According to reports, Attorney General Eric Holder has begun the implementation of three gun control measures related to President Obama’s Jan. 16 executive orders.
These deal with information sharing, background checks, and name registries. Holder’s action on them appears to be part of a two pronged approach where he pushes certain measures behind the scenes while Congress considers other measures Obama suggested.
The first of these gun control measures would “expand access to information on gun permits to American Indian law enforcement agencies,” the second would “allow law enforcement to access the FBI’s national criminal database to conduct background checks on people they’re transferring weapons to,” and the third measure “would authorize the FBI to retain records on denied firearms transactions in a separate database for longer than 10 years.”
The last proposal is especially irksome, as it increases the amount of time the government can hold on to information acquired through certain background checks. In this way, it allows the creation of a de facto registry of people who have tried unsuccessfully to buy guns, and it’s just common sense that this information could easily be misused.
And this is all made more troubling by the fact that Holder “[concedes] that the impact of [these measures] is unknown at this point,” i.e., they may not even work. Therefore, in the end, these various gun control measures may simply be what we have all feared from the start–just another futile exercise in piling more restrictive regulations on law-abiding citizens.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/01/28/Eric-Holder-Goes-Around-Congress-On-Gun-Control
Our right to bear arms “shall not be infringed”.
These people like Holder should follow the laws that they are passing. After all these laws are not laws for the american people, these are laws that they are passing for themselves only. After all, these laws that they are all trying to get passed are unconstitucional and so there for illegal laws for any true american national to follow and respect. Like I think – they are passing these unconstitutional laws for themselves and not for the american people. As long as people are going to be intiminated into following these unlawful laws they will keep expecting us all to respect and follow their unconstitutional laws. Let them PTB, lawmakers , etc. etc. follow their own laws.
congress should defund the atf…
Why isn’t he in jail for his hand in dealing guns to Mexico (Fast and Furious), the same guns which were used in the murders of our own border patrol agents?
He’s “special”.
Scum like him NEVER go to jail.
All those working for the so-called ‘government’ are issued a free ‘stay out of jail card’.
How many more of these illegal shenanigans are the American People going to let slide by? Where is the new red line? Why can’t we make America for Americans and boot out of our government everyone who is not an American first and last? We need a tyranny of the people, not the of the government.