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Empty Rhetoric (Original Post) kpete Oct 2015 OP
K&R..... daleanime Oct 2015 #1
"Obama weighs expanding background checks through executive authority" Hortensis Oct 2015 #2
Great cartoon Gothmog Oct 2015 #3

Hortensis

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2. "Obama weighs expanding background checks through executive authority"
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 09:09 AM
Oct 2015

"In response to the latest mass shooting during his presidency, President Obama is seriously considering circumventing Congress with his executive authority and imposing new background-check requirements for buyers who purchase weapons from high-volume gun dealers.

Under the proposed rule change, dealers who exceed a certain number of sales each year would be required to obtain a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and perform background checks on potential buyers."

This is something Hillary Clinton suggested herself after Roseburg, BTW.

[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-weighs-expanding-background-checks-through-executive-authority/2015/10/08/6bd45e56-6b63-11e5-9bfe-e59f5e244f92_story.html|

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