Louisiana representatives react to Obama’s gun plan

As President Barack Obama announced his plan to take executive actions on gun control, gun stocks saw a sharp spike upward.

He also called for new measures to stop accidental shootings, saying: “If a child can’t open a bottle of aspirin, we should make sure they can’t pull the trigger on a gun”.

“It’s an issue that both (sides) are really going to want to talk about for the next couple of months, but I don’t know how much they’re going to want to talk about it in the fall”, Matthew Dowd, a former political adviser to President George W. Bush, said of the eventual presidential nominees. “I’ve introduced a bipartisan bill to help our communities better identify and treat mental illness and help prevent the mentally ill from obtaining firearms”, McSally said.

That weak spot in the system came under scrutiny last summer when the Federal Bureau of Investigation revealed that Dylann Roof, the accused gunman in the Charleston, S.C., church massacre, was improperly allowed to buy a gun because incomplete record-keeping and miscommunication among authorities delayed processing of his background check beyond the three-day limit.

The executive actions – first previewed by the White House on Monday – would attempt to clamp down on unlicensed gun sellers who exploit an exception for hobbyists and collectors in order to avoid having to run criminal background checks on gun purchasers.

“The problem is that some gun sellers have been operating by a different set of rules”, he said. “That doesn’t make sense”.

In addition to stricter enforcement regarding the reporting of criminal history, Obama’s actions would also strengthen the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health and Human Services’ ability to report relevant mental health issues that could prevent someone from owning a gun.

“We’re very comfortable that the president can legally take these actions now”, said Lynch.

“While we don’t yet know the details of the plan, the President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will”, Ryan said in a statement before Obama met with Lynch. It’s there written on paper. It guarantees the right to bear arms.

“I’m not on the ballot again; I’m not looking to score some points”, he said, adding later that it was possible to reconcile the Constitution with additional restrictions on firearms. “I get it”, he said.

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He said he would continue to fight the president’s “endless assault on Montanans’ Second Amendment rights”.

Mark Boerio, owner of the Army and Navy Store in Latrobe, said he and all other licensed gun dealers in Pennsylvania are required to conduct background checks for all handgun, rifle and long gun sales.

He called on Americans to “demand a Congress fearless enough to stand up to the gun lobby’s lies”.

Congressional Republicans had a mixed reaction to Obama’s announcement. But House Speaker Paul Ryan predicted a certain challenge in the courts.

President Obama cried while listing all the schools where students have been shot, including Newtown, Connecticut, where twenty first-graders, aged 6 and 7, were killed in a mass shooting in 2012.

With his emotional plea for America to embrace some gun control, President Barack Obama on Thursday thrust the contentious issue to the forefront of the 2016 presidential campaign just weeks from the February 1 Iowa caucuses.