Gun control next on Obama’s agenda

“It’s really hard to tell somebody what they can and can’t do with their own personal property, but at the same time you do have people who are searching for guns that are supposedly off-record”, said Davis.

Enacting new gun rules, which the administration promised in December, is part of “my New Year’s resolution to move forward on our unfinished business as much as I can”, Obama said is his weekly video and radio address, released on Friday.

Obama will make a pitch for public support in an hour-long live town hall meeting, to be held on Thursday evening. Obama purportedly will use executive action to require small-scale gun sellers to order background checks on prospective consumers & tighten laws for gun sales to those in that have dedicated domestic-abuse offenses. The program will air on CNN, at 8:00 p.m., ET.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, also on Fox, said Obama’s “first impulse is always to take rights away from law-abiding citizens, and it’s wrong”.

AP reports she has called for more aggressive executive actions on guns.

ROANOKE (WSLS10) – On Monday, President Obama will meet with Attorney General Loretta Lynch to discuss gun control and enforcing tighter restrictions.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump vowed to reverse any such actions if he’s elected.

“I think frankly, it’s nearly laughable in today’s society that we have something like that”, said Tom Purcell, who lives in Roanoke.

He plans to close this gap without the congressional vote and plans to use his oval office powers.

“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”. The changes would be aimed at some sellers who skirt the background check laws by selling at gun shows or informal settings.

“They still have a number of important things they need to do”, Rhodes said.

Attendees said it may be because people want to purchase a firearm before President Barack Obama’s new executive orders are issued.

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“I have never seen so many people in there you can barely even look at a gun”, said attendee, Alex Aszelay.

The Gun Violence Archive, which collects data on gun incidents from media, government and commercial sources, reported 33 deaths on January 1 from 106 incidents involving firearms.

Obama failed to pass his anti-gun agenda though Congress because the majority of Americans oppose more gun-control.