s statement stands up to
scrutiny — at least for the recent past, as he framed it. Notably, three
of the mass shootings took place in California, which already has strong gun
laws including a ban on certain weapons and high-capacity magazines,”
Kessler wrote.
The Obama administration has
maintained that strengthening background checks, banning semi-automatic rifles
deemed “assault rifles” and revoking the Second Amendment rights of people on
the “no-fly” list could prevent dangerous people from getting guns.
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