Obama’s Executive Actions on Guns Are All Politics

Once again, President Obama is back to the “look, look, we’re doing something” strategy as opposed to going back to the drawing board and working with Congress

Genevieve Wood, --January 6, 2016

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The controversial measures President Barack Obama announced will likely face constitutional challenges in the courts, but it’s already clear they won’t be effective.
The main executive action Obama announced that raises legal questions is about defining who must register as a licensed gun dealer and who does not have to register. The president has some, but not a lot of, leeway in how and to whom he applies the law. But will the president’s desired goal of “closing gun show loopholes,” by requiring more of those selling guns at such venues to become licensed, do what he claims—namely, decrease the number of crimes committed with guns? More...

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