Almost at the same moment president Barack Obama’s gun control policies were being ripped on CNN, the Second Amendment Foundation launched a national media campaign to fight his executive action on gun control.
The centerpiece was a scathing 60-second video advertisement that appeared on Fox News, Newsmax TV and The Blaze networks.
“President Obama is exercising another power grab,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “and it is a direct assault against Second Amendment rights.”
Critics of the president’s executive action on guns, which immediately came under fire from Second Amendment advocates and members of Congress, argued that he lacks constitutional authority to impose such mandates, and he cannot nullify the will of Congress, which passed existing statutes governing firearms commerce and licensing requirements for dealers.
“The president has failed to push his gun control agenda through Congress,” Gottlieb noted, “so he decided to try to bypass Capitol Hill, and the Constitution, with executive orders. He has failed at that before and now is the chance for the American people to make sure he fails again.
“The Second Amendment is not up for grabs, nor is it subject to the whims of a president who would turn gun collectors and hobbyists into criminals, use the Social Security Administration to strip gun rights from the nation’s senior citizens, or transform the National Instant Check System into a gun registration scheme,” he warned.
“We will educate the public,” Gottlieb said, “so people understand the threat that an Obama executive order poses to the Constitution. We intend to take any legal action necessary, including a lawsuit, to stop Obama’s unconstitutional actions against gun rights. Nobody elected Barack Obama as emperor, but his actions lately suggests he believes otherwise. If he has forgotten there are three branches of government, we intend to refresh his memory.”
