President Obama is announcing his long-awaited executive order on guns on Tuesday. In it, he claims to want to close the “gun show loophole.”
Here’s President Obama’s “brilliant idea” according to the Washington Examiner.
President Obama will announce Tuesday that he’s issuing an executive action to close the so-called “gun-show loophole” that gun sellers have used to avoid registering as dealers and to circumvent rules requiring dealers to check customers’ backgrounds.
The executive action will clarify that it doesn’t matter if a business is conducted from a store, a gun show or online. “If you’re in the business of selling firearms, you must get a license and conduct background checks,” Valerie Jarrett, a White House senior adviser, said on a phonecall with reporters Monday evening. “Just because you shop for a gun with a mouse instead of your feet, you shouldn’t be able to avoid a background check.”
Of course most gun sales online and at gun shows already require background checks. Most sales at both are done by licensed dealers and they must already do background checks.
What President Obama has done is enact a feel good measure and call it progress. It’s a veil for his hatred of the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms. Just because this executive order is meaningless, gun rights supporters should not let down their guard.
AAN Staff
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