More Gun-Grabbing Executive Orders

Shamelessly exploiting the nation's grief-stricken state last December after the murder of 20 children and seven adults in Newtown, Connecticut, Barack Obama announced that he would bypass Congress and sign 23 executive orders to "do something" about "gun violence." At Thursday's ceremonial swearing-in of new ATF director Todd Jones, the White House announced two new orders.

One order closes the "loophole" that allowed the registration of a firearm to a National Firearms Act (NFA) trust or corporation, which the White House claims provided a way for "felons, domestic abusers, and others prohibited from having guns [to] easily evade the required background check and gain access to machine guns or other particularly dangerous weapons." By "machine guns," of course, they mean semiautomatic rifles. But when was the last time an inner city thug went to the trouble of securing a firearm through an NFA trust before perpetrating a drive-by shooting?

The second order prevents anyone save museums from buying firearms previously exported from the U.S. to allied military forces. "This new policy will help keep military-grade firearms off our streets," the White House said. The Left continually complains about guns "on our streets" in order to scare people, though the White House "fact sheet" didn't point to a single crime committed with these guns. What it does mean is that ex-military M1 Garands -- not exactly the gang banger's weapon of choice -- will be even harder to come by. No word on how this order will affect illicit government sales to Mexican drug cartels.

http://patriotpost.us/editions/19782