Barack Obama’s New Year’s Resolution: Tackle The ‘Unfinished Business’ Of Gun

US President Barack Obama, in a New Year’s address, made fighting gun violence a resolution for 2016, calling it a major piece of “unfinished business” in his time at the White House.

President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to finalize a package of executive decrees that could make it harder for private citizens to purchase guns from their family or neighbor and could include other provisions that would deny gun ownership to law abiding Americans.

Obama said on his weekly radio address that he gets so many letters from parents, teachers and children about the “epidemic of gun violence” that he can’t “sit around and do nothing”. White House spokesman Eric Schultz said that the President expected a set of recommendations on unilateral action to arrive at the beginning of the year.

The president will ask Congress to shut down the terror detention center at Guantanamo, a facility Mr. Obama may close on his own if lawmakers balk at the White House plan.

President Obama said in July that he has been “most frustrated and most stymied” by the country’s inability to enact “sufficient, common sense gun safety laws”. This re-definition could result in requiring private gun sellers to obtain a Federal Firearms License (FFL) and perform background checks on every sale, even if they only sell guns as a hobby occasionally.

The loophole allegedly allows criminals to circumvent background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. “The gun lobby is loud and well-organized in its defense of effortlessly available guns for anyone”.

Obama defiantly said, ‘I will politicize it because our inaction is a political decision that we are making’. “I’ve heard different things”, said Vaughn.

“I’m also a supporter of rational reasonable gun control measures”, he said.

He became impassioned as he added that tens of thousands of Americans were gunned down during his tine in office.

According to CNN, the executive action could also increase funding to enforce gun laws. “And we are still seeing one mass shooter after another passing background checks and LEGALLY stockpiling guns despite obvious red flags in their background indicating [a] history of violence”.

Before leaving for his winter vacation in Hawaii, Obama met with Bloomberg at the White House to discuss gun control.