Washington, DC -(Ammoland.com)- In one of the first pro-gun actions of his administration, President Donald Trump is expected to shortly move to revoke Barack Obama’s illegal actions to effectively outlaw gun collecting.
Obama’s anti-gun “executive action” was announced on January 6, 2016 — in the wake of Obama’s unsuccessful attempt to scapegoat law-abiding gun owners for the actions of a Muslim terrorist in San Bernardino.
Obama’s action was implemented as a “clarification” because he knew that his lawless moves could never pass muster under the rule-making procedures of the Administrative Procedures Act.
Under Obama’s now-moribund “clarification,” a gun owner could have been imprisoned for up to five years and fined $250,000 for “only one or two [firearms] transactions,” according to a White House fact sheet.
Note that, under Clinton, tens of thousands of licensees lost their licenses because they didn’t have “brick-or-mortar” stores.
Now, in a Clinton/Obama Mutt-and-Jeff routine, Obama proposed to imprison hobbyists who didn’t have licenses because the government refused to issue licenses to them.
Hence, a hobbyist who bought a firearm one day and sold it the next day at a profit could go to prison for five years. Obviously, the intent was to create such a cloud of ambiguity that gun owners would refrain from constitutionally protected activity (private firearms sales), for fear that they would run afoul of Obama’s amorphous rules.
Tragically, in some cases, Obama’s unlawful actions had exactly the intended effect.
But, thanks to President Donald Trump, Obama’s unlawful action will soon be repealed — as one of the priority actions of the incoming administration.
Gun Owners of America is optimistic that this is only the first in a series of Trump actions overturning illegal Obama actions.
We are also asking for Trump administration action:
- Removing the U.S. from the Anti-Gun UN Arms Trade Treaty;
- Repealing bullet and gun import bans going from Obama back to George H. W. Bush’s semi-auto import ban;
- Repealing the suspension of health privacy laws with respect to gun owners;
- Repealing executive actions encouraging doctors to inquire about gun ownership and to enter this information into a federal health database;
- Restoring gun rights for 257,000 law-abiding veterans;
- Repealing Obama’s efforts to strip Social Security recipients of their guns, merely because a guardian processes their checks.
There is an old joke that goes: “What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? Answer: A good start.”
The work of restoring the Second Amendment to its God-given status has only just begun.
But the important thing is that it has begun.
Sincerely,
Tim Macy
Chairman
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If I may, I think a couple of comments are appropriate 1. Several posts here appeared in Spanish, which I assume is the writers native language. I have no idea as to how many people who view these posts read Spanish, therefore once again, how about an English translation please. 2. President Trump is supposedly a strong supporter of Second Amendment Rughts, several aspects of which have been screwed up by past presidential executive orders. President Trump has the power, the authority to kill these executive orders, though one wonders if decision authority might be time limited, I don’t know.… Read more »
As to Trump Readises Pen To Remove Anti Gun Executive Orders, he had best quite making noises about it, and do it. TIme is passing, and the window for rescinding previous executive orders is closing. By the way, the extra lgal antics of the ATF remain, standing before the populace, in all their glory, waiting for concrete expressions of presidential disapproval, pardon me for so noting.
Re the headline that is part of the above article, at the possible risk of sounding bitter, I will cheer the president’s talked of action when I see actual performance, and not a moment before.
Given that the clock ticks on without respite, we need less talk of action, reversing Obama’s anti constitutional rights executive orders, and more actual reversal of same. Forgive my blunt speech.
Disgusting
An English translation of the comments appearing in the Spanish language, would, I think be helpful to most of the people who view comments here. How about such translation, being careful not to change the writers meaning.
What, I wonder is he, the president waiting for? He has the power to void executive orders of the previous president, though he must do that within a specified time period, as I recall. As for existing legislation, things like The Hughes Amendment, The GCA of 1968, the National Firearms Act of 1934, ridding us of those millstones requires congressional action, the congress needs to be pushed and pushed hard, pushed without respite here,if anything is to be accomplished. If the fortitude, the attention span needed to get these things done are lacking, as I tend to believe they unfortunately… Read more »
Good job don
Anyone who has lost their firearms through unlawful acts should be reimbursed by the government for these firearms at today’s prices. The payback price should come out of Obama’s pocket!
ME PERMITO HACER UN BREVE COMENTARIO,PARA QUE EL OCASIONAL LECTOR SAQUE SUS PROPIAS CONCLUSIONES .A VECES ES NECESARIO,QUE UN POLÍTICO QUE SE POSTULA PARA UN CARGO TAN ALTO COMO EL DE PRESIDENTE DE UN ESTADO,OTORGUE ALGUNA FRANQUICIA A UN SECTOR QUE PUEDE VOLCAR MUCHOS VOTOS,ES EL CASO DEL SEÑOR TRUMP CON RESPECTO A LA SEGUNDA EN MIENDA,DE LA QUE ME CONSIDERO DEFENSOR ABSOLUTO,PERO DESPUÉS DE GANAR Y COMO AL TIEMPO QUE PASARÍA SI SE ARREPINTIERA,PORQUE AL FIN DE CUENTAS,SON MUY POCOS LOS POLÍTICOS,LOS QUE ACEPTAN QUE LOS CIUDADANOS TENGAN Y DISPONGAN DE ARMAS ?. POR OTRA PARTE,AL SEÑOR TRUMP SE… Read more »