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GOP Rep. Threatens Impeachment Over Obama’s Possible Executive Order On Gun Control

by Anjali Sareen | 6:01 pm, January 14th, 2013 » 6 comments

GOP Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) took the gun control debate up a notch Monday when he issued a statement threatening to file articles of impeachment if President Obama bans assault weapons or attempts other gun control measures via executive order.
Stockman said any such actions on the president’s part would be an infringement on a “constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms.” He called the possibility of an executive order “unconscionable” and vowed to “thwart this action by any means necessary, including, but not limited to…filing articles of impeachment.”
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At Obama’s recent press conference, he hinted at the possibility of executive action, saying that he was “confident” there were “steps” he could take that wouldn’t “require legislation.” Vice President Joe Biden said the White House was considering an executive order last week.
Stockman said this rhetoric was “an existential threat to this nation.”
“The President’s actions are not just an attack on the Constitution and a violation of his sworn oath of office – they are a direct attack on Americans that place all of us in danger,” he said. “If the President is allowed to suspend constitutional rights on his own personal whims, our free republic has effectively ceased to exist.”