Obama is using Executive Action to Side-Step Congress on Gun Control

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AUTHOR Bookworm

What the news reports tell you is that, when it comes to Congress, the worst of the gun control bills – most notably Dianne Feinstein’s major gun grab – are dead on arrival. The media may even tell you that a group of young guns in the Senate (Paul, Cruz, Rubio, and Lee) stand ready to filibuster any gun control bills that still make it to the floor.
What the reports don’t tell you is that none of this matters. President Obama is busy making an end-run around Congress and around the Second Amendment. If he has it his way, there will be almost no guns to buy and, if there are, there will be so many hurdles in your path, you won’t be able to buy them anyway. It will be precisely like standing in line to buy the single Kielbasa sausage on the shelf in an old-style Soviet food store.

Obama’s DHS has been buying up all the weapons and ammunition in sight. It won’t say why, but that’s what it’s doing. As a result, shelves are empty, and even police departments are going begging for bullets. Obama himself is issuing a variety of executive orders to make it harder for people to get guns. He’s ordering more stringent background checks. He’s also pouring scarce government funds into anti-gun research and propaganda. He’s even attempting to “shame” everyone into going along with his gun grab agenda:
Worst of all, though, is the way in which the Obama administration actively encouraged the United Nations to pass an Arms Trade Treaty (“ATT”). Obama’s crew did this by foregoing the usual “consensus” requirement, enabling the ATT to pass without United States participation. The fact that Obama kept the U.S.’s name off the treaty doesn’t lessen its effects. With the treaty in place it will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring legal weapons (such as the media’s hated Glock) into the country, and it will be expensive, if not impossible, for American manufacturers to get legal guns out of the country.
Obama is a president who gets what he wants — and to heck with the Bill of Rights, with the limitations placed on the Executive’s power, or with Congress. This leaves some of us wondering whether Congress will figure out that he’s quite possibly committed a series of impeachable offenses:

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.” –US Constitution. Article II, Sec. 4.

Obama’s response would be a predictable, “It’s only a crime if you get caught and if anyone bothers to do something about it.”