President Obama just did something to piss off the NRA again. Yeah I know, what's new?

Courtesy of the Houston Chronicle: 

Striving to take action where Congress would not, the Obama administration announced new steps Thursday on gun control, curbing the import of military surplus weapons and proposing to close a little-known loophole that lets felons and others circumvent background checks by registering guns to corporations. 

Four months after a gun control drive collapsed spectacularly in the Senate, President Barack Obama added two more executive actions to a list of 23 steps the White House determined Obama could take on his own to reduce gun violence. With the political world focused on Mideast tensions and looming fiscal battles, the move signaled Obama's intent to show he hasn't lost sight of the cause he took up after 20 first graders and six adults were gunned down last year in an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. 

Vice President Joe Biden, Obama's point-man on gun control after the Newtown tragedy thrust guns into the national spotlight, unveiled the new actions Thursday at the White House. 

"It's simple, it's straightforward, it's common sense," Biden said in the Roosevelt Room. 

One new policy will end a government practice that lets military weapons, sold or donated by the U.S. to allies, be reimported into the U.S. by private entities, where some may end up on the streets. The White House said the U.S. has approved 250,000 of those guns to be reimported since 2005; under the new policy, only museums and a few other entities like the government will be eligible to reimport military-grade firearms. 

The Obama administration is also proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from skirting the law by registering certain guns, like machine guns and short-barreled shotguns, to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those entities, like beneficiaries and trustees, to undergo the same type of fingerprint-based background checks as individuals if they want to register those types of guns.

Keeping at least some of the military style weapons off the streets and stopping from felons from getting their hands on guns, seems reasonable right?

Wrong? Not if you're the NRA.

The National Rifle Association dismissed the administration's moves as misdirected, arguing that background checks for corporations and a ban on reimporting outdated guns wouldn't keep criminals from getting weapons. 

"The Obama administration has once again completely missed the mark when it comes to stopping violent crime," said NRA spokesman Andrew Arulanandam. "This administration should get serious about prosecuting violent criminals who misuse guns and stop focusing its efforts on law-abiding gun owners."

Does he mean those law abiding felons who are finding loopholes that allow them to have weapons to be used in committing more crimes? Is that who this NRA jerk is referring to?

These people don't care how many innocent lives are killed due to their insistence that every man woman, and child have access to a gun in this country, they simply want to move merchandise.

I swear drug dealers have more compassion then these bastards demonstrate.

I am glad that President Obama is not letting this go. He promised he would do something after Newtown, and it looks like he is doing his best to keep that promise.

Just imagine how much more he could accomplish if the NRA did not own the Republican party.