Obama's Proposed 2016 Gun Control Executive Orders

[2k05gt]

This week we are going to see 23 Executive Actions by the President.

President Obama has unveiled a plan to address gun violence in the nation. The initiative consists of 23 executive actions and three presidential memoranda.

The plan:
* Requires background checks for all gun sales and strengthens the background check system. This would include removing barriers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act so that states may more freely share information about mental health issues involving potential gun purchasers.
* Provides states with monetary incentives—$20 million in fiscal year FY 2013 and a proposed $50 million in FY 2014—to share information so that records on criminal history and people prohibited from gun ownership due to mental health reasons are more available.
* Bans military-style assault weapons and limits magazines to a capacity of 10 rounds.
* Provides additional tools to law enforcement. The plan proposes a crackdown on gun trafficking by asking Congress to pass legislation that closes “loopholes” in gun trafficking laws and establishes strict penalties for “straw purchasers” who pass a background check and then pass guns on to prohibited people.
* Urges Congress to pass the administration’s $4 billion proposal to keep 15,000 state and local police officers on the street to help deter gun crime.
* Maximizes efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime. The president calls upon the attorney general to work with U.S. attorneys across the country to determine gaps occurring in this area and where supplemental resources are appropriate.
* Provides training for “active shooter” situations to 14,000 law enforcement, first responders and school officials.
* Directs the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a statement to health care providers that they are not prohibited by federal law from reporting threats of violence to the proper authorities.
* Launches a national gun safety campaign to encourage responsible gun ownership and authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission to examine issues relating to gun safety locks.
* Helps schools invest in safety. The president’s plan calls for more school resource officers and counselors in all schools through the Community Oriented Policing Services hiring program. The plan also calls for the federal government to assist schools in developing emergency management plans.
* Improves mental health awareness through enhanced teacher training and referrals for treatment. The plan calls for the training of 5,000 additional mental health professionals nationwide.
* Coverage of mental health treatment under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

Some of this I don't necessarily disagree with, it's just how he goes about doing this.
but come on, we want to keep firearms out of the hands of people who are hell-bent on mass murder, but will any of this really stop gun violence? No
even if they ban AR-15's, AK 47's and any semi-auto rifle and has more than ten round mag there are a quarter billion high capacity mags out there, a criminal
will just get stuff on the black market.

[MarcSpaz]

That is a very old list (notice some of it talks about 20q3 and 14 in a future tense). I'm pretty sure none of that is going to happen. Laws would need to be passed and that can only come from Congress.

[zykur]

Agreed, for a ban of a certain type of rifle Congress would need to vote on this like the 93 ban. There is plenty of things he can try but in their own words they can't cite a single law that would have stopped these mass shootings.

https://youtu.be/-Rn3IDgs_BY

[GregVa]

They already have that new assault weapon ban bill on the slate... as you mentioned I think they have to do it that way and he cant just ban them by EO.

If your interested I am tracking it on this site:

https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr4269-114/show

Need more people to vote no on it on this site. Now it is 4 in favor and 58 opposed

[zykur]

They already have that new assault weapon ban bill on the slate... as you mentioned I think they have to do it that way and he cant just ban them by EO.

If your interested I am tracking it on this site:

https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr4269-114/show

Need more people to vote no on it on this site. Now it is 4 in favor and 58 opposed

With a name like this "To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes." you would swear Democrats have a super majority to try to pass that piece of garbage.

[2k05gt]

They already have that new assault weapon ban bill on the slate... as you mentioned I think they have to do it that way and he cant just ban them by EO.

If your interested I am tracking it on this site:

https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr4269-114/show

Need more people to vote no on it on this site. Now it is 4 in favor and 58 opposed

With a name like this "To regulate assault weapons, to ensure that the right to keep and bear arms is not unlimited, and for other purposes." you would swear Democrats have a super majority to try to pass that piece of garbage.

I urge everyone to get the word out and write your congressman and oppose this bill.
https://www.opencongress.org/bill/hr4269-114/show

I just did it..