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Today President Obama announced two new Executive Orders designed to further harass American gun owners.
The first change will be to NFA Trusts making it harder and more time consuming for corporations and Trusts to acquire NFA items. Much like the Hughes Amendment passed by President Reagan in the 1980′s, Obama's changes to NFA Trusts will have zero effect on the reduction of crime in the United States. The NFA Trust policy changes discussed previously on TheBangSwitch will do little more than further increase already ridiculous processing times for transfers of NFA items to law abiding Americans.
Not being content with needlessly attacking NFA Trusts, Obama also announced that he is stopping the import of U.S. military surplus firearms. The reports this morning weren't specific as to the types of firearms to be banned from import, however the Administration made the following statement.
"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."
The ban is likely to stop the repatriation of M1 Garands, 1903 Springfields, M1 Carbines, and other U.S. military surplus sent to our allies in the past. What's not clear as of this writing is if this new import ban will also impact non-U.S. surplus firearms. Right now the ban appears to only deal with U.S. made firearms that have left the country.
Since the tragic events of Sandy Hook, the Obama Administration has announced a total of 25 new Executive Orders related to firearms regulation including the two announced today. It seems what the President can't accomplish through the Congress he will do on his own through the misuse of Executive Orders to bypass the legislative process.