Remember the periodic gun control manias that have erupted over the past few years? Remember how they never went anywhere in Congress? And remember how, each time, I said that that didn't matter, because Barack Obama would just impose gun control by imperial executive diktat?
See, I told you so:
It’s starting.
As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.
What on Earth makes them think they'd be either willing or capable of doing that?
Wednesday night, Representative Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stepped in with a critical letter to the bureau demanding it explain the surprise and abrupt bullet ban.
Ooh, THAT'll chill the White House to their very marrow. Next thing you know, Chairman Goodlatte will be issuing a stern public statement.
And when BATF isn't forthcoming with a satisfactory answer? I imagine calls with that question "wouldn't be immediately returned".
The National Rifle Association, which is working with Goodlatte to gather co-signers, told Secrets that thirty House members have already co-signed the letter and Goodlatte and the NRA are hoping to get a total of 100 fast.
“The Obama administration was unable to ban America’s most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it’s trying to ban commonly owned and used ammunition through regulation,” said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, the group’s policy and lobby shop. “The NRA and our tens of millions of supporters across the country will fight to stop President Obama’s latest attack on our Second Amendment freedoms.”
...and fail miserably. Because the only way to even have a prayer of even slowing down this latest despotic action is by - you guessed it - defunding BATF, or at least the funding being devoted to this illegal ammo ban. And as we've already seen, Congressional Republicans don't have the balls to defund anything.
And "make no mistake," my Tea Party brethren, the AR-15 ammo E.O. is just the opening, well, "shot". There'll be plenty more imperial edicts where that came from, on every issue across the board of the Obamunist agenda that he'll never again bother to try to get through Congress, and all for the same reason: because he has the pilfered power to impose it himself. And since the GOP is too afraid of him to offer any genuine opposition, why shouldn't he see even the sky itself as no longer being a limit?
I warned y'all after the 2014 midterms that the next two years (at least) were going to be ugly beyond anything ever before seen in the annals of American political history. So, as bad as things have gotten this week, trust me when I say that we haven't seen anything yet.
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