U.S. President Barack Obama today issued the following 23 executive actions on guns:
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.
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13 comments
Wait. He’s not sending the Feds door to door raiding our gun canbinets? …but march to DC anyway…
I still think Texas still wants to succeed just for the hell of it.
Succeed, secede, suck seed, whatever.
For this, the NRA and BigT are up in arms?
It’s all about the optics. Obama looks presidential and the reactionaries look stupid.
They’s comin’ ta take mah…wait a sec…they’re going to issue some reports?
I guess I can get a good price for this ammo I’ve been hoarding…
It is only the start.
They are waiting for the next nut to shoot up something and then tighten it up.
precisely
That’s correct Kenney boy. How would you react if your child or family member was one of TWENTY SIX murdered in Connecticut by these type of guns.
These sound like reasonable actions. Certainly nothing worth marching on Washington about.
Why does my doctor need to know if I have a gun in my house? That has nothing to do with my health.
There is no compulsion to answer, if your doctor should ask.
The only reason this was mentioned in the Executive Orders was because the NRA’s lackeys tried to ban asking such a question.
Fact check…NO AR-15 was used in the shooting…check closer………..