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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AL KIMY YOU ARE RIGHT ,PRESIDENT OBAMA DID SAY HIS NOT TAKING ANYBODY GUNS AWAY,HEWANT TO HAVE BACKGROUND CHECKS AN A WAYTO CUT GUNS SALLING TO PEOPLES WITH OUT LICENCES AND END UP IN THE WRONG HANDS. SOME PEOPLES TBEY DONT GET IT.HIS NOT NOT NOT TAKING ANY OF YOUR GUNS AWAY. WHY ARE YOU SO PANIC. STUPID PEOPLES
No one is coming to take your (our) guns. Stop the fear and hate mongering. Shut up!!!!!
Muammar Gaddafi…..pretty sure Obama will get Gaddafi’d in the next 2yrs.
Steven Mincey. And how is that working out for them ? Today Obama steped over the line he went from # 1$#%&!@*to dictator. Millions of. american boys the last 200 years , for what? ? The one thing i can not understand are the George Soros, Warren Buffet and the others in the United states made Billions and hate what we stand for as a nation. What is even harder is if they hate it get the$#%&!@*out.
Matthew Mazoch. I di believe we defeated the British . at one point i do remember France played apart but wasn’t here long.
Umm.. If your going to try and insult my intelligence, at least learn how to spell and use grammar correctly. Stupid,lol
The same civil war that started when ny required all assault rifles to be registered? Americans are to passive he will do what he wants and get away with it over n over.
Revolution for sure
Obama wants civil war so he can declare martial law…be smart Americans and dont give in to this wannabe president
BS,you people are full of it,I’ve been to war twice,you have no idea what the hell you are talking about!!!!!!!