What President Obama Might Do To Create Gun Control by Executive Fiat

By Robert Farago

Speculation is rife about President Obama’s post-Umpqua plans to further his gun control agenda – without Congressional support (obvs.). Obama Weighs White House Moves on Gun Control nbcnews.com reports. The article echoes the proposal making the rounds: changing the rules on gun sales so that anyone selling more than a certain number of firearms becomes a federal firearms dealer and thus must subject all sales to a federal background check (and fill out a mess of paperwork). As our man Leghorn pointed out . . .

the ATF already has rules in this regard. Rules that have already eliminated thousands of “kitchen table” FFL’s (Federal Firearms Licensees). Lowering the legal threshold defining a gun dealer would put a big old dent in gun show business, allowing Obama to claim he’s “closing the gun show loophole” – a longtime rallying cry for gun control advocates. And an almost completely irrelevant factor in firearms-related crime.

Changing ATF rules on gun dealers is doable. The political process of reversing Executive Order rule-making – lawsuits, new legislation and such – is onerous.

Four years ago, the ATF created a regulation to stem the “iron river’ of “assault rifles” flowing to Mexico (excluding illegal sales …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns