Record U.S. Gun Production as Obama ‘Demonized’ on Issue.

Record U.S. Gun Production as Obama ‘Demonized’ on Issue.(Bloomberg).

U.S. gun makers led by Sturm Ruger & Co. and Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (SWHC) churned out a record number of firearms in 2012, government data show, continuing a trend of robust production during Democratic presidencies.

More than 8.57 million guns were produced in 2012, up 31 percent from 6.54 million in 2011, according to data released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has been tracking the statistics since 1986.

Almost as many guns -- 26.1 million -- were produced during Democrat Barack Obama’s first term as president as during the entire eight-year presidency of his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush, the ATF data show. Read the full story here.

US Senate Tells Obama 'No' to Implementing UN Arms Trade Treaty.

US Senate Tells Obama 'No' to Implementing UN Arms Trade Treaty.(GP).

One of the key pieces of international law that needs to be in place before the UN can take over the world is to control all weapons, including handguns, rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic and automatic weapons and ammunition. Over the past few years, the UN has been pushing one treaty that will help to accomplish that goal. It is the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

The UN Arms Trade Treaty is a treaty that would regulate the international sale and transfer of all conventional weapons throughout the world. Conventional weapons are sea and land mines, rockets, missiles, cluster munitions, non-nuclear bombs, shells, small arms and light weapons. By small arms, they mean handguns, rifles and shotguns of all kinds, regardless of their use or design.

Both Secretary of State John Kerry and President Barack Obama fully supported the Arms Trade Treaty and now are looking to the US Senate to ratify the treaty. At this time, it does not appear that there is enough support in the Senate to muster up 67 out of 100 votes that is required to ratify any international treaty.

As horrific and irresponsible the omnibus spending bill is, the Senate saw to place one provision in it that forbids any funding be used for the implementation of the UN Arms Trade Treaty without the Senate first ratifying the treaty.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) stated that they purposely placed Section 7075 in the omnibus bill because President Obama and his administration can’t be trusted to try to bypass Senate ratification like he does with so many other pieces of legislation. 

He said that the Senate has repeatedly warned the president against any negotiations with the United Nations without first consulting with the Senate.

He further told the press after they passed the omnibus spending bill: "One might expect the President to pay little or no attention to Republican senators, but a significant number of Republican and Democrat - more than 50 - senators, on numerous occasions, by letter and by vote, have told the President not to negotiate an Arms Trade Treaty and not to expect the Senate to ratify,"

"The sad fact is, we have little faith that this administration will not try to implement an Arms Trade Treaty in the absence of ratification."

As often as Obama has violated the US Constitution by bypassing Congress by making, deleting and changes laws on his own without legal authority or approval, we have to wonder now what action Obama will try to take to bypass the required Senate ratification of the UN Arms Trade Treaty.

What illegal actions will Obama use next to force the implementation of the UN’s version of universal gun control?Read the full story here.

Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation.

Gun re-registration begins in D.C., may lead to arrest and confiscation.(WT)

For the first time in the United States, a citizen who has legally registered a gun will have to submit to a renewal process. The consequences of not knowing about this new law or missing the specific 60-day window are dire.

Starting on Jan. 2, every single D.C. resident who has registered a firearm since 1976 must go to police headquarters to pay a $48 fee and be photographed and fingerprinted.

The Metropolitan Police Department estimates there are at least 30,000 registered gun owners.

If the registrant does not go to the police station within three months after a set time frame, the registration is revoked. That citizen is then in possession of an unregistered firearm, which is a felony that carries a maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine and a year in jail.

The gun itself is put into a category of weapons that can never be registered, just as though it were a machine gun or a sawed-off shotgun.

The city has not made clear how it will enforce the law, but the police are in possession of all registrants’ home addresses so confiscation and arrests would be simple.

The police are notifying registrants by mail that they have to come to the station on the set schedule.
Also, the department took out a $550 advertisement in The Washington Times to run on Monday. The required public notice is not being printed in any other newspaper or media outlet.

The three-year expiration date is supposed to uncover if a gun owner does something that makes him suddenly a danger to society, such as committing a felony, becoming a drug addict or being involuntarily committed to a mental hospital.Read the full story here.