On Trump's Ban on Immigrants from Muslim Countries

The headlines are out. These from DRUDGE:

REFUGEES BLOCKED FROM USA

Prevented From Boarding Flights...
Iranian Filmmaker Barred From Oscars...
Ban includes green card holders...
Expands power of immigration officers...

We've spoken on the GATHERING STORM RADIO SHOW on many an occasion of the need someday for a ban on Muslim organizations and certain Muslim age groups in response to a rampant series of jihadi attacks in this country.

We pointed out that such outright bans and even internments would lead to a constitutional crises - our rights vs our security. With Trump's recent EO on immigration, we are beginning to get a taste of that conflict as referenced in the above headlines.

I personally expected that bans would take effect after a short delay to have the comings and goings of those banned groups to settle out.

It didn't. The EO took effect immediately. I have mixed feelings on this. 

This will cause opposition to Trump and sauce for the liberal goose at the least, and a signal to those countries signaled out as a fair warning for the most.

I hope his EO will sort it out and not end up throwing the baby our with the bath water.

Obama to ban bullets by executive action, threatens top-selling AR-15 rifle

From the Washington Examiner:

As promised, President Obama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. 

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president. 

Wednesday night, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stepped in with a critical letter to the bureau demanding it explain the surprise and abrupt bullet ban.  

The National Rifle Association, which is working with Goodlatte to gather co-signers, told Secrets that 30 House members have already co-signed the letter and Goodlatte and the NRA are hoping to get a total of 100 fast. 

"The Obama administration was unable to ban America's most popular sporting rifle through the legislative process, so now it's trying to ban commonly owned and used ammunition through regulation," said Chris W. Cox, executive director of the NRA-ILA, the group's policy and lobby shop. 

"The NRA and our tens of millions of supporters across the country will fight to stop President Obama's latest attack on our Second Amendment freedoms."