Smart guns and mental health checks needed to slash gun violence

The White House also wants to hire 200 new investigators and agents at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which will play a central role in the tighter gun policies by clarifying what it means to be “engaged in the business” of selling guns. He authorized the Social Security Administration to release information on people’s disabilities, to see if applicants run into the existing prohibition on sales to those who deemed “mentally defective” or who have been committed to an institution. He frequently bemoans the lack of action by Congress on the issue, because he doesn’t understand that the American people aren’t interested in many of his fundamental transformations.

A visibly moved President Obama announces executive actions to curb gun violence.

“I actually think he was honest, I’ll probably go down about 5 points in the polls by saying that, but I think he was honest”, Mr. Trump said. Have a say in our informal poll, and feel free to join the conversation in the comment section.

In fact, John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety, said, “Millions of guns will (still) be sold online without background checks unless Congress or states pass universal background checks”.

While it is still too early to tell, it seems for some local gun shop owners and promoters, that the executive action might not affect them.

Obama’s order boils down to doing what gun rights supporters have been urging him to do all along: Enforce the laws that are already on the books. “Forty percent of the crime guns in the deadliest sections of Chicago come from gun shows in northwestern Indiana”, Durbin said.

The executive action would expand nationwide numerous regulations California already has in place.

“The NRA doesn’t oppose the development of “smart” guns, nor the ability of Americans to voluntarily acquire them. First graders. And from every family who never imagined that their loved one would be taken from our lives by a bullet from a gun”. When the effort collapsed in the Senate, the White House said it was working to identify every legal step he could take on his own. “That doesn’t make sense”, Obama said.

“No matter how many times people try to twist my words around, I taught constitutional law”.

In 2013, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the NY SAFE Act (Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act) giving New York State the toughest laws in the nation.