Obama’s Executive Action on Guns: My Prediction

By Nick Leghorn

There’s been a bit of a flurry of news about the impending executive orders from President Obama on gun control. There’s little hard facts about what’s coming down the pipeline. But if you read the tea leaves with enough regularity you can see patterns emerge and get a glimmer of things to come. Let me channel my inner Hari Seldon and predict the immediate future of gun control in America.

There’s little doubt that the executive orders being readied are trying to close the “gun show loophole,” a term that the gun control community now uses to cover any and all private party firearms sales. We know the specific avenue of attack: the “in the business” regulation of the FFL system.

The Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) system was put in place by the Gun Control Act of 1968. The Act mandated that anyone “in the business” of buying and selling guns required a license from the federal government. Anyone engaged in interstate commerce in guns of any kind would also need a license. Under the Act, a private party can sell firearms from their personal collection – not for profit or business – without federal …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns