Obama expected to add new gun control measures

President Obama will meet with the Attorney General next week to talk about possible executive actions the President can take to make it harder, he says, for a risky few to get guns… Those buyers would then be subject to background checks.

Those who oppose action on guns to help lessen gun-related violence in the United States often defend their second amendment rights, resting their argument on the importance of law-abiding citizens wielding weapons defensively.

The source, a member of a gun control advocacy group, was not authorised to discuss details before the announcement and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Obama also recently signed into law a Congress-approved bill that will phase out plastic microbeads used in soaps, body washes and other personal-care products starting in 2017. They suggest assessing such factors as the entity’s volume and speed of sales, and whether or not the seller relies on advertising to sell guns. And he’s spelling out his agenda for the remaining time in the White House.

The comments come amid speculation that Obama, who begins his last full year in office Friday, could lay out a series of gun control executive actions as soon as next week.

Frustrated by Congress, Obama has vowed to use “whatever power this office holds” to put in place gun control measures.

But polls show more Americans that not still disapprove of the job he’s doing, and the Republican-led Congress has shown little appetite for passing any of his legislative proposals.

The changes in language-as it relates to being “involved in gun sales”-will be used to broaden the occasions on which background checks are required, thereby further narrowing the remaining avenues by which Americans may buy a gun without government permission”.

Since December 2012 – when twenty children and six adults were fatally shot by a gunman at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut – President Obama has pushed for gun law reforms, including expanded background checks and a ban on high-capacity magazines.

He said it was also supported by a majority of the National Rifle Association members, but “the gun lobby mobilized against it and the Senate blocked it”.

“I actually think it’s ideology, not common sense, that causes the left wing, every time, in a knee-jerk reaction, to say the answer here is more laws when we’re not enforcing the laws we have”, Mrs. Fiorina said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe”. “But what if we tried to stop even one?”