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By Matt | Contributor | March 16, 2018 10:24AM
Acting FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich testified Wednesday that Barack Obama’s Justice Department directed the FBI to drop more than 500,000 names of fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
For a president who talked so much about gun control, removing half-a-million fugitives from the national background check system is going to increase gun deaths. Remember, Obama, too, spoke of strengthening background checks.
According to the Daily Wire,
Sen. Diane Feinstein had said that “It’s my understanding that under federal law fugitives cannot legally purchase or possess guns. We’ve heard from local law enforcement that the Justice Department has issued a memo that forced the FBI NICS background check database to drop more than 500,000 names of fugitives with outstanding arrest warrants because it was uncertain whether those fugitives had fled across state lines.”
“Mr. Bowdich, can you describe why this determination was made by the Justice Department?” Feinstein asked.
“That was a decision that was made under the previous administration,” Bowdich replied. “It was the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel that reviewed the law and believed that it needed to be interpreted so that if someone was a fugitive in a state, there had to be indications that they had crossed state lines.”
To give some context, the FBI had considered any person with an outstanding arrest warrant to be a fugitive. That was contrary to how the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives defined a fugitive – as someone who has an outstanding arrest warrant and has crossed state lines. Obama’s DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel sided with the ATF’s definition, which resulted in 500,000 fugitives who had not (yet) crossed state lines being dropped from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, allowing them to pass the background check needed to obtain a firearm.
Certainly we can all agree that allowing 500,000 criminals own guns is more dangerous than allowing the other 300+ million Americans to own guns.
Think this is another scandal Obama tried to sweep under the rug? ya TINK?
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31 Comments
March 18, 2018 at 12:17 pm
Obama’s position may seem paradoxical, but was actually quite rational, considering how deeply cynical were Obama’s politics. Obama needed gun violence and a failing system of limited gun controls, as well as the smearing of law enforcement officers as violent racists. Only with those conditions could he considered to pursue outlawing whole classes of firearms and firearm confiscation. His primary purpose was disarming all Americans. Heck, that’s the primary purpose of most Democrats and nearly every Northeastern and Great Lakes Republican.
March 17, 2018 at 11:57 am
The garbage that keeps emerging about the Obama administration never seems to quit coming…and to imagine democrats want us to think he was a great president…
To PoppDavid: Should you have given us a sarcasm warning? It’s not about how many people vote, it’s about who counts the votes. Democrats have controlled and owned voting locations and ballot handling for decades. That included punching chads from too thick stacks of card ballots in Florida.
March 17, 2018 at 10:21 am
Dollars to Donuts they were all Democrat Socialist voters too and o’muzzie needed all the votes
he could scrounge up if he could not “rig” the voting machines in their favor!
March 17, 2018 at 1:24 am
For those who know how to read a calendar, consider this.
Trump was inaugurated January.
Sessions was confirmed the first week of February.
The order that initiated the removal of the 500,000 names came February 20, 2017.
Got that? One month after Trump took over as President, and two weeks after Sessions took over as Attorney General.
March 17, 2018 at 1:07 am
What an EVIL President, lets just hope he has to answer for this very soon.
March 16, 2018 at 9:22 pm
What difference does it make? Sessions isn’t going to do anything. Can’t understand what is wrong with Trump that neither one of them has the stones to arrest this criminal and all the others.
March 16, 2018 at 8:02 pm
As much as I’d love to see Ovomit and the Clintons in prison I know it’ll never happen. Soros too for that matter. And Holder. Incredible how much dislike and disrespect Ovomit has for this country. O B A M A; One Big Assed Mistake America.
March 16, 2018 at 6:22 pm
EVERY decision he made during his EIGHT YEARS of “Anti-American Combat” was on SOMEONE ELSE’S orders! Sorrow’s, ET AL, knew the only two desires HE ever had in his life was to be “RICH & FAMOUS”! We supplied both, but his depraved Puppeteers pulled ALL the strings! He didn’t have the skills to get out of a round room without a map! THEY knew that, and that’s how THEY had control over HIM! He did what he was TOLD to do! Otherwise, he’d be brought down and exposed for the fraud he WAS/is, and will forever be!
March 16, 2018 at 5:41 pm
An American Tragedy.
March 16, 2018 at 4:31 pm
Now this TV show they want to give him, will it be a reality show in an orange suit?
March 16, 2018 at 3:49 pm
Just another indication that Obama hated this country.
