Barry Obama Lies About Guns, Likely to Lie About Other Things, Too!

None are safe...from gun grabbing politicians!

Barack Obama's position paper on gun control shows some glaring holes in his honesty, judgment and understanding of Constitutional law. He begins:

Tens of millions of Americans hunt and fish. Millions more participate in a variety of shooting sports such as sporting clays, skeet, and target ad trap shooting that may not necessarily involve hunting. Barack Obama deeply respects America’s hunters and sportsmen, and he is committed to protecting their rights.

RESPECT FOR RESPONSIBLE GUN OWNERSHIP
Respect the Second Amendment: As a former constitutional law professor, Obama understands and believes in the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms. While he believes that guns must be kept from criminals, the mentally incompetent, and others who may pose a threat, he also believes that the rights of legitimate
hunters and other law-abiding Americans should be protected, including the right to purchase, own, transport, and use guns for the purposes of hunting and target shooting.

Anyone notice anything missing from the above "constitutional law professor's enumerated rights? Anyone?
Beuller? Beuller? That's right! Nowhere does he mention the constitutional right to self defense!
Firearms are good for more than just hunting and target shooting! Curious that he wouldn't mention it!

As a long-time resident and elected official of Chicago, Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic
weapons in the hands of criminals. Thus, Senator Obama supports making permanent the expired federal
Assault Weapon Ban. These weapons, such as AK-47s, belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets.
These are also not weapons that are used by hunters and sportsmen.

Here's where he leaves the realm of truth and reality: "Barack Obama has seen the impact of fully automatic
weapons in the hands of criminals". Fully automatic weapons? Oh, really? I doubt it.

One: Fully automatic weapons are used in a tiny fraction of a percentage of crimes.
Most so called "automatic" weapons are semi-automatic...very similar to the sporting rifles that Obama claims would be safe from his gun grabbing.
Two: The expired federal "Assault" Weapon Ban does not deal with fully automatic weapons at all! Not. At. All.
Three: Fully automatic weapons are covered by an entirely different law, are already illegal unless the owner possesses a special (and expensive) Federal Firearms license.
Four: I would venture to guess that most AK-47s owned in the United States are owned by sportsmen and used for target practice and/or home defense. Like Obama's vaunted "change", just because he says it, doesn't make it so!

Can you say: "Smoke and mirrors"?

Hat tip John Lott
Cross Posted at Say Anything

Update: Stephen Chaitman of Chi*Town Daily News writes:

But a review of federal firearms statistics suggests the number of assault weapons seized from Illinois criminals is not on the rise. Nor is the number of homicides committed with rifles in the nation. And rifles have been responsible on average for 15 percent of officer deaths each of the last six years.

That's all rifles, not just fully automatic ones.

In 2007, 13 percent of Illinois trace requests involved rifles, and 20 machine guns were found. The ATF trace data reports do not indicate how many of the rifles were traced to Chicago.

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) traces all firearms recovered from criminals, not just those used in the commission of a crime. (Though possession itself was undoubtedly a crime.) Unfortunately, without knowing the total number of firearms traced, we don't know what percentage 20 is of the whole, or what percentage it is of the 13 percent of trace requests. I suspect it is quite small.