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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Out of curiosity, how does a background check take guns away? How does restrictions on convicted felons buying guns in the first place take guns away? Or are you saying criminals and crazies should be able to buy guns?
It’s already illegal for felons to have a gun this is just making it more restrictive for law abiding citizens to have a gun.
He is provoking ar m ed reaction, then he will declare martial law and remain as commondant
Hey Marc Hyppolite-
Come get mine big guy!!
It’s a real shame the RINOS are to scared to stand up them and put an end to this. They are more then happy and stand us in the back and eat dog scrapes thrown on the floor by their democrat handlers.
We will not give our guns!!
Don’t let this happen we have the power to stop
Him
Worst thing to ever happen to America,electing That Muslim president.
Stacy why don, t we solve them together and not lower ourselves to calling people names.
Wasting his time. Not gonna happen
That’s why Barack Obama must be impeached! Everybody need to call their Congressman and tell their Senators and District Representatives to impeach the President. Barack Obama is running the federal government in a totalitarianism way $#%&!@*Part II). Find your congressman in this website: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/