'Assault weapons' ban jewel in Obama crown

January 27, 6:47 AMGun Rights ExaminerDavid Codrea

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We've been exploring President Obama's designs on our guns--the ones he and his apologists in the Democrat party and media say he doesn't want to take away.

To do this, we've looked at the words from his own "Urban Policy," as stated on the White House website. Note that contrary to assurances, such policies will apply whether one lives in Chicago or Cheyenne.

We've explored what repealing the Tiahrt amendment is really about.

We've seen that "commonsense" has a very different meaning when talking about passing laws to prohibit prohibited people from having guns. That's not a typo.

We've discussed closing a nonexistent "loophole," and recognized the proposal to do so for what it really is.

And we've talked about the children, and about a proposed safeguard that may not be as smart as its made out to be.

Come we now to the jewel in the crown, the centerpiece of Obama's gun policy, a valued prize for gunhaters everywhere, and what they certainly see as saving the best for last (at least in this term):

They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent.

Well, what's wrong with that, I can hear some asking? You don't need weapons of war to hunt deer!

We'll get to that in another installment of this series. Except it does raise an interesting point.

You see, something is missing from the White House version of Obama's "Urban Policy." Something has been taken out. On purpose.

Several months back, when I'd submitted my draft of "Hope and Change" to Guns Magazine, Obama had a different website, Change.gov. What he said about "assault weapons" there had another statement he apparently felt expedient to edit out as election day neared:

"They also support making the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban permanent, as such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.” [Emphasis added]

Interesting. Add that to presenting a nationwide permanent ban as an "Urban policy," and presenting it further as the way to "Address Gun Violence in Cities," realize that in spite of this it will apply to all Americans everywhere, and you start to wonder why the guy feels compelled to misrepresent, to misdirect, to omit...

And why anyone who does so as a matter of official policy wants to ban our guns...