Barack Obama has allies in his campaign against gun control

“But we note that they’re not enough”, he says.

The Utah Valley Gun Show makes it clear in its exhibitor agreement that all dealers and vendors that “sell firearms for a portion, or all, of their livelihood must possess a federal firearms license”.

“Instead of taking unilateral executive action, the president should work with Congress and the American people, just as I’ve always done, to pass the proposals he announced today”, Manchin said.

He said to reporters Tuesday that the president “needed to follow the law”, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.

“A violent felon can buy the exact same gun over the Internet with no background check”, Obama said through the TV screen.

For its part, the NRA called Obama’s announcement “political rhetoric” and an “attempt to distract attention away from his lack of a coherent strategy to keep the American people safe from terrorist attack”.

The more the Obama administration acts as though the guidance has created a new legal requirement, the more legal trouble it might invite, said Lisa Heinzerling, administrative law professor at Georgetown University.

A representative said the additional $500 million dollars the President is seeking from Congress could be beneficial.

His main intention was to narrow the definition of a gun dealer to mean anyone who sells guns as a business and thereby increase the number of gun sales subject to a background check.

He said his plan would stop some gun deaths, but not all, and said it’s worth trying measures that might lead to some decrease.

What’s more, none of the steps would have probably prevented any of the recent mass shootings that Obama invoked in the East Room: Aurora, Oak Creek, Charleston, Newtown, to name some.

While much of the technology the president described has already been developed at least in concept – including fingerprint readers on gun lock boxes, Global Positioning System chips and Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags in gun frames capable of tracking a weapon’s location and how it’s used – gun rights advocates claim such technology will inevitably slow a gun owners’ ability to access their weapons in emergencies.

The Second Amendment enshrines Americans’ right to bear arms.

The president’s actions are expected to be met with a legislative fight from Congress.

Republicans in Congress including House Speaker Paul Ryan wasted no time criticizing the president’s orders as gross executive overreach, and said the regulations will face challenges in the courts. A powerful lobbying group backed by Michael Bloomberg has shifted from the idea that gun control is a losing issue in local elections.

Gov. Greg Abbott also hinted at a Lone Star backlash as state Republican officials took a dim view of Obama’s initiatives, which included stricter licensing for gun sellers and wider background checks on buyers. Certainly none of these mass shootings would be affected by these new executive orders. Or if maybe the attorney general of Arkansas nullifies them in Arkansas.