[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 9]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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             PRESIDENT OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE OVERREACH ON GUNS

  (Mr. BABIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, President Obama is up to it again with his 
pen and phone. This time he is undermining the Second Amendment rights 
of American citizens through executive order.
  President Obama's disdain for gun owners has been clear from the 
beginning. This is another sad chapter in his Presidency. It is a shame 
the President would exploit the latest act of terrorism in this manner.
  The murders of Americans in San Bernardino were due to a radical 
Islamic ideology, an ideology that this President will not even 
acknowledge, though these people have declared war upon us, and nothing 
this President is doing through his unilateral action will address 
that. It will only serve to hurt law-abiding American citizens. 
President Obama is shooting at the wrong target.
  We are a constitutional republic. The President cannot simply bypass 
Congress when his ill-advised initiatives are rejected. The President 
should join Congress in focusing on the growing threat of terrorism 
rather than making it easier to disarm law-abiding American citizens. 
We should do all in our power to stop this unconstitutional executive 
action and overreach.

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