Bman505
02-07-2009, 10:47 AM
After months of telling the American people he supports the Second Amendment, and only hours after being declared the president-elect, the Barack Obama Web site posted an agenda taken straight from the anti-gun lobby. It includes the following initiatives that seem designed to ban guns and drive law-abiding firearm manufactures and dealers out of business:
— Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent (this Clinton law "sunsetted" two years ago with no increase in related criminal activity as predicted by the anti's).
— Repealing the Tiahrt Amendment (prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than law enforcement agencies conducting a bona fide criminal investigation).
— Closing the gun-show loophole. Under federal law a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. In New Jersey, that's only at the address on the dealer's license.
— Making guns in this country "child-proof," a codeword for schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements. Firearm deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the number of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million.
With a Democratic-controlled Congress these are the "changes" we can look forward to.
Peter J. Oriente
Story from http://www.app.com/article/20090207/OPINION04/90207007/1032/OPINION
— Making the expired federal assault weapons ban permanent (this Clinton law "sunsetted" two years ago with no increase in related criminal activity as predicted by the anti's).
— Repealing the Tiahrt Amendment (prohibits the release of federal firearm tracing information to anyone other than law enforcement agencies conducting a bona fide criminal investigation).
— Closing the gun-show loophole. Under federal law a firearm dealer must conduct a background check on anyone to whom he sells a gun, regardless of where the sale takes place. In New Jersey, that's only at the address on the dealer's license.
— Making guns in this country "child-proof," a codeword for schemes designed to prevent the sale of firearms by imposing impossible or highly expensive design requirements. Firearm deaths among children have decreased 86 percent since 1975, even as the number of children and guns have risen dramatically. Today the chances of a child being killed in a firearm accident are less than one in a million.
With a Democratic-controlled Congress these are the "changes" we can look forward to.
Peter J. Oriente
Story from http://www.app.com/article/20090207/OPINION04/90207007/1032/OPINION