Obama's 23(!) Firearm Executive Orders

[Philhelm]

http://news.yahoo.com/obamas-23-executive-orders-gun-violence-171540897.html

Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions

Today, the President is announcing that he and the Administration will:

1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.

7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.

8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).

9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

11. Nominate an ATF director.

12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.

13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.

15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities. 18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.

23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.

 

[ghengis86]

thanks for starting this thread. back to the task at hand while we figure out what the hell happened to RPFs

 

[familydog]

Clearly these executive orders will prevent more gun massacres. I feel blessed we have such an intelligent and quick acting president. After all, we wouldn't want those tax cattle he prodded up on stage with him to die before giving milk.

 

[pcosmar]

I see Prohibited Persons.

 

[Philhelm]

To add, he also wants to introduce a bill that would ban assault weapons and limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds. I have no information as to whether a grandfather clause would be incorporated.

 

[helmuth_hubener]

Well, they don't seem to be as bad as they could have been. He hasn't banned any weapons or anything dramatic like that, or even really made any new fiat laws here as far as I can tell. Numbers 3 and 4 come closest to making new law.

I don't understand the background check stuff.

Not trying to be pro-Obama or minimize this dictatorial move, that's just how I read it. Am I missing things (I'm sure I am)? Should I be more alarmed than I am?

 

[ghengis86]

 

[ghengis86]

Well, they don't seem to be as bad as they could have been. He hasn't banned any weapons or anything dramatic like that, or even really made any new fiat laws here as far as I can tell. Numbers 3 and 4 come closest to making new law.

I don't understand the background check stuff.

Not trying to be pro-Obama or minimize this dictatorial move, that's just how I read it. Am I missing things (I'm sure I am)? Should I be more alarmed than I am?

yes and yes.

do you know how many people are currently on - or have ever been perscribed - mind altering drugs in this country? ritalin, prozac, aderol zoloft, ambien, etc. etc. all these people are now subject to prohibition from owning firearms.

it also creates more snitches for the feds (doctors)

it also allows the feds to snoop into your medical records whenever they want

provides for more pigs aka cops

it is pretty bad. not confiscation bad, but they found out from the public response that they were awakening a sleeping giant. they backed off and stayed true to their incremental approach.

 

[mad cow]

Well, they don't seem to be as bad as they could have been. He hasn't banned any weapons or anything dramatic like that, or even really made any new fiat laws here as far as I can tell. Numbers 3 and 4 come closest to making new law.

I don't understand the background check stuff.

Not trying to be pro-Obama or minimize this dictatorial move, that's just how I read it. Am I missing things (I'm sure I am)? Should I be more alarmed than I am?

Talked to a guy tonight about buying 2 guns,we're meeting saturday.Over 4/5ths of my gun purchases have been like this,no paperwork or record,just a cash deal,like buying a used lamp or TV.
The only guns I own that involved a 4473 form were guns where the desire was so great I just had to have them right then and had my resolve been stronger,there would be no record of me ever buying or owning a gun.
This is what Obama wants to outlaw.

 

[sailingaway]

 

[RickyJ]

Mental health? That is BS! They will just label everyone that is known to oppose them a nut and say they can't legally buy a gun.

 

[sailingaway]

Mental health? That is BS! They will just label everyone that is known to oppose them a nut and say they can't legally buy a gun.

I understand the new DM is going to have so many new 'personality disorders' that anyone with a personality at all will be in it. That dovetails nicely with wanting an excuse to ban anyone they feel like banning.

 

[osan]

I think it is time to fashion a waxen doll and get out the needles.

 

[Ranger29860]

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

Wow, didn't this idea get slapped down by the courts years ago?

 

[UtahApocalypse]

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

Wow, didn't this idea get slapped down by the courts years ago?

I know its not under oath but I still intend to plead the 5th

 

[ghengis86]

24. Direct Eric Holder to stop running guns to Mexico

 

[FunkBuddha]

You're obviously crazy/paranoid if you want to own a gun.

 

[devil21]

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

Wow, didn't this idea get slapped down by the courts years ago?

I predict lots of canoes full of guns tipping over in the near future.

 

[Philhelm]

I understand the new DM is going to have so many new 'personality disorders' that anyone with a personality at all will be in it. That dovetails nicely with wanting an excuse to ban anyone they feel like banning.

Restless Trigger-Finger Syndrome.

 

[phill4paul]

Here seems to be the comprehensive list:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/wh_now_is_the_time_full.pdf

Number four: 4: Improving Mental Health Services.

Basically, they are saying that teachers are now deciding factors when it comes to recognizing mental illness.

If they cannot indoctrinate liberty out of our youth then they will just declare the individualist to have a mental illness.