Obama wants to prohibit gun sales to anyone on the "no-fly" list or the "terror watch list". Bad idea. Both lists are operated by bureaucrats, probably Obama voting bureaucrats. They can put anyone they like on a list, for any reason they like, or no reason at all. They won't take anyone off a list. Denying the right to purchase firearms to anyone on a list means giving Obama the power to deny firearms to anyone he dislikes. How much do you trust Obama, or his bureaucrats?
Obama wants to "close the gun show loophole". He, and the rest of the lefties, never define just what here. Presumable it means requiring everyone who sells a weapon to anyone to go thru the back ground check hassle. Right now only real gun stores and holders of the federal firearms dealer license are required to do the background check stuff. Obama wants to force everyone, for instance a father selling a gun to his son, to do the bureaucratic dance. Which doesn't do any of us any good, but it keeps the bureaucrats on the payroll.
Then Obama has been trashing the long guns used at San Bernardino as "assault rifles". Ohhh, scary. Trouble is, there are no objective differences between deer rifles and "assault rifles". The San Bernardino rifles were ordinary Armalite style .223 self loading rifles. My antique Marlin 30-30 lever action throws a heavier slug than .223 and hits harder. And the lever action can reload faster than the eye can pick a new target. "Assault rifle" is really a styling term, if it has a black plastic stock it's an "assault rifle". Walnut stock makes it a deer rifle.
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