Biden to Use Executive Action to Secure Gun Control Congress Won’t Pass

[Anti Federalist]

Biden to Use Executive Action to Secure Gun Control Congress Won’t Pass

Biden to Use Executive Action to Secure Gun Control Congress Won’t Pass

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amend...ion-to-secure-gun-control-congress-wont-pass/

AWR HAWKINS 14 Mar 2023

President Joe Biden plans to use an executive order Tuesday to move the country closer to universal background checks and other controls that Congress has refused to pass.

The Hill reported the order will address a category of gun sellers “who do not realize they are required to run background checks under existing law, or who are willfully violating existing law, become compliant with background check requirements.” This will move the U.S. closer to the universal background check system that Democrats have wanted, but which Congress as a whole has refused to pass.

The order will also direct members of his Cabinet to work with local law enforcement, members of the health care community, and others, to increase the use of “red flag laws.” Such laws allow guns to be seized from gun owners via a judge’s order.

Forbes notes the executive order “also directs the attorney general to develop a plan to prevent firearms dealers whose federal licenses have been revoked from continuing to sell guns.”

Moreover, the order also calls for the “[modernization] of the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, which is set to expire in December, to make it harder for firearms to be made that can evade metal detectors.” This portion of the order is directed at that category of firearms that are 3-D printed; firearms which Democrats refer to as “ghost guns.”

He will also ask the Federal Trade Commission to investigate methods by which the gun industry allegedly markets to minors.

Biden will sign his executive order Tuesday in Monterey Park, California, the location of a January 21, 2023, shooting in which a 72-year-old attacker used a pistol to kill 11 people.

On April 8, 2021, Biden issued executive gun controls during a Rose Garden speech and those resulted in the ATF’s frame/receiver rule, which describes an unfinished pistol frame or rifle lower as a firearm.

 

[A Son of Liberty]

Biden to Use Executive Action to Secure Gun Control Congress Won’t Pass

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amend...ion-to-secure-gun-control-congress-wont-pass/

AWR HAWKINS 14 Mar 2023

President Joe Biden plans to use an executive order Tuesday to move the country closer to universal background checks and other controls that Congress has refused to pass.

The Hill reported the order will address a category of gun sellers “who do not realize they are required to run background checks under existing law, or who are willfully violating existing law, become compliant

 

[cjm]

Need to get that 3D printer this year.

 

[Voluntarist]

Done!

Biden issues order to strengthen gun background checks

President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Tuesday aiming to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote more secure firearms storage and ensure U.S. law enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.

The Democratic president was set to address his latest efforts to curb gun violence in a speech from Monterey Park, California. In January, a gunman stormed a dance hall in the community near Los Angeles and shot 20 people, killing 11, following a Lunar New Year celebration. He’s also scheduled to meet with families of the victims and first responders from that day.

Biden’s rhetoric has only grown stronger around guns — he routinely calls for banning so-called assault weapons in his speeches — and Democrats didn’t push such a vocal gun-control platform even during the Obama administration, when Biden was vice president. But Biden has been emboldened by the midterms after his regular talk of gun control didn’t result in massive losses, and he’s expected to continue to push for strong changes as he inches toward a 2024 run, his aides say.
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Tuesday’s action does not change U.S. government policy. Rather, it directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures — a typical feature of executive orders issued by presidents when they confront the limits of their own power to act without cooperation from Congress.

Biden, in the order, acknowledged Congress’ opposition, but said, “In the meantime, my Administration will continue to do all that we can, within existing authority, to make our communities safer.”

The order directs the Cabinet to work on a plan to better structure the government to support communities suffering from gun violence. The plan calls on Attorney General Merrick Garland to shore up the rules for federally licensed gun dealers so they know they are required to do background checks as part of the license.

Biden is also mandating better reporting of ballistics data from federal law enforcement for a clearinghouse that allows federal, state and local law enforcement to match shell casings to guns. But local and state law enforcement agencies are not required to report ballistics data, and many do not, making the clearinghouse less effective.

And the president is asking the Federal Trade Commission to issue a public report analyzing how gun manufacturers market to minors and use military images to market to the general public.

The bill passed last year, known as the Safer Communities Act, is viewed by gun control advocates as a good start but one that doesn’t go far enough. After the law was signed, there were 11 other mass shootings, according to a database of mass killings since 2006 maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. Those killings don’t include shootings in which fewer than four people were killed — and gun violence is also rising nationwide.