He said would meet with U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to finalize a series of new measures that will be unveiled next week.
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“The gun lobby is loud and well organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone”, Obama said in his weekly radio address.
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“Change, as always, is going to take all of us”, the president said Friday.
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Yesterday pro-gun lobby group, the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, released a new year video attacking gun control plans.
Described as “imminent”, the set of executive actions would fulfill a promise by the President to take further unilateral steps the White House says could help curb gun deaths.
“The fact is, the President’s gun control agenda will only make it harder for law-abiding citizens to exercise their right to self-defense”, NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker.
“Last month, we remembered the third anniversary of Newtown”, Obama said in his address, referring to a December 2012 mass shooting at a CT elementary school that left 20 young children and six adults dead.
Obama has repeatedly called for Congress to tighten gun laws, following a string of mass shootings in recent years.
“Three years ago, a bipartisan, commonsense bill would have required background checks for virtually everyone who buys a gun”, he said in the address.
“But what if we attempted to stop even one?” According to a July Pew Research Center, 85 percent favor such policies, and the sentiment crosses political and ideological lines: 79 percent of Republicans, 88 percent of Democrats and 82 percent of those who say they prioritize the protection of gun rights over controlling gun ownership also favor background checks for private sales.
The majority of Americans support the idea of background checks for gun shows and private sales.
Following weeks of discussions with officials and legal advisers about how he could use his executive powers to circumvent the Republican-controlled Congress, Mr Obama will on Monday sit down with his top law officer to see how he can make it harder for “a unsafe few” to get their hands on guns. “What if Congress did one thing – something – to guard our youngsters from gun violence?”
“Since then tens of thousands of our fellow Americans have been mowed down by gun violence”.
Thousands of guns are sold yearly by dealers who fall between licensed dealers and occasional sellers who do not need a licence.
Doug Andres, a spokesman for House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in an email that the White House “has not communicated with us, and we have not been briefed”.
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Federal law requires that those who are “engaged in the business” of dealing in firearms to have a federal licence – and, therefore, to conduct background checks of potential buyers.
