Obama's New Executive Orders on Gun Control and Why the Liberal Mainsteam Media is a Farce

Reading this article by the New York Daily News, one would come away with the impression that Obama is doing all he can to combat gun violence in this country in bypassing Congress with two new executive orders. However, one would have to take the New York Daily News at face value in order to believe that. For those that really want to analyze the executive orders and their efficacy in combatting gun violence, these new executive orders make us wonder what planet this administration and the New York Daily News is from when they try to frame this as 'common sense' gun laws.

One of the executive orders now restricts the importation of military surplus firearms that have been sold overseas. While this sounds good, it really has zero effect on gun crime. Some might think that military surplus firearms refer to machine guns or 'weapons of war' that gun control proponents like to refer. True machine guns or modern weapons that our military use are already highly regulated and extremely difficult to buy. So much so, that what this executive order actually does is restrict the importation of your great grandfather's old rifle that he might have used in World War 2. How many gun crimes are committed with old World War 2 era rifles?

Obama's other executive order has to do with restricting NFA trusts. NFA items are those items like machine guns that require one to go through a thorough background check with the BATF in order to purchase as well as requiring a tax stamp. These items are highly regulated and the violation of NFA laws come with very harsh penalties. However this administration and the article would have us believe that criminals obtain machine guns and other NFA items through NFA trusts in order to obtain these highly regulated firearms without a background check. This claim is blatantly outlandish. Criminals do not go through NFA trusts to obtain firearms. Why would they? If they are interested in buying a machine gun from an associate, why would they go through legal channels to do it? Please Mr. Biden, explain to me how this is common sense.

The only thing these two executive orders accomplish for this administration is making it appear that this administration is addressing gun violence by targeting firearms that were never really used in gun crimes to begin with. In the end the only one that loses is law-abiding gun owners. Criminals will shrug and continue being criminals while this administration and gun control advocates pat themselves on the back.