President Obama announced his executive gun controls on January 5, and as of January 9, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have refused to fight against it. So Obama is in a full-court press for more gun control–and he smells weakness.
At the January 12 State of the Union address (SOTU), President Obama will have an “open seat” to honor shooting victims and to “send a message of Congress that they must act to make it harder for guns to fall into the wrong hands.”
On January 8, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (D) rejected ties to Islam in the ambush shooting of Philadelphia police officer Jesse Hartnett and suggested the big lesson is that we need more gun control.
During his January 5 speech expanding background checks to cover more private sellers, President Obama made a startling admission: he believes the Second Amendment does indeed guarantee a right for individuals to keep and bear arms.
“Smart Guns” failed in California in March 2014 and in Maryland in May 2014, yet President Obama’s executive gun control contained an order directing the DOD, DOJ, and Homeland Security to explore ways to “further” the use of “smart guns.”
On January 7, Baltimore Sun deputy editorial page editor Tricia Bishop penned a column in which she explained that licensed gun owners scare her more than gun-toting criminals.
Actors Bradley Cooper, Will Ferrell, and 98 other celebrities sent President Obama a thank you letter for his executive action on gun control.
During the January 7 CNN gun control town hall, President Obama mocked Americans who are concerned that the executive expansion of background checks will be followed by an executive push for gun confiscation.
Following President Obama’s “Guns in America” CNN town hall yesterday, actress Julianne Moore emailed supporters to praise Obama’s new executive gun controls and call for Congress to enact more gun control laws now.
In an article titled “Hollywood’s Own Killing Fields,” David Robb at Deadline mourned the firearm-related deaths of celebrities throughout the years and praised Obama’s new gun controls, but offered zero criticism of Hollywood’s ongoing use of firearm violence and death to rake in massive profit in films.
Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-Miss.- 4th) is asking his colleagues in Congress to censure President Obama for the executive actions on gun control announced this week.
The gun control town hall CNN hosted for President Obama was very one-sided. The vast majority of the questions directed at Obama were leading questions centered on gun control, while the few questions or comments that were pro-Second Amendment in nature went unanswered or were only partially answered.
Breitbart News previously reported that Obama’s executive expansion of background checks to cover more private sales has no minimum sales threshold that a private seller has to hit before he is considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.” Therefore, the point at which a private seller must get a Federal Firearms License (FFL) and do a background check on every gun he sells is unclear at best.
On January 4, a 65-year-old grandmother in Manchester, New Hampshire, shot a man who followed her home from the gas station.
A CNN/ORC poll embargoed for release until the start of Obama’s gun control town hall shows that a majority of Americans oppose the use of executive actions for gun control. According to CNN, 54 percent of Americans said “no” when
On January 7, The Baltimore Sun gave President Obama kudos for issuing executive orders for gun control, but expressed their desire that he add another measure–a public registry of gun owners.
On January 6, the NRA declined an invitation to attend President Obama’s CNN town hall, describing the event at a “PR spectacle orchestrated by the White House.”
On January 6, Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie admitted he used to be pro-gun control, but says he has now changed his position.
During a January 5 speech in which President Obama introduced numerous executive gun controls, he falsely claimed that “a violent felon” can buy a gun online without a background check.
In a January 6 op-ed admitting there is “zero” chance of congressional action on gun control, Ann Brown, a former Bill Clinton administration official, called on President Obama to expand his executive gun control with one more act: regulate ammunition sales.
California gun controllers reacted to President Obama’s executive gun control by claiming the new regulations and expanded laws will help California fight crime.
The federal government must monitor newspaper online advertising if it wants to oversee gun sales in the way President Barack Obama urged January 5.
Obama faces a quandary—the NRA is gaining support and gun control is losing it.
Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush frequently talks about receiving the “NRA Statesmen of the Year” award. But the NRA does not give such an award.
In an interview with TheWrap, filmmaker Spike Lee said politicians speaking in opposition to President Obama’s executive gun controls are “in cahoots with NRA.”
