NRA Smears Obama's Stance on Gun Ownership.

Barack Obama is trying to walk a fine line between protecting the right to bear arms guaranteed under the Second Amendment and clamping down on more than 30,000 deaths from firearms that happen every year in the United States.

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The laws Barack Obama supports that the NRA are vehemently against include sensible acts like:

* Mandatory waiting periods to purchase a gun

* Requiring citizens to actually register their firearms

* Mandatory micro stamping of guns to aid tracing weapons

* Banning inexpensive handguns that make it easier for criminals to acquire

* Limit gun purchases to one gun a month

* Require training for gun owners

* Restrict gun ownership to citizens 21 and older

* Eliminate right to carry concealed weapons

* Ban gun shops from operating within 5 miles of a school

* Ban resale of police firearms which include high powered assault weapons

* Ban high capacity ammunition magazines that are often used by gang members in drive by shootings and not needed to kill a deer

Those do not sound the like rantings of a crazy person hell bent on denying citizens the right to bear arms. They sound like well thought out solutions to curb gun deaths. Training citizens to safely handle firearms, restricting access to guns and assault ammunition by criminals, registering guns and making them more traceable, those are all the acts of common sense, despite what the NRA wants citizens to believe.

Yeah, that sounds like a staunch defender of our civil rights. The NRA is just 'smearing' him with lies and hysteria because his common sense solutions amount to stripping Americans of their rights that they shouldn't have in the first place.

Much more over at Of Arms and the law.