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The hissy-fit

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The little man who just can’t handle the word “NO” had himself a nice tantrum in the rose garden today…

Over at Breitbart, Joel Pollak observed…

Ironically, while accusing others of lying, President Obama resorted to false claims and statistics about current laws, including the repeatedly debunked argument that 40% of gun sales are private, and that guns can be bought over the Internet without background checks. It was partly the dishonesty of those very arguments that had led potential supporters of new bipartisan legislation to doubt the administration’s motives in supporting the bill.

The administration’s defeat came earlier Wednesday, when the Senate failed to pass a cloture motion to end debate on a bipartisan proposal introduced by Sens. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA). Only 54 votes of the necessary 60 votes could be found to support an expanded federal background check system (among other changes), partly because of fears that extending such checks would require the creation of a federal gun registry that could lead to confiscation.

Related to the Toddler-in-Chief’s tirade, is this analysis from David Kopel of what the real effects of Toomey-Manchin would have been. Under current law, a national gun registry would be illegal. Under Toomey-Manchin, only the Attorney General would be barred from starting or maintaining a gun or gun owner registry. Every other Federal agency would be allowed to compile gun and gun owner registries. Furthermore, under Toomey-Manchin, the BATFE would have been allowed to start assembling a gun and gun owner database from the collection of 4473 forms they possess that were surrendered by FFLs that went out of business or retired. Current law prevents this, but under Toomey-Manchin, only data from current FFLs is protected; not the old data that’s now the property of the BATFE. Under current Federal law, oppressive States like New York or Connecticut are not allowed to harass law abiding gun owners who transit those States while travelling. Under Toomey-Manchin, that protection would have been ended. Taking a gun into those States without an impossible-to-get gun permit would land you in jail.


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