OBAMA ANNOUNCES 23 EXECUTIVE ACTIONS ON GUN CONTROL

Speaking ahead of President Barack Obama’s scheduled 11:55 a.m. address, senior White House staff announced a new package of 23 executive actions, many directed at limiting the sale and possession of guns.

Making good on a threat that the White House will step in if Congress fails to take action to restrict gun ownership following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., Obama plans to announce the nearly two dozen actions today, effective on his order. They include directions to the Attorney General to review (and likely broaden) the categories of individuals restricted from owning a gun; publish a letter from the department of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms instructing federally licensed gun dealers on how to perform background checks for private sellers; lifting a congressionally-imposed freeze on gun violence research by the Center for Disease Control; and giving explicit authorization to doctors, under the Affordable Care Act, to ask patients about guns in their homes.

I will be banned if I say what I want to say.

Molon Labe

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I will be banned if I say what I want to say.

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Total bull, totally bull, and yes both of them.

Meese: Obama Could Be Impeached If He Uses Executive Order For Gun Control

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MEESE: It should be remembered that the president cannot by executive order do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it. In other words, some Congressional authority he has been given.

An executive order without specific Congressional authority can only apply to those portions of the government that are under his control. In their words, the executive branch. Now there are some things he can probably do in regard to the actions of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, or some other governmental agency in its operations. But to impose burdens or regulations that affect society generally, he would have to have Congressional authorization.

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NEWSMAX: So, if the president unilaterally overrides the Second Amendment via an executive order, would this be Constitutional? Would it be legal? And how should Congress respond?

MEESE: Well it would not be legal, it would not be Constitutional and, indeed, if he tried to override the Second Amendment in any way, I believe it would be an impeachable offense.

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Probably will go nowhere with the criminals in Congress, but it still needs to begin.

His spending wish list is going no where, and attorneys will take some of his so called executive order to court.

Here's the list from the pdf.:

Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions

Today, the President is announcing that he and the Administration will:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

This looks like some rush job of redundant and worthless garbage that someone late with their homework rushed together. Trace guns used in crimes? We already do that and the Regime knows it. How do you think we found out about fast and furious?

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17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

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What does this mean? Don't they already report threats of violence?

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16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

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Exactly how is that going to be done? Because he "says" that it doesn't say what it does? Did he make note of this exception in a prior "signing statement?" (I doubt it.)

Seems to me that element of the "law" would have to be amended by the legislative process, at least it used to be that way. I suppose that now a simple memo from the regime will change it automagically. At this point Congress has been rendered completely impotent.

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This looks like some rush job of redundant and worthless garbage that someone late with their homework rushed together. Trace guns used in crimes? We already do that and the Regime knows it. How do you think we found out about fast and furious?

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Item 13 must be to address the work place violence of Fort Hood. Man obama is a pervert.

One of me favorite items :

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

Just thing of all the mischief this could inspire !