Washington, D.C.: Obama to hold public meeting on gun control

Mr Obama addressed reporters in the Oval Office following a meeting with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and other top law enforcement officials. “But what if we tried to stop even one?”

Obama, who recently singled out gun violence as one of the most urgent pieces of “unfinished business” facing him, will take questions from the audience during the event, to be aired on CNN 12am CET. But any action Obama does take will likely face legal challenges.

Gun owner Michael Wilson would like to see the President work with Congress. But, he doesn’t believe the solution is closing the so-called “gun show loophole” on background checks.

The president used a similar tactic after he failed to convince Congress to raise the federal minimum wage.

Most states have laws prohibiting local jurisdictions from passing gun control regulations that would be more restrictive than state law, according to the National Rifle Association and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence – two key advocacy groups that generally are on opposite sides of the debate over gun control.

Fourteen months ago, a fed up Barack Obama decided he no longer had the patience to wait on Congress to enact meaningful immigration reform.

“I am fired up for the year that stretches out before us”, Obama said in his Friday address.

President Obama is back from his Hawaiian vacation and he’s not wasting any time to use his executive powers to push for new gun control measures.

“If you are trying to stop mass shooting that is not going to happen, I am sorry you are not going to prevent that thru limiting gun sales, you are not going to do that”, said Wilson.

He is a planning a televised town hall discussion of his gun control mandates on CNN on Thursday, just days before he delivers his final State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on January 12.

The NRA is the most powerful lobby in Washington, with huge coffers at its disposal and the ability to rally its more than 4 million members in defense of gun ownership and the Second Amendment.

“All these executive orders