New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence

FACT SHEET: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence

Today, the Obama administration announced two new common-sense executive actions to keep the most dangerous firearms out of the wrong hands and ban almost all re-imports of military surplus firearms to private entities. These executive actions build on the 23 executive actions that the Vice President recommended as part of the comprehensive gun violence reduction plan and the President unveiled on January 16, 2013.

Even as Congress fails to act on common-sense proposals, like expanding criminal background checks and making gun trafficking a federal crime, the President and Vice President remain committed to using all the tools in their power to make progress toward reducing gun violence.

Building on the 23 Executive Actions the President and Vice President Unveiled Last January

   Last December, the President asked the Vice President to develop a series of recommendations to reduce gun violence. On January 16, 2013, they released these proposals, including 23 executive actions. With the first Senate confirmation of an ATF Director on July 31, 2013, the Administration has completed or made significant progress on 22 of the 23 executive actions. The new executive actions unveiled today build on this successful effort.

Closing a Loophole to Keep Some of the Most Dangerous Guns Out of the Wrong Hands

   Current law places special restrictions on many of the most dangerous weapons, such as machine guns and short-barreled shotguns.  These weapons must be registered, and in order to lawfully possess them, a prospective buyer must undergo a fingerprint-based background check.
    However, felons, domestic abusers, and others prohibited from having guns can easily evade the required background check and gain access to machine guns or other particularly dangerous weapons by registering the weapon to a trust or corporation.  At present, when the weapon is registered to a trust or corporation, no background check is run.  ATF reports that last year alone, it received more than 39,000 requests for transfers of these restricted firearms to trusts or corporations.
   Today, ATF is issuing a new proposed regulation to close this loophole.  The proposed rule requires individuals associated with trusts or corporations that acquire these types of weapons to undergo background checks, just as these individuals would if the weapons were registered to them individually.  By closing this loophole, the regulation will ensure that machine guns and other particularly dangerous weapons do not end up in the wrong hands.

Keeping Surplus Military Weapons Off Our Streets

   When the United States provides military firearms to its allies, either as direct commercial sales or through the foreign military sales or military assistance programs, those firearms may not be imported back into the United States without U.S. government approval.  Since 2005, the U.S. Government has authorized requests to reimport more than 250,000 of these firearms.
   Today, the Administration is announcing a new policy of denying requests to bring military-grade firearms back into the United States to private entities, with only a few exceptions such as for museums.  This new policy will help keep military-grade firearms off our streets.

1) The main reason people go the trust/corporation route is to bypass the CLEO signoff requirement when the CLEO won't sign.  I'm not sure from reading this if it's still necessary or not.

2) No more reimports of M1 Carbines or M1 Garands.

Congress passed the laws that allow presidents to issue such regulations.  Congress can change the law too, but they won't  do anything if you just read this and stew about it.

You still get a background check when forming a trust. Just CLEO sign off.....


This is crap.

Call, write, email and visit your elected representives and prospective candidates....REGISTER to VOTE.  Elections have consequences!

Remember when the President stated that he's "Not coming after your guns......"


Take Action and Get Involved.....

The CMP, as a corporation chartered by Congress to do something that Obama is banning by executive Fiat, would seem to have grounds for a lawsuit.

Anyone else whenever liberals use the phrase " common-sense "  .....  (fill in the blank)

The CMP doesn't import any firearms.  They are shipped to the US Army, which gives them to the CMP.

This BS is getting old. If they are not doing background checks on people in trusts, why the hell is it taking them 7.5+ months to approve!!!

Even at that, when was the last time a legal NFA weapon was used in a crime.

When was the last time someone was killed with a Military Surplus weapon?

We all know criminals take time to do paperwork and wait nine months for it to come back to go on a killing spree. Since the hollywood bank robery aka 44 minutes how many true machine guns are used in crimes

If you were hoping for some of those M1 Garands and carbines the ROK
wanted to sell back to us, you're SOL by presidential executive action.
,.. And, here's some irony for you: Malcolm X
had a M1 carbine for home defense. James Earl Jones has written about buying
his M1911A1 and M1 carbine when he got out of the Army.
Prof. Don Kates carried a M1 carbine when he was
a young civil rights worker in the South, and was told he was under-gunned,
because everybody else were carrying "...shotguns or battle rifles"


http://www.vice.com/read/the-former-civil-rights-activist-who-created-the-right-to-bear-arms

I believe those weapons were bought as semi autos and illegally converted. Not bought as NFA weapons.

Even those were just illegally modified rifles.

For those of you so motivated to write your representative, don't forget to mention that in the latest attempted AWB, even Senator Feinstein didn't believe these WWII relics were a danger.

Here's a nice write-up sponsored by Century arms.

Here is a good article on the changes to the NFA procedures that explains things for people who are not familiar with NFA:
http://soldiersystems.net/2013/09/01/what-last-weeks-executive-action-nfa-trust-corporate-transfers-means-to-you/

A good page with lots in it from an attorney who does NFA trusts.  He also has other articles on actions in response to the BATFE proposals:
http://blog.princelaw.com/2013/08/30/a-summary-of-atfs-draft-proposal/