GOP Presidential Candidates Fuss About Obama’s Push For Gun Control

President Obama plans to announce executive actions he will take on gun control on Tuesday, a source tells ABC News.

The “gun show loophole” exists because some people who sell firearms at gun shows are not federally licensed, meaning selling at gun shows could increase the chance of sales to customers prohibited by law from purchasing guns. The right to bear arms is protected by the U.S. Constitution, and the National Rifle Association, the top U.S. gun rights group, is feared and respected in Washington for its ability to mobilize gun owners.

“We’re not changing the Second Amendment”, the billionaire businessman and former Atlantic City casino magnate said during a rally in Biloxi, Miss., on Saturday.

Still, the President should be on firm Second Amendment ground if he pushes for a widening in the way the current law is applied, legal experts said. The meeting, broadcast from George Mason University, will be aired on CNN and be hosted by Anderson Cooper.

The announcement is expected to come sometime before the last State of the Union address of Obama’s presidency.

Obama has repeatedly called for tougher gun control in the wake of a series of mass shootings in the USA – most recently the massacre that claimed 14 people in San Bernardino, Calif., which authorities called a terrorist attack.

But after the shooting at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon in October, a tired and angry Obama ordered his staff to redouble the effort to look for ways to work around Congress.

In an email sent out over the weekend by the Democratic Party, President Barack Hussein Obama urges followers to join him in the effort to enact stricter gun laws. “I’m very hopeful and excited that the president is going to take some action with executive action in the next week or two… but if it’s a Republican who walks into the White House within the first day, the executive orders will be reversed”.

In a TV interview Sunday, the Republican front-running presidential candidate said there’s no need to do anything to bolster gun controls.

He added, “This is going to be another illegal executive action, which I’m sure will be rejected by the courts, and when I become president will be stricken from executive action”. “We have plenty of rules and regulations”. The possibility of a Democratic administration coming in and changing gun laws that tends to spur gun sales.

The issue is likely to dominate Obama’s first week back at the White House after a family holiday in Hawaii, and will probably generate heated debate in the final weeks before voters in Iowa cast the first votes of the 2016 election season.