Bye Bye Congress: Obama Plans To Change The Way We Look At Guns Forever


Frustrated by the long, deadly string of mass murders by mentally ill gunmen on his watch in the U.S., President Obama is considering dodging an equally frustrating Congress and imposing crackdown measures through executive action.

Obama is deciding whether to require gun dealers who exceed a certain volume of sales to get a special license from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms – and then perform background checks on would-be buyers.

Such a move would effectively rewrite the ATF’s definition of firearm businessmen, and has been vetted by White House lawyers as within the president’s executive authority and not reliant on congressional approval, according to The Washington Post.

Obama on Friday was flying to Oregon to meet with families of the victims of the Oct. 1 mass murder at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.



The Roseburg shooter, Christopher Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old student at the school, was described by law enforcement authorities as having severe and prolonged mental health issues, white supremacist views and a fascination with mass shootings.

Harper-Mercer shot himself dead at the end of his rampage as police closed in. Obama’s plan is rooted in a list of suggestions he had asked his staff to devise after the December 2012 shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut that killed 20 students and six staffers.

That list eventually grew to 23 specific executive actions which Obama announced in January 2013, and in August of that year he used executive authority to require background checks on gun purchases by corporations as well as a federal ban on imported military surplus guns to private groups.

In April 2013, however, Obama’s attempt to push through a federal requirement for universal background checks on gun sales was blocked by Republicans in the Senate. The new proposal is actually not new – it was considered but discarded by the administration in 2013. Obama’s advisors had considered that he apply the background check standard to dealers who sell at least 50 guns a year, but some administration lawyers worried it wouldn’t be legally defensible.



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