Background Checks - Page 9

Americans have a constitutional right to own a gun, but not to drive a car. During a conference with First Lady Michelle Obama, actress Julianne Moore indicated that she wants to change that.

If the push for the ballot initiative to expand background checks in Nevada has demonstrated anything, it’s that the push is driven by out-of-state consulting and messaging firms—D.C. firms in particular—and an influx of Michael Bloomberg’s money, albeit it indirectly.

Silencer sales are skyrocketing in the wake of President Obama’s executive gun controls, as consumers rush to get the devices before rules curtailing purchases by trusts go into effect.

Gun control proponents pushing a November ballot initiative to expand background checks in Nevada are largely being “bankrolled” by Everytown for Gun Safety, which is bankrolled by gun control proponent Michael Bloomberg.

The FBI “temporarily” halted efforts to process denial appeals on background checks, thereby leaving up to “7,100” Americans in limbo as to whether the federal government will allow them to buy a gun.

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders used the Democrats’ Jan. 25 Iowa town hall event to suggest that Hillary Clinton pushes gun control where and when it benefits her politically.

New data from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) shows that gun sales skyrocketed following the December 2 San Bernardino terrorist attack.

During January 20 testimony before the Senate Appropriations Committee, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said President Obama’s executive gun controls are “well-reasoned” and “lawful.”

The FBI’s background-check figures show that 2015 shattered the annual record for background checks, and December 2015 alone broke the record for the number of checks performed in a given month.

During the January 17 Democratic Debate, presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders bragged about his “D-” from the NRA. He also talked about standing up to “the gun lobby” when running for Congress in 1988.

Following President Obama’s January 5 executive gun control announcement, the White House emailed “talking points” to celebrities which they, in turn, tweeted out in support of the new controls.

Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton accused Bernie Sanders of not being serious about gun control.

Gun control proponent Gabby Giffords and her husband Mark Kelly have chosen to endorse Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders because of Clinton’s stronger gun control stance.

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.

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.

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.

Obama faces a quandary—the NRA is gaining support and gun control is losing it.

On January 6–the day after President Obama announced executive gun controls to prevent “mass violence” in America–the Associated Press reported that Obama’s actions would not have stopped one mass shooting in recent memory.

Fox News’s O’Reilly Factor host Bill O’Reilly praised President Obama’s executive actions to expand background checks.

After being introduced on January 5 by Mark Barden–parent of a seven-year-old student who was killed with the guns Adam Lanza stole, then used to attack Sandy Hook–President Obama stood at the White House podium and announced a summary list of executive gun controls to lessen “mass violence” in America.

A January 4 White House executive order fact sheet previews the executive gun controls Obama will announce Tuesday. These are the five most offensive aspects of those controls.

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet that previews the way President Obama’s executive gun control will expand background checks to cover family and corporate trusts.

The White House released a fact-sheet Jan. 4 which previews the executive gun control Obama will unveil Tuesday and one aspect of the new controls is the inclusion of “information from the Social Security Administration in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm.”

On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals there is no numerical threshold of sales that a private seller has to cross before being considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”

On January 4, the FBI released numbers for annual background checks for gun purchases showing that 2015 broke the previous one-year record by more than 2,000,000 checks.

On January 3 Reuters reported that Freedom Watch–a group dedicated to defending freedom–will be filing a lawsuit against Obama’s executive gun control as soon as it’s issued.

Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump says he opposes President Barack Obama’s effort to unilaterally impose further gun-controls, claiming it represents another sacrifice of freedom in a world where “bad guys are always going to have…guns.”

On January 7 President Obama will hold a live gun control town hall on CNN with Anderson Cooper.

In a year marked by a relentless Democratic push for more gun control, stocks of two of the most prominent gun makers—Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger & Co—saw their value nearly double.

Gun crime convictions are down more than 33 percent compared to a decade ago, but the Obama administration’s gun control push has risen sharply.

Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed are currently selling their “Ghost Gunner” CNC machine for $1,500.00. It forges a path for Americans to make homemade AR-15 rifles in their garages, basements, or anywhere else they wish to set up the compact CNC machine.

Gun sales are surging in California to such a degree that the state’s annual record for background checks was broken by November 30.

Virginia state senator Bill Carrico (R-Dist. 40) is responding to Governor Terry McAuliffe’s (D) relentless gun control push by introducing a budget amendment to remove funding for McAuliffe’s protection detail.

A report indicates that President Obama will celebrate the Christmas season by circumventing Congress via executive gun control.

The FBI reports that November was the seventh consecutive month of record-breaking background checks.

On December 17, Assistant Homeland Secretary Alan Bersin said he had not heard about the effort to use the no-fly list for gun control background checks and suggested any effort to do so would be “apples and oranges.”