Obama Weighing Executive Order to Expand Background Checks to Some Private Gun Sales

By Ammoland

By AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)- Eight days after a gunman opened fire in Roseburg, Oregon, with weapons acquired through a background check, President Obama is weighing the option of using an executive order to circumvent Congress and make background checks a requirement for certain private sellers.

According to The Hill, a White House official has confirmed that the executive order would set a threshold as to the number of guns one can sell each year and still be considered a private seller. Selling any number of guns above that threshold would require that the seller to obtain a Federal Firearms License from the government and perform NICS background checks on every purchaser.

NBC News reports that Obama plans to do this by reworking language in selling guidelines to redefine “who is legally defined as a licensed gun dealer and therefore required to conduct background checks on potential buyers.”

NBC News quotes anonymous sources saying the Obama administration is currently weighing “50 or 100 guns a year as the threshold to trigger these …Read the Rest

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