Obama's Gun Control By Executive Fiat

Who says you can't always get what you want.  Obama believes he can.  His administration is working on getting gun control via executive fiat.  He's not touching the guns, but he is eating up all the ammo.

This past weekend on Aaron Klein's radio show  Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Inhofe was a guest and he  accused the Obama administration of what many others already believed---of buying up ammunition at an unprecedented level to bypass the Second Amendment so gun-owners “can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

“Let’s make sure that your audience out there is aware, Aaron, that our president, Obama, has been doing everything he could to stop the private ownership of guns in America,” Inhofe said. “You know that, everyone knows that. And yet he’s been voted down in a big way by a large majority. And so my feeling is that he’s doing this to buy up [ammunition] so that we can’t buy: Honest, law-abiding citizens here in the United States, like my son, can’t even buy ammunition because government is purchasing so much.”

Inhofe is about to introduce the Ammunition Management for More Obtainability (AMMO) bill that will limit “non-defense, armed federal agencies to pre-Obama levels of ammunition.” It's designed to stop the president and "Big Sister" to stop hoarding all the bullets.

“It’s designed to have the GAO (that’s the Government Accounting Office) inventory — not the Defense Department, but all other departments that use weaponry — as to what they’re doing in terms of the amount of ammunition that they have bought to dry up the market for honest, law-abiding citizens,” Inhofe said.

The Oklahoma Republican called the buy-ups intentional and referred to testimony last month from Nick Nayak, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief procurement officer, who said DHS has the right to buy up the ammunition.

“I believe it’s intentional,” Inhofe said. “Now we had someone testify the other day the DHS, the Department of Homeland Security, has the ‘right’ — this is a bureaucrat that said this — they have the ‘right’ to buy as much as they want, and they’re planning to buy 750 million rounds. Well, that is more than three times the amount that our soldiers are using for training to defend our nation. So, it’s just another effort to restrict gun activity and ownership. We have in this country the Second Amendment, that preserves the right to keep and bear arms, and the president doesn’t believe in that.”

With the federal government drowning in debt there is no reason for the the purchase of all this extra ammunition. Well there is one reason. Our imperial President cannot get what he wants in congress so he is going around congress and ruling by royal decree.  He did it with the dream act, with "recess appointments", and with so many other actions during the past five years.  Sadly he does not believe we have a republic, he believes we have a monarchy.