Federal Gun laws passed quickly

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These are for the good but how did these pass so quickly without anyone hearing a peep? (Or have I just been living under a rock?)
Even though they seem to be in our favor it's kind of scary how quickly this moved.

Last week, Congress approved the Fiscal Year 2015 Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act. Included in the Act were a number of pro-gun provisions that prevent the Obama administration from implementing its anti-gun agenda.

Operation Choke Point no longer legal
EPA or other agencies cannot regulate lead target ammo
No funds to implement the UN Small Arms Treaty


Link:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20141219/pro-gun-protections-enacted-into-law
 
Yeah... uhh.. doesn't Obama have to put pen to paper to codify passed resolutions from congress in to law? Has he done that yet?
 
Yes he does Trent, I assumed since the headline said enacted into law that he's done that, but maybe it was a typo?
 
If it's all good then the gun rights organizations don't beat the drums and waste bandwidth on a media storm. They have budgets and bannering a positive improvement doesn't net them a lot more contributions.

Another factor is that the media can't score points as the cheerleaders of gun control highlighting good things for us in the news. Looks like a fail on their part and they don't need to let the people understand it's happened. So, they keep a lid on it and put another police shooting in those column inches or time slot.

It's not the way it should be but it is what happens. You have to dig into the press releases of pro gun organizations to find these things because nobody else will report them. It's not so much being under a rock as the media simple blacking out those stories.

It's about agenda reporting, even the local broadcasters do it. Light and fluffy news with a headliner tragedy to focus their anti gun slant is what we get, and trusting them to tell all truthfully is like asking Dan Rather to give it to us straight up. Not happening.
 
These laws were amendments to a larger appropriations (funding) bill. Passing and then getting presidential signature on the funding bill is what gets these laws on the books.
 
These laws were amendments to a larger appropriations (funding) bill. Passing and then getting presidential signature on the funding bill is what gets these laws on the books.
I know and that shouldn't be allowed. Like the time a couple years ago they tried to get a 10 round magazine limit attached to an internet privacy Bill. :mad:
 
^ What he said. Over the years I believe I've gotten better at finding sites, information sources, etc. over the internet to find out about things I care about. Because as mentioned above, if they do report about it, there's an agenda & spin, and then there's the other method....not reporting it at all. If you've ever been close to a news report / had first hand knowledge, you will see just how bad they torture the facts.

NRI-ILA is a good site for legislative action information.
Here in Ohio the Buckeye Firearms Association has good information.

Sometimes for world events, I'll look at a variety of foreign news outlets (Note, they have their own biases). Sometimes you hear about things a few days ahead of the US news, and sometimes with different / more detail.
 
I know and that shouldn't be allowed. Like the time a couple years ago they tried to get a 10 round magazine limit attached to an internet privacy Bill. :mad:

Oh there's still workarounds for that stuff even if they did try to prevent it.

Illinois' state constitution was designed to prevent that..

Bills, except bills for appropriations and for the
codification, revision or rearrangement of laws, shall be
confined to one subject. Appropriation bills shall be limited
to the subject of appropriations.

So what really ends up happening is we get a bill titled "PROTECTION OF CHILDREN" (or whatever), which upon submission reads:


"Modifies the criminal code of 2012 Section {whatever}; Adds a space after line three, second comma."

Then they take that shell bill, hit it with floor amendments, and pass crap right out of there without so much as any review process, committee oversight, or other forms of due diligence.
 
What happened here was that a major "must have" appropriation bill was amended to include the 3 mentioned pro-gun clauses. This put the president behind a rock and a hard place. If he didn't (or doesn't) sign the bill the government will shut down. Most likely the bill was signed or will be, but I'm sure he isn't a happy camper... :evil:

The bill itself isn't really that new, it was still going through hearings late last year.
 
