As we review the current media report for President Obama’s intentions, regarding executive office restrictions on firearms, we must remember the second term distinction between “executive orders” and “executive action“.
♦ Executive orders are those dictatorial fiats from the White House that contain an origin, at least as regarded by the Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), founded in law.
♦ “Executive actions” are the term-two preferences of President Obama and constitute dictatorial fiats that are not constitutionally based, not legal, not supported by the OLC, and will not eventually hold up under legal challenge. The key word is “eventually”.


The Obama “executive actions” are political decisions intentionally constructed and designed to advance an ideology while creating legal conflict. They successfully advance ‘change’ until they are overruled by state and federal courts.
An example of an “executive action” was the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA, amnesty program Obama rolled out in November of 2014. DAPA was an Executive Action, not an Executive Order.
Executive Actions open barn doors. They are never designed/intended to pass legal challenge. They create mostly irreversible consequences.
To the best of our knowledge the entire MSM and professional punditry have yet to recognize the strategic and intentional use of executive action – and explain it to everyone. (more…)