{"id":4301,"date":"2011-07-12T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4301"},"modified":"2011-07-12T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:42:15","slug":"the-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gunpoliticsny.com\/?p=4301","title":{"rendered":"The Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily Beast reports on Obama’s gun control plan, “Obama\u2019s Quiet Guns Crackdown<\/a>“:<\/p>\n

“… Administration officials told Newsweek and The Daily Beast that starting as early as next week, Obama<\/a> will begin a series of changes designed to tighten regulations and penalties under current laws\u2014bypassing a fight in Congress with the pro-gun National Rifle Association<\/a> in the process. \u00a0The changes will include: \u00a0A<\/em> national electronic system designed to make background checks for handgun buyers simpler and faster, leaving an electronic paper trail under a law named for James Brady<\/a>, Ronald Reagan\u2019s press secretary who was wounded in the 1981 assassination attempt on the president …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We need to watch to see if this becomes defacto registration.<\/p>\n

“… A new reporting requirement<\/a> that federally licensed gun shops report any person who tries to buy two long-arm weapons near the Mexican border over a five-day period …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bloomberg loves this<\/a>. \u00a0NRA does not<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“… Tougher sentencing guidelines for straw buyers that Holder\u2019s department pushed through procedural hoops at the U.S. Sentencing Commission earlier this year …”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Going to have see what exactly this is.<\/p>\n

This whole thing looks like Obama is trying to shift the discussion away from the Fast & Furious<\/a> scandal. Brit Hume is right on when he calls it a cover-up:
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