Posted December 28, 2015 7:00 pm by Comments

By Robert Farago

Admiral Ackbar (courtesy starwars.wikia.com)

Paul Barrett [not shown] is something of an anomaly: the in-house gun guy for America’s most powerful gun control advocate’s premier publication. That’s discounting the President of the United Sates, of course. The same Commander-in-Chief whose let it be known that he will scratch his gun control itch by signing some new Executive Orders in mid-January. During SHOT Show, the firearms industry’s annual trade show? Probably. What’s a sure thing: Bloomberg knows what Obama’s gonna do; the two men met at the White House earlier this month to discuss the Presidential attack on Americans’ gun rights. Back to Barrett . . .

Barrett’s the author of the wonderfully salacious GLOCK, The Rise of America’s Gun. As I stated in my review, Barrett uses the book to “throw his weight behind passing laws to address boss Bloomberg’s pet peeve: ‘closing the gun show loophole’ (mandating FBI background checks for private sales) and ‘ballistic fingerprinting’ (creating a system to trace spent cartridges to a particular gun).” In other words, Barrett tries to sound reasonable on gun rights, but fails. Not spectacularly, but regularly. You might say he’s Bloomberg’s bitch but I couldn’t possibly comment.

Anyway, Barrett’s got the inside line on his boss’ …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns

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