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Here Are the 23 ‘Executive Actions’ Obama Will Be Taking on Guns

Jan. 16, 2013 3:10pm Jonathon M. Seidl

Below is a list of the 23 “executive actions” that the president will be taking in the wake of the Sandy Hook massacre. Via the Wall Street Journal.

“There’s very little in this part that will be too big or controversial,” claims Business Insider. “It’s very small bore regulatory stuff.”

We’ll let you decide:

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.

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For more in-depth coverage of the president’s gun speech on Wednesday, see our complete story here.

You can read the text of Obama’s speech here.

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In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

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Comments (351)

HI_Don
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:11pm
There is so much in these 23 items designed not to take away your 2nd amendment, but instead to simply prevent you from getting or keeping a gun based on someones judgement. “Evaluate groups who should be prevented” -translation Conservatives we consider nut jobs. Stronger response to “gun crimes” – In Hawaii if you place your unloaded trigger locked gun in a lock box in the trunk of your car and instead of driving directly to the gun range you detour in order to buy ammo – if stopped for speeding you can get charged with “gun trafficking”, confiscate your gun and your car and you will get neither back..ever because the state didn’t say you could have your legal gun with you outside your home. Let doctors ask you about gun ownership – translation: Get doctors who hate guns to claim your unstable because you like them. These are an agenda foundation, not a solution to whack-Os killing kids. The second amendment says I (the citizen) must not be infringed in being able to be an armed militia against tyranny. That ought to mean I can buy any gun I need to defend myself against any gun the government has – including FULLY automatic. But we already lost that right. What more will we let them take before we march to the gas chambers?

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idontknow3
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:09pm
Hey Blaze – sometime my comments are in the form of a photo cartoon saved as a jpeg. When will you let us comment via pasting a photo or cartoon. Is this not an editorial comment place?

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- The-Monk
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:35pm
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- barber2
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 6:12pm
  MONK: Exactly. One can tell that the Blaze is already a target just from the Troll comments .
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:07pm
I’m guessing that #4 will apply to most of us here on this board and anyone else who dare question his royal highassness.

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FedUpAlready
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:02pm
Barry, said 900 people have been killed by guns in the last year, where is this written or proven? Does this count Military and suicides?

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- Outlaw_Josey_Wales
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:50pm
  Chicago Obama’s home city, 506 murders in 2012.
  
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zman61
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:01pm
who wants to take bets on one of the conservative supreme court justices mysteriously kicking the bucket right after the next mass shooting? we could all get a pool going and all chip in $5 each. We could have a second pool on which one it will be. Then the dictator in chief can appoint another lib-tard. then it’s all over.

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environmentalandawake
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:58pm
We need to Organize in a big way, and make some decisions for OUR FUTURE, because it is blatently obvious this Overspending Drunken Teenager of a President is incapable of steering our future.

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noslave
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:56pm
like hitler used the youths to rat out their parents??maybe the communist teachers adoreing obama will indoctrinate the kids? the other stealth order is the CDC comes up with a malady/mental problem prevelent to 2nd amendment gun owners?you know were sick folks who cling to god ,guns and apple pie??

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RDavis49
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:54pm
Oh yes, every one of these 23 items really going to be effective in making a criminal/potential mass murder obey the law and not go shoot someone. Most of what I see here is invasion of privacy, nothing more. Nuts are still gonna be nuts, killers will still be killers, mass shootings will still occur…. blah, blah, blah, blah. Same ol’ democrat BS.

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florida123
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:53pm
Ok thats it? Odumbo is clueless as usual!

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blackfeather
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:53pm
a pathetic “theater” for re-election votes…nauseating.

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moreteaplease
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:51pm
yougottabekidding
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:06pm

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.

Holder is in charge of this?
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That’s almost comical isn’t it? Up is down and down is up.

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Your Name Here
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:51pm
You claim to want to save children yet you promote abortion as if it’s a ride at the county fair.
Why not promote PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY and MORALS if you want to see real change.

