Joe Biden: White House eying 19 executive actions on guns
The White House has identified 19 executive actions for President Barack Obama to move unilaterally on gun control, Vice President Joe Biden told a group of House Democrats on Monday, the administration’s first definitive statements about its response to last month’s mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
Later this week, Obama will formally announce his proposals to reduce gun violence, which are expected to include renewal of the assault weapons ban, universal background checks and prohibition of high-capacity magazine clips. But Biden, who has been leading Obama’s task force on the response, spent two hours briefing a small group of sympathetic House Democrats on the road ahead in the latest White House outreach to invested groups.
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The focus on executive orders is the result of the White House and other Democrats acknowledging the political difficulty of enacting any new gun legislation, a topic Biden did not address in Monday’s meeting.
The executive actions could include giving the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authority to conduct national research on guns, more aggressive enforcement of existing gun laws and pushing for wider sharing of existing gun databases among federal and state agencies, members of Congress in the meeting said.
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“It was all focusing on enforcing existing law, administering things like improving the background database, things like that that do not involve a change in the law but enforcing and making sure that the present law is administered as well as possible,” said Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.).
The White House declined to comment on the details of what Obama will propose.
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But Biden did indicate that the remains of the Obama campaign apparatus may be activated in the effort.
“He said that this has been a real focus on the policy and that the politics of this issue, that a strategy on the politics of the issue hasn’t been undertaken yet,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) told POLITICO. “He did remind us that the campaign infrastructure is still accessible.”
Biden did not address two of the more significant issues in the gun debate: the appointment of a permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the role violent images in the entertainment industry play in the nation’s gun violence.
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Read all 1538 comments in our forumI didn't think you could come up with 19 ... Wow ...
PARANOID LOON OBAMA is dancing on the graves of Sandy Hook's children pushing and trying to pass his Communist gun grabbing agenda. Obama refuses to talk with the pharmaceutical drug companies that made the drugs that Adam Lanza and Jared Lee Loughner were taking for their mental illnesses. Obama refuses to admit that gun-free zones attract the criminally insane cowards that seek the unprotected to murder.
The UN's possible. . . . . "GUNS/ARMS TRAFFICING LAW TREATY" coming 18-28 march NYC sounds similar to Obama's possible . . . . . "GUNS/ARMS TRAFFICING LAW EXECUTIVE ORDER".
These aren't executive orders but sensible measures we can take:
1. Ban military-style assault weapons.
2. Ban high-capacity magazine clips.
3. Universal background checks by licensed arms dealer for all gun transfers, including gun shows and private transactions.
4. Unique identifying stamp on all bullets fired by a gun.
5. Require immediate reporting of stolen guns.
6. Hold registered owner liable for any crimes committed with gun registered in their name.
7. Limit gun purchases to 1 a month.
8. Ban online purchase of ammunition.
Ban anything you like.
ENFORCING those bans . . .well, that's going to be a different story . . .
TT wrote: " 1. Ban military-style assault weapons."
Other than their scary looks, how are these different from the guns you're not terrified of?
LLH wrote: "You're a disgrace and a disgusting human being."
He's not the one dancing on the graves of children to get convince the weak-minded that any of these ideas will do anything to make children safer. That would be YOUR elite who are doing that.
The speed with which they can massacre a room full of 1st graders.
Why do we send our soldiers into battle with assault rifles instead of revolvers?
I hope one of those 19 EOs includes declaring the NRA a terrorist organization. That is really all that's needed to put them away for good. Just imagine Wayne Lapierre playing soccer with the Taliban down at Guantanamo. Priceless! Maybe they can teach him how to make a suicide bomber vest and demo it to his NRA compadres. LOL...
@AngelEyez I agree entirely with your statements and sentiments.
Talk with the drug companies? What would he have to say to the drug companies? Did they do something wrong? The shooter most likely DID NOT take his meds. Which reminds me to remind you to make sure you take yours.
Straw purchases are already illegal and have been a major campaign of Second Amendment groups "don't buy for the other guy" has been around for years. As for Obama's actions, looks like Drudge had it right a few days ago. Scary what the left will support, I wonder if they'd be so enthusiastic about unilateral action and the Executive branch creating laws with no regard for the rest of the government if GWB were still in office?
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Send out Biden to make a fool of himself - Yep, folks that is the Chicago way of doing corruption.
The media got suckered in and is playing up like a kindergarten Orchestra. Why doesn't our media become FLAMING outraged over this gross ursurpation of power!
Obama is a loser and shows his arrogance more and more - but our compliant media smiles, bows and genuflects!
I got as far as "PARANOID LOON OBAMA..." and quit reading.
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We'll be coming round the corner for your guns,
We'll be coming round the corner for your guns,
We'll be coming round corner,
We'll be coming round the corner,
We'll be coming round the corner for your guns,
I buy a gun. I drive down the street. I sell the gun. Police officer stops me. I say, "I changed my mind, decided to sell it." What does the officer charge me with?
None of the elected representatives will step forward and will take the battle to the route cause.
LEGISLATION THAT WOULD MANDATE THE DEATH PENALTY FOR FELONIES COMMITTED WITH A FIREARM. (PERIOD), No appeals/ No Deals/ No Mental Illiness Defense/ Sentence carried out within 30 days.
ROPE IS CHEAP....USE IT.
Let's see the Beltway Bunch get real.... Mr Jefferson & Mr. Madison wrote the Constitution and had the forethought to use it to protect US from the Government...".the rights of the citizens shall not be infringed"
Everything else is just the Marxist Democratic Liberals show their Colors.....
Your Humble Servant...Old Rusty
TT wrote: "The speed with which they can massacre a room full of 1st graders."
Yeah, that's almost as fast as you can do it with a gas can and a highway flare.
So, you want to outlaw ALL repeating guns, semi-autos, revolvers, lever actions, pump actions . . ?
Yes or no.
Truthteller09 wrote:
"The speed with which they can massacre a room full of 1st graders."
A pump shotgun can work just as fast...since it doesn't have to be aimed, and the wide shot pattern.
The Columbine shooters used shotguns and 9mm handguns...because "assault weapons" were banned at the time.
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