Obama unveils presidential plan to cut gun violence

President Obama has unveiled new requirements that all gun sellers to register as dealers – even those who sell at gun shows and online – and to run background checks on all prospective purchasers, aiming to curb a scourge of gun violence despite unyielding opposition to new gun laws in Congress. To that end, the government will consider other factors, including how many guns a person sells and how frequently, and whether those guns are sold for a profit. The FBI will also hire over 230 examiners and staff to assist in the expanded background checks.

The White House is seeking to expand background checks for buyers.

“I am a firm believer in the 2nd Amendment and I can not support the further erosion of these guaranteed rights for law-abiding citizens”.

Daubenmier said gun violence is an issue of life and liberty. But a lot of things don’t happen overnight.

“We do have to feel a sense of urgency about it”, the president said. “It’s a social issue that’s the case”.

The impact of Obama’s plan on gun violence remains a major question, and one not easily answered.

As firearms control backers praised Obama’s newly announced efforts to prevent gun violence – which include expanding background checks for gun purchasers and closing loopholes that allow some buyers to avoid them – Rieck and other firearms advocates disputed whether it would prevent crime.

“No matter what President Obama says, his word does not trump the Second Amendment”.

Brady Campaign president Dan Gross said Obama’s actions “will make a significant impact on our goal of preventing gun violence and making this the safer nation that we all want and deserve”.

‘We maybe can’t save everybody, but we can save some’.

Former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head at a political event in Arizona on January 8, 2011, was also in attendance, as were relatives of victims from the June 2015 Charleston, S.C., church shooting.

In Daines’ official statement he called out the action for being ineffective, stating the the president is pushing an anti-gun agenda.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, both competing for the nomination from Obama’s party, pledged to build on his actions if elected.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio described Mr Obama as “obssessed” with gun control. And he called for Congress to fund another 200 ATF agents and investigators to enforce gun laws already on the books.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said the executive action is a unsafe overreach by President Obama and the country will not stand for it. A recent study found that about one in 30 people looking to buy guns on one website had criminal records – one out of 30 had a criminal record.

Obama wiped back tears as he remembered children who died in a mass shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

As part of the new proposals, the Department of Health and Human Services is finalizing a rule to remove some of those barriers, the White House said.

But legal challenges are expected and Republican presidential contenders have pledged to reverse his order if they win the White House.