As the Obama Administration prepares to tighten access to guns, the President met Wednesday with former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg to help complete the executive order that would expand background checks on gun sales while closing the “gun show loophole”.
Bloomberg is only one of many gun control advocates the president has met with in recent weeks. The order, which is currently caught in a web of legal and administrative questions is currently without a timeline.
However, even as he works to chip away at another constitutional right, a new survey is showing falling support for a ban on assault weapons, which both Obama and Bloomberg are currently advocating as a means to prevent gun-related deaths. Hillary Clinton also pushed for an assault ban during a campaign speech earlier this week.
In the wake of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns group turned into Everytown for Gun Safety with the expectations of being able to stand against the NRA. The group spent millions, most of which came from Bloomberg’s own fortune, only to fall just short of their goals on several different occasions.
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Civil war ?! Awesome. Lot more good folk than government. Promise
Man, I had no idea gun nuts were such drama queens. He wants better background checks, along with the vast majority of Americans. Chill out boys. No one is coming to get your guns.
I bet they own guns!!!
There is only one reason for him to disarm Americans and its not to make america a saret place. As most Americans know. Look at the history of people that disarm around the world. Why isn’t he going after the Muslim training camps that are on american soil.
Please do I wanna make history like my ansesters!
WAR over my conistiution
Orders are not for real the sword of justice is real
15 percent of those gun owners will be given up
So true
Good luck tea parties in your shoot out with police and military.
Disarm the secret service first.