Federalist: On May 30, former president Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at an event in Brazil. The event, VTEX Day, is billed as “the largest digital innovation event in Latin America.”
During a conversation with a host on stage during the digital innovation event, Obama took the opportunity to speak negatively about U.S. gun laws. He said, “Our gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon, any time, without much, if any, regulation. They can buy [guns] over the internet, they can buy machine guns.”
His statement to a foreign audience includes six lies about our gun laws and one truth. Let’s start out on a positive note and cover the one true statement first.
‘Gun laws in the United States don’t make much sense.’
On this, Obama and I agree. I doubt, however, that we share the same reasoning.
Firearms in the United States are regulated by myriad, and often nonsensical or conflicting, laws and regulations. Here are just a couple examples of our absurd gun laws:
- If a plastic foregrip is added to an AR-15 pistol, without federal paperwork approved, taxes paid, engravings made, and months of wait-time, it is an illegal firearm. However, an AR-15 rifle with the exact same operating mechanism and cartridge fired may have the same foregrip added without consequence.
- A handgun with a rifled barrel (twisting grooves for bullet spin) that fires a shotgun shell is a standard firearm. However, the same handgun with a smooth barrel is a highly regulated firearm.
- A semi-auto shotgun made in America may hold more than five shotgun shells. However, if the same shotgun were imported, it may not.
Well, that was easy—we’ve covered all of Obama’s true statements. Now let’s tackle the lies.
The whole ban on full auto weapons angers me and I think it would anger the Founders.
The fact that the government can own and possess weapons that the average citizen cannot own or possess flies in the face of the reason the Founders established the 2nd Amendment in the first place…
Barack Obama was a keynote speaker at “the largest digital innovation event in Latin America.”
Ha ha… “Digital innovation event”…ha ha.
I’m with you all the way, Muddjuice.
I’m pissed they have rules against me putting a vertical foregrip on my G20.
Complete BS
“ATF has long held that by installing a vertical fore grip on a handgun, the handgun is no longer
designed to be held and fired by the use of a single hand. Therefore, if individuals install a
vertical fore grip on a handgun, they are “making” a firearm requiring registration with ATF’s
NFA Branch. Making an unregistered “AOW” is punishable by a fine and 10 years’
imprisonment. Additionally, possession of an unregistered “AOW” is also punishable by fine and
10 years’ imprisonment. ”
They slipped that in when no one was looking.
Why on earth would it matter except they don’t want you to improve your handling of a weapon and criminalize whatever they can about weapons.
They made up their own rule that a hand gun must only be used by one hand.
Complete BS. “has long held” Making rules on their own isn’t even legal. Who GAS what they have long held? It is NOT “making” a weapon! Sheesh, they are evil!
Obama is a fraud and a traitor. The guy is scum, and no one is forgetting it.
Not that I’m current, but held a FFL until Clinton / Reno. At that time (if memory serves) there was about 2 1/2 inches of law in two soft bound books that had to be followed by all dealers. There’s a damn sight more than filling out 4473’s. Then you add IL and CROOK COUNTY requirements to the mix. Getting much worse now in IL with crap being passe as I post this.
Believe there’s going to be some ignoring what they’re passing…
He’s a cheap dime-store hood won the political lottery
I grant his statements their due gravitas based on that
Why would anyone believe anything that came out of his mouth?
Ewwwuuu, I shouldn’t have put it that way. I meant: believe anything he SAYS.
As the top gun salesman of 2008 – 2016, he’s also a TYPICAL salesman.
i.e. – he doesn’t know a DAMN thing ABOUT what he’s selling. 🙄
Speaking of lies: Hey barry, how did you get into harvard with your lousy grades?
The Kenyan did what all self-serving communist shitheads do.
Lied.
So why is this commie Kenyan POS running around the world talking shit about OUR country? Shouldn’t he be locked up at GITMO?
The scumbag was just in Canada badmouthing Trump. His message was, in a nutshell… I left things on a good path and the world safer, more prosperous, etc… we’ll get through this dark time of Fox News deplorables.
What a delusional POS.
I still just want to look him straight in the eye and tell him what a cheap, lying, no good, rotten, four-flushing, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-eating, brainless, dickless, purple-lipped, hopeless, heartless, bug eyed, big-eared, incompetent, inexperienced, lazy, vacationing, golfing, childish, naïve, wildly-spending, partying, vindictive, arrogant, stumbling, sarcastic, narcissistic, corrupt, stone-walling, out-of-touch, dope-smoking, pot-headed, Bush-blaming, teleprompter reading “Corpse-Man”, My man “Alex de Toke-Ville”, mom-jeans-wearing, shame gland missing, Peace-Prize stealing, red line…pink line…salmon line…fuchsia line…maroon line…puce line… Yellow line-drawing, two-bit, belly-aching, finger-pointing, “Flexible”, No-records, Reset Button Bonehead, Mexican gun-running, Treasury-looting, economy-wrecking, Cash-for-Clunkers, Phones for Lo-Foz, recess-appointing, process-circumventing, bald-faced liar, fraud, “I will restore trust in Government”, “Al-Qaeda-decimated”, “You didn´t build that”, “Most transparent administration ever”, “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor”, “Premiums will be lowered by $2500”, “I’ve got a pen and a phone”, “Russia is just a regional power”, “The good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want”, autocratic, Constitution-stomping, Bullgarian-speaking, Benghazi bullshitting, productivity-obstructing, court-tampering, dictatorial, monument-Barrycading, race-divisive, class-divisive, community-organizing, selfie-posing, celebrity gad-fly, healthcare-destroying, “They don´t like me cuz I´m Black”, Al-Qaeda appeasing, lawless, phony-baloney, bitch-slapped, pussy-whipped, flat-footed, petty, fundamentally-transforming, maladroit, narcissistic, corrupt, sheet-grabbing, pillow-biting, stair-prancing, Gay-obsessed, ankle-grabbing-flexible, records-hiding, treasonous, Manchurian Communist-Organizing, Marxist Muzlim Mallard (disguised as a Black man) whose only real accomplishment, was the most scandalous betrayal of the America people in the history of this nation.
Holy shit! Where´s the Tylenol!
Surely the people that paid Barry the big bucks to say something publicly in Brazil knew that all they’d receive in exchange was a big old Crock-O’Crap.
He was an incompetent corrupt lying president. He’ll be the same as ex-president till his last breath.
Tony R – Imagine his disappointment when he found it wasn’t ^that^ sort of “digital”…
Bald faced liar. Still.
American political figures traveling to foreign countries and bashing America seems to be gaining popularity.
Only two things come out of MMMD’s mouth, lies and cocks…