In this photo made with a fisheye lens, customers line up at the gun counter at Duke's Sport Shop on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in New Castle, Pa. President Barack Obama is expected to announce measures Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, on a broad effort to reduce gun violence that will include proposed bans on military-style assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines as well as more than a dozen executive orders aimed at circumventing congressional opposition to stricter gun control. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
The package includes a call on Congress to ban military-style assault weapons and high-capacity magazine and it would close loopholes in the gun sale background check system.
Obama also is signing 23 executive actions — which require no congressional approval — including several aimed at improving access to data for background checks. A presidential memorandum will instruct the Centers for Disease Control to research causes and prevention of gun violence.
In addition, Obama will nominate Todd Jones as director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Jones currently is the acting director of the agency.
This is a list of the executive orders:
1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
11. Nominate an ATF director.
12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
imoverit: The post was a response to you.
-Tell Oblamer that we will vote yes to his entire gun program, on its face, if he will find a way to fix his whole budget, to allow for the $500 million to be funded (along with the rest of his spending plans- to include his beloved "ever-increasing" cost of the Obamacare) without having to raise taxes anymore OR raise the spending limit...
YOU KNOW it would never happen, then...
Semi-auto firearms have been in civilian hands for over a century. Nothing new or particularly dangerous about them.
If you don't feel these guns need to be in civilian hands then you have control over keeping them out of YOUR civilian hands. Don't buy one. If I choose to own one, that's my business and mine alone. So says the Second Amendment, which exists to protect free citizens against the tyranny of an out of control government.
You and people with your view of Obuma s Agenda, is the problem..If he gets wish on AR 15s and the expanded mags,then he will go after the handguns,and revolvers..Just like Hitler...
This is bad law. It is done cynically to pit urban city voters against rural voters to help dems in 2014 in the house and senate races. When politicians of both sides act it is never for our interest. It is either to capture our votes or our money, and usually both. Our politicians are the organized crime of the 21st century. The mafia has nothing on them.
In 2011-12, this President’s administration eliminated funding from two Justice Department programs ($200 million) that gave money to schools for training, security equipment and police resources. A separate program ($800 million) to put police officers inside schools was ended a few years earlier. This President’s administration also eliminated in 2011-2012 a separate Education Department program that gave money to schools to prepare for mass tragedies. All this before the tragedy in CT.