Restricting the size of a gun magazine is assinine and tantamount to wanting to ban cars because people are killed by cars.

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Polly Sigh
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:45pm
#11. Nominate an ATF director. Don’t we already have one?

16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes. It also does not require that we answer doctors questions about guns in our homes.

This whole list is designed to put the CURRENTLY aroused populace back to sleep.

WATCH THE OTHER HAND !!!!!

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Hilliary2016
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:45pm
Bravo Mr. President, Bravo.

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paprtowl
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:43pm
executive orders ( directives ) only apply to executive branch employees and properties , not to the states as per the 9th and 10th amendments to our constitution . there is no provision in our constitution for an executive order , only laws passed by congress and signed by the president . not the auto pen ( a facsimile ) .
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- paprtowl
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 5:07pm
  “?” ( is not caps)
  
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antiliberalmatter
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:41pm
23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
Isn’t this a case of “The pot calling the kettle black”???

You’ve GOT to be Kidding!

We are in deep doo-doo.

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matamoros
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:39pm
Because I have so much respect for the Office of the Presidency, I’m going to refrain from what I really want to say, and temper my words accordingly. Thus I will only say this

“this ******* can shove his executive orders up his muslim a$$ !!!!”

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TheTram
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:38pm
What is the difference between “action” & “order” when it comes to this? Is he just blowing hot air towards on what they should do?

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HigherRoad
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:38pm
If these executive orders are allowed to proceed, it will set a precedent that puts all personal liberty Constitutional Amendments at risk of forfeiture . Weapons regulation should be handled by State or local law enforcement. There are already sufficient laws on the books to cover these contingencies. The Center for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence? What if the CDC decides that being a Christian or being a member of the Tea Party is a cause for gun violence? It is putting too much power into a non-elected governmental agency which can then be used against any group of people the government wishes to target! Absolutely “no” to all of these. We are treading on dangerous ground if these executive orders are allowed to become law.

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KernelOfTruth
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:37pm
Yawn

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zetuff
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:36pm
I love #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.

I wonder what categories the AG will come up with? Christian? Pro-Life? NRA member? Pro-Military? Conservative

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shorthanded12
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:36pm
$500,000,000.00 million dollar ponzy scheme to rape the tax payers more. The “ILLeagal 23″

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nacilbuper
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:30pm
18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

So give money to schools to hire armed guards. Is that not what all of his disciples were making fun of the NRA for?

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P8TR10T
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:30pm
I like #4…. which basically let’s the government define who they think is dangerous and then keep us all from having guns.

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Grannie4news
Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:29pm
Gee, I bet in the future there are about to be a whooooole lot more of mentally handicapped people. He has always talked about those who cling to their bibles and their guns to be radical. This is the beginning a slippery ride down the slope for sure. Let us pray this time that Congress will grow some and not fund anything he proposes.

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- zapparules
  Posted on January 16, 2013 at 4:54pm
  “He has always talked about those who cling to their bibles and their guns to be radical.”
  
  Where do you get this stuff?
  No. 1: ALWAYS talked about… ???
  He said this once.
  Quote: “You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, Ohio—like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years, and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton administration and the Bush administration. And each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are going to regenerate. And they have not. So it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, and they cling to guns or religion, or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or, you know, anti-trade sentiment [as] a way to explain their frustrations.”
  
  To be radical???
  So where in that quote do you hear Obama calling such folks ”radical”?
  
  And you might want to further educate your self with respect to the whole mentally handicapped thing.
  Simply having a mental handicap does not make one dangerous.
  We – and from what I was hearing that meant both folks on the left AND right – hope to identify those people who may be mentally handicapped AND pose a threat to others.
  Do you have a problem with society trying to identify such folks?
  Please, if you have a way to help us identify such folks… SPEAK UP.
  We are tying to address a very serious problem in this country and could use all the help we can get in doi
  
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