Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Hillary’s ‘Gun Show Loophole’ Proposal Is A Joke

Now, if Hillary thinks Congress should pass a law regulating private transactions between private individuals who reside in the same state, that’s her prerogative. But she should at least be honest about what she’s doing and about what authority the president has to do it. The president cannot by fiat eliminate the existing exemption. It can be done only by Congress. Obama tried to do so in 2013, but failed. Rather than making up gun control fairy tales to comfort her supporters, perhaps Hillary Clinton should explain to them how she’ll get a majority of the U.S. House and 60 U.S. senators to sign on to her gun control plan.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

So how on Earth does the State intend to 'regulate' private sale, in private places, of private property that there is no knowledge of? How does Hilary intend to 'regulate' criminals who already make their sales outside the present requirements?

Mere grasping for power using platitudes she cannot and will not be able to deliver on.

Unfortunately she may well 'harvest' much of the low info knee-jerk vote ... hopefully not a majority!

III

PO'd American said...

Just more Bread and Circus tickets for the unwashed masses (IAW, qualified Hillary voters).

Galaxie_Man said...

"Rather than making up gun control fairy tales to comfort her supporters, perhaps Hillary Clinton should explain to them how she’ll get a majority of the U.S. House and 60 U.S. senators to sign on to her gun control plan."

As Obummer has already demonstrated, who needs `em? Congress shmongress, Demon-Crats only need to rule by diktat and are backed up by an activist SCOTUS! Checks and balances? Co-equal branches? Surly you jest.

Better yet, she should explain how it would be enforced against the millions (not thousands) of Patriots that would be joining in The Armed Civil Disobedience of Non-Compliance, that is already a growing movement.

Defy-Deceive-Resist-Evade-Smuggle and NEVER COMPLY!

As always....their move.

Informed42 said...

Hillary is a joke and is running her yap without knowing what she's talking about again, as she usually does. She's also spouted off about people 'suing manufacturers' of guns misused by individuals. An issue that has already been hashed and re-hashed in the courts and didn't fly. And it won't fly if it's brought
up again.

As the article states, and lists the Federal Statutes the ATF goes by, there are a
number of things the BATFE and Congress and the Courts have never been specific on. One is- “occasional sales” . Another is- 'a significant number of guns'. This term has ranged from 3 guns to 6 guns and all over the place in different ATF cases. NO
specific number has ever been decided on and stuck with.

This portion of the Statute hasn't any specifics either- but such term shall not include a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms (18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(21)(C));

These 'unspecified' items have been used in various ways in various cases where ATF
arbitrarily brought charges against law abiding gun owners to generate cases to attempt to justify their continued existence. They have been doing the same crap since 1972 when they were created and the number of moonshiners decreased due to the jump in sugar costs.

The tactics were the subject of Senate Floor Discussions in 1984-86 and were termed
'unconstitutional', 'despicable' and a few other things, but Congress hasn't fixed the practices yet, and so ATF continues to run rogue and ruin people's lives with their shit.