Everyone knows that President Obama is strongly against our rights to own firearms. He’s never made that a secret and has worked hard to do everything in his power to take our guns away from us.

Unfortunately for him and fortunately for us, all his actions have succeeded in doing, to date, is to increase the number of privately owned firearms in the country. But this time, damage has already been done, and it’s not over yet.

It seemed like Obama’s plans to take away our 2nd Amendment rights were finally put to an end with the 2014 midterm elections. With both houses of Congress firmly in the hands of the Republicans, almost all of whom supported our rights to bear arms, Obama was going to have a hard time going forward with any sort of plans to take away our rights.

But, as he’s said himself, Obama has a pen and a phone and he is not afraid to use either one of them.

It seems that the only laws he holds in high regard are the ones that he pushed through the Democrat controlled Congress, back when he first started out.

Other than that, he’s been ignoring whatever laws he chooses and illegally creating new laws by executive fiat.

The other way that Obama is creating laws that he wants is through regulations. The various departments of the government create regulations to define how different laws which are passed by Congress will be enforced. Many times these regulations deal with such mundane issues as what government red tape one has to fight their way through; but sometimes, the regulations change the meaning of the law, making things tougher than intended. Obama’s administration has used this loophole to great effect.

Theoretically, Congress has a right to deny those regulations, but that rarely happens. So, what some nameless bureaucrat writes in some hidden office, ends up having as much power as a law passed by Congress.

Up until now, the Republicans have had little success in putting a stop to Obama’s illegal actions. There is still hope that they will be able to, but that will require the Republicans taking some bold action and standing their ground, forcing Obama to capitulate for a change. I’m not sure that we’ll see that happen.

Surprisingly enough, Obama’s latest attack against firearm ownership is perfectly legal. All he’s doing is redefining something under an existing law.

In other words, he’s given orders to a department of the government to modify a regulation, making something that was previously legal, illegal.

To my mind, this is changing the law, something that only Congress is supposed to be able to do. But I assure you, this time Obama is within the limits of what the law allows him to do.

However, we should still be concerned, because it is a direct attack against our 2nd Amendment rights, one that uses an unconstitutional law as its basis, but that law has been on the books since 1968.