"These are for the good but how did these pass so quickly without anyone hearing a peep? (Or have I just been living under a rock?)
Even though they seem to be in our favor it's kind of scary how quickly this moved."
No one 'peeped' since no one read the thing. It was over 2000 pages long (remember when ACA was the first bill that long, and it was such an outrage to everyone that no one had read it? Man, those were the days...). That's why we are all still subject to general warrants to tap our communications, because a select few individuals with their hands on the controls removed some key language before the final vote :)

What's funny, is that even in such an environment that obviously incentivizes 'dishonest' maneuvers like these, the Republicans clearly telegraphed their intentions as far as gun issues, and appear to have been completely consistent in enacting only what they said they would. No poison pills, no anti-Lautenberg amendment slipped in at zero hour, just what they had been pitching for like a week beforehand (that Chokepoint sucks, that the EPA needs to shut up, and that they still hate the Small Arms Treaty, which Kerry/Obama had no business signing without their say so in the first place).

Three measly items that weren't even contested significantly, on the back of the greatest rebuke to both their political opposition and gun control we've ever seen. No, I'm not impressed with their 'solidarity' to our cause, just yet :rolleyes:

"This put the president behind a rock and a hard place."
Yup, I'm sure the Prez was sweatin' bullets that he lost three of the most unimportant potential-possible-indirect threats to our hobby that he could come up with. The free market would circumvent Chokepoint (gun friendly creditors), the case law is clear on the EPA, and the SAT managed to be so bad that even a subservient Senate threatened to rebel over its very endorsement (let alone the implementation of its language)

TCB
 
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These laws were amendments to a larger appropriations (funding) bill. Passing and then getting presidential signature on the funding bill is what gets these laws on the books.

A similar tactic was used by Republicans several years ago to allow concealed carry in National Parks as long as the carrier complied with the state's concealed carry law.

I believe the amendment was attached at a bill about credit cards or something like that.
Want the bill to pass? Bite off on the amendment.
 
While I like some aspects of the NRA, the gun-grabbing side of things if nothing but fear mongering in order to get people to buy more guns.

Numerous politicians have over the years regulated guns in such ways as automatic weapons bans, or magazine limits.

But there is no evidence, none, other than malarkey published on questionable news blogs that our President is going to plain out take away guns.

Won't happen. I've been hearing "Obama is gunna git yer guns!" for over 6 years now. I'll believe it when I see it. Quite frankly it's a load of crap.
 
Won't happen. I've been hearing "Obama is gunna git yer guns!" for over 6 years now. I'll believe it when I see it. Quite frankly it's a load of crap.

Wool over your eyes. President Obama's MO has been to appoint people to high positions in various government offices that indirectly restrict gun rights, such as the EPA, SCOTUS and justice system. It's pretty slick, effectively protecting himself from being directly responsible for anything.
 
Wool over your eyes. President Obama's MO has been to appoint people to high positions in various government offices that indirectly restrict gun rights, such as the EPA, SCOTUS and justice system. It's pretty slick, effectively protecting himself from being directly responsible for anything.

This. Very slick.
 
^^^ Yup.

The ONLY reason for gun laws not being stricter, especially post SH, is because of people like us joining the NRA in droves in response to the ludicrous proposals by anti's at the time, and a narrow R majority in the house, coupled with a real lack of appetite for it by Sen Leahy in the Senate.

It was close. We can't forget that. I'll take the 'fear mongering' by the NRA for what it is. It simply matches the strident anti drivel that is continually being pushed by the other side. The antis use emotion and politics to push their agenda, and the NRA matches their tactics. It's really the only way to do it.
 
"I've been hearing "Obama is gunna git yer guns!" for over 6 years now. I'll believe it when I see it. Quite frankly it's a load of crap."

Surely you don't think it's not for lack of trying? While not his top priority (money, authority, pet social issues, and most importantly destroying his opponents come first) he's been anything but neutral on the issue. That he's been stymied is thanks to circumstances beyond his control. While it may not be realistic to say he will get our guns, if such fear mongering is successful in getting lazy, unmotivated sideliners involved to defend their personal stake, all the better. A lot of people will not believe these dangers until they have come to pass.

TCB
 
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