March 16, 2018 at 3:39 pm
If they had arrest warrants they should have gone after them. They should go after Obama.
What should be of greater interest is what were their crimes? Were they low level drug dealers? Did they belong primarily to one race? Were they black Muslims etc. Obama is a racist and a bigot we know that because he hid his friendship with Farrakhan. Did this allow them to vote in the election? That’s what racists do they hide their friendships with other racists and accuse men like Trump of having relationships with men like Duke, which he doesn’t. After 8 years of Obama it is hard not to believe the 500,000 criminals were not selected by race on some misguided precepts of socials justice that disguise deep seeded racism. Because social justice is not justice at all it is more often than not an endorsement of criminality.
Frank are you looking over the obvious. This is a clear intension to help the Government to remove our Second Amendment rights. This would help all of the Democrats, and Soros to remove the Democracy Government here in America, and replace with the Socialist Government. Now they can steal anything that you own. It has been discussed that the move I am speaking of. Stealing all of Americans valuables, and placed into the Socialist Government pocket would be about 984 Billion dollars. This is just part of the Picture,. Now the Socialist Party would try to set the world up as 1 Government the New World Order. God Bless Frank.
March 16, 2018 at 2:41 pm
All part of the plan… Let the criminals KILL, then blame THE 2ND Amendment. Use the Zionist press and shills to highlight thugs killing thugs while omitting they were in deed criminals to disarm the 350 MILLION Americans- rendering them SOFT TARGETS for the bloody Bolshevik purge of the “deplorables”. It’s coming.
The Jewish Bolsheviks of Russia, who are emulated by the Zionist here in control of EVERYTHING, used FALSE FLAGS and dirty tricks, like Obama, to fool the white Christians into believing their guns were a problem… Yea, 120+ MILLION tortured and murdered by the CHEKA (now KGB) and it was possible thanks to “gun control”. Ever wonder why you are bombarded by Nazi lies and never the Bolshevik truth on TV, movies, NY SLimes? 3 guesses.
The criminals in power will do as they please because there is NO GOOD GUYS wearing white hats visible for miles.
March 16, 2018 at 2:29 pm
“For a president who talked so much about gun control, removing half-a-million fugitives from the national background check system is going to increase gun deaths. Remember, Obama, too, spoke of strengthening background checks.”
Obama – or whoever the hell he really is – told so many lies how can anyone really expect him to keep track of them all?
With as many unconstitutional and criminal acts as Obama committed, is anyone really surprised at this new discovery…? Especially considering banning guns was high on Obama’s agenda, and promoting gun violence to accelerate their agenda through such ploys as the Fast and Furious scheme were common tactics employed by Obama and his right hand man and fellow con-artist and racist, Eric Holder.
What better way to increase the gun violence rate but to allow criminals to obtain guns because their names were removed from the criminal background check system designed specifically to deny them access to these weapons, legal only to law-abiding citizens and for self-defense (or sporting) purposes…
he broke black and white crimes while in office and was never impeached.. So why now? It is a group of puppets and cons, working for organized crime
March 16, 2018 at 2:01 pm
It is obvious that Obama is a traitor and a solialist communist whose main goal was to cause conflict among the people, to promote racism, to do his best to destroy our constitution and the values of our country. HE NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED , IMPRISONED, AND CHARGED WITH HIGH TREASON AND WHEN FOUND GUILTY SHOT BY FIRING SQUAD
March 16, 2018 at 1:58 pm
So apparently 500,000 bag guys girls are walking the streets of the U.S. and the Democrats want to take the (guns ) means for people to protect themselves away from them. That whole political party needs a slap across the back of the head.
March 16, 2018 at 1:54 pm
And still no charges against any member of the previous administration!
March 16, 2018 at 1:48 pm
I guess Obama was actually serious, when he said on a hot mic: “…I’m the President… I can do anything…”
March 16, 2018 at 1:46 pm
Obama left no legacy….just a ‘rap sheet’….
March 16, 2018 at 1:38 pm
Obama’s entire presidency was a scandal, & he tried to sweep it ALL under the rug!
March 16, 2018 at 1:27 pm
my thoughts are crude, vile, disgusting, but not as much as that evil thing.
March 16, 2018 at 1:26 pm
Overburdened, regulatory lawyering. Clarity through simplification is warranted.
March 16, 2018 at 1:08 pm
obama the American traitor, arrest, convict and execute ASAP !
March 16, 2018 at 1:12 pm
John , agree as long as he is alive he is DANGEROUS.