{"id":4964,"date":"2010-12-18T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T15:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2010\/12\/18\/rahm-and-andrew-traver\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:12:42","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:12:42","slug":"rahm-and-andrew-traver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Rahm and Andrew Traver"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:18111,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/batfe-and-proposed-two-day-long-arms.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251211145455\\\/https:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/batfe-and-proposed-two-day-long-arms.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 18:28:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-26 09:39:12&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 21:21:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-29 21:21:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:18471,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/content\\\/story\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/16\\\/ST2010121606931.html?sid=ST2010121606931&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190809173832\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/content\\\/story\\\/2010\\\/12\\\/16\\\/ST2010121606931.html?sid=ST2010121606931&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 22:24:41&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 22:26:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-27 22:26:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/batfe-and-proposed-two-day-long-arms.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a story in the Washington Post<\/a> that I linked to yesterday about the BATFE&#8217;s proposal to require reporting of multiple purchases of certain rifles was a little tidbit about who pushed the nomination of Andrew Traver in the Obama Whitehouse. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/story\/2010\/12\/16\/ST2010121606931.html?sid=ST2010121606931\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turns out it was Rahm Emanuel<\/a> according to Ben LaBolt who is a spokesman for Emanuel&#8217;s mayoral campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LaBolt said that<b> Emanuel recommended Andy Traver of Chicago to be nominated by Obama to be director of the ATF<\/b> and was the &#8220;point man&#8221; in the Clinton administration when Congress passed an assault weapons ban and required background checks for gun sales. Clinton later blamed those bills for the GOP takeover of Congress in 1995. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The plot thickens.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a story in the Washington Post that I linked to yesterday about the BATFE&#8217;s proposal to require reporting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2906],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-andrew-traver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6052,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/6052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}