The executive order is the president’s following through on a promise he made earlier in the year to seek unilateral solutions on gun control if congress would not act.
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President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to finalize a package of executive decrees that could make it harder for private citizens to purchase guns from their family or neighbor and could include other provisions that would deny gun ownership to law abiding Americans. But gun control advocates are expecting the new actions to be revealed next week, ahead of Obama’s annual State of the Union address, set for January 12.
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Obama says in his weekly radio address that he gets many letters from parents, teachers and children about gun violence. Gun violence, which, by the way, primarily occurs in America’s predominantly Democrat Party-controlled major cities.
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“I think we will have a strong Democratic nominee”, Obama said. “And we are still seeing one mass shooter after another passing background checks and LEGALLY stockpiling guns despite obvious red flags in their background indicating [a] history of violence”.
“The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone”, Obama said.
Obama recently directed staff at the White House to look into potential executive actions, such as expanding background checks. The president might approve a rule that would require dealers who exceed a certain number of gun sales each year to obtain a license from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and also check the background of buyers.
“That is why he has asked his team to scrub existing legal authorities to see if there’s any additional action we can take administratively”, Schultz said.
The loophole allegedly allows criminals to circumvent background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.
But the right of the people to bear arms is expressly protected by the Second Amendment.
Each year, more than 32,000 people die as a effect of gun-related violence, suicides, and accidents in the United States, which is by far the highest among industrialized countries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Obama recently met with the group Everytown for Gun Safety, who recommended creating a test for assessing who must be licensed to sell guns.
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The administration has overseen a striking drop in prosecutions of gun crimes, winning only about 6,000 convictions in 2015 – down more than 15 percent from five years ago, and giving added weight to claims by gun rights groups that President Obama has failed to enforce the laws already on the books.
