According to The One’s website:
Address Gun Violence in Cities: As president, Barack Obama would repeal the Tiahrt Amendment, which restricts the ability of local law enforcement to access important gun trace information, and give police officers across the nation the tools they need to solve gun crimes and fight the illegal arms trade. Obama and Biden also favor commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment rights of gun owners, while keeping guns away from children and from criminals who shouldn’t have them. They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof. They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.
So, let’s see:
1: Tiahrt Amendment. According to Wikipedia:
Since its passage in 2003 as an amendment to an appropriations bill, the Amendment has forbidden the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives *(ATF) from releasing information from its firearms trace database to anyone other than a law enforcement agency or prosecutor in connection with a criminal investigation, and any data so released is deemed inadmissible in a civil lawsuit.[6] The mayors contend that the Amendment restricts access of cities and law enforcement to gun trace data, hindering municipal police departments’ ability to track down sellers of illegal guns.[7] Mayor Bloomberg has called the Amendment “an insult to the thousands of police officers that face the threat of illegal guns.”[8]
In July, 2007, after the House Appropriations Committee rebuffed attempts to repeal the amendment, the Senate Appropriations Committee went further, approving a bill that, according to the New York Times, “threatens law enforcement officials with prison time for using gun tracing data beyond a specific investigation, say, for identifying and targeting trafficking patterns.”
Obama wants to make it easier for the government to track law-abiding citizens and their legal activities.
2: commonsense measures that respect the Second Amendment. Translation: stomping on the Second Amendment and gun owners, while at the same time telling them to enjoy and appreciate it. See “rapist” for further examples.
3: closing the gun show loophole. The “gun show loophole” is every bit as real as the “used book store loophole.”
4: making guns in this country childproof. Ho-lee shit. “Childproof?” This means they want to do nationally what the local D.C government unConstitutionally did locally… make guns incapable of being used for self-defense.
5: making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent. Oddly, the Assault Weapons Ban did not ban assault weapons. Weapons capable of being fired fully automatically – a requirement to be an “assault weapon” – have been illegal since the 1930’s. The AWB was just a way to annoy the hell out of gun owners.
<>I say we begin impeachment proceedings *now.* Obama/Biden are announcing their intent to crap all over the Constitution. That would be “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
