U.S. President Barack Obama is heading back to Washington from his holiday vacation, looking immediately to impose new controls on gun sales.
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The prime-time speech will give the president another chance to try to reassure the public about his national security stewardship after the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
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President Obama will press ahead with a set of executive actions on guns next week despite growing concerns in the United States over terrorism that have dampened some Americans’ enthusiasm for tighter firearms restrictions.
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The positive outcomes from those orders are hard to quantify, even for White House allies.
Obama says he will meet with the attorney general on Monday to talk about what action he can take to tighten gun controls irrespective of Congress. And on Friday, he’ll mark the fifth anniversary of the 2011 Tuscon shooting that killed six and wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who has since left Congress to found a gun control lobbying group that met with Obama personally last month.
“He can’t do that”, the GOP presidential front-runner said.
A bipartisan effort in 2013 to bolster gun control measures after the Newtown shooting was halted in the Senate, failing to garner the 60 votes needed to expand background checks and ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
In his weekly recorded address, he said: ‘My New Year’s resolution is to move forward on our unfinished business… our epidemic of gun violence’.
The other part is that his public proposals for gun control in the wake of recent shootings have all been non-sequiturs.
But Mr Obama told Americans that he had received too many letters from parents, and teachers, and children, to sit around and do nothing.
“We know that we can’t stop every act of violence”, Obama said. Executive actions-or even the specter of executive actions-often have put more firearms in circulation, because gun sales climb amid fears the administration will find a way to limit them.
Conservatives, lawmakers and gun advocates are mounting a defiant opposition to Mr. Obama’s plans to order expanded background checks for gun buyers. Currently, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is only required to investigate a gun theft if 10 or more guns are stolen and one of them is used in a crime. Also under discussion may be measures to prevent convicted abusers from owning guns and instructing federal law enforcement to arrest criminals who attempt to buy illegal guns.
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Bush suggested that he didn’t object in principle to keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, but that he is wary of how far-reaching and burdensome the proposed changes might be on small-scale gun sellers.
