Jennifer Baker, a spokeswoman for the NRA’s legislative arm, said that in terms of redefining who needs to obtain a federal license to sell guns, “the administration is simply restating the current law with the intent to chill lawful behaviour by scaring law-abiding citizens who are hobbyists and collectors”. An October Gallup poll found 86 percent of Americans favored “a law which would require universal background checks for all gun purchases in the U.S”. I’m not going to wait for a lawsuit.
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“This is not a plot to take away everybody’s guns”, Obama said in a ceremony in the East Room.
“People always panic. No president can make law”.
After the Christmas season, store shelves are empty of small, personal protection handguns. Some of the measures would require approval of the Republican-controlled Congress to be funded. “Today, the Administration took action to ensure that anyone who is “engaged in the business” of selling firearms is licensed and conducts background checks on their customers”, said part of a “Fact Sheet” memo released by the White House on Monday.
In 2015, 885,086 checks were done, topping a high mark in 2013, when the agency did 869,560 checks.
“It is a wrong course by the president to use executive action when there are legitimate avenues to address the issues of violent crime”, Wilson said in a statement.
“But I just feel President Obama should act through Congress. I feel he’s sidestepping the way our government is meant to be run by doing all of these executive orders”, Kucinic said.
“I will not mention them, but I promise you I have spoken to three of the presidential potential nominees on the Republican side who tell me, Joe, it’s insane – this is absolutely insane”, he said.
Currently, 1.4 million of Florida’s 20 million residents have a concealed weapons permit.
Other new steps include 230 new examiners the Federal Bureau of Investigation will hire to process background checks, aiming to prevent delays that enabled the accused gunman in Charleston, South Carolina, to get a gun when the government took too long. He wonders how they will be funded and that background checks are already in place. Because there was no existing depository of such records, state lawmakers only required that mental health reports be submitted to NICS at the time the determination was made.
Cathy Barefoot and her husband George own Noshoe Firearms in Crawfordville.
Is an executive order the best solution?
The preceding article summarizes research or news from periodicals or related source material in the fields of mental health and psychology. Stopping both is going to be tough, she conceded. “I think it’s disgusting what he’s done”, Irvine said. “We have to do something within our community”, she said.
Millions of guns trade hands illegally under the table every year, said Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice professor Dan Mears.
Those who make their living off gun sales say Obama’s plan creates more legal tape without any extra security.
He believes the “absolute random” nature of the San Bernardino massacre is what freaked people out and drove them to buy guns for self-protection. That’s why Mr. Obama had no choice except to do what he could by executive action.
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Referring to the recent cooperation shown by Republican Congressional leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan on the Omnibus budget bill and Import-Export bank, Representative Castro was optimistic that Republicans could support new proposals for gun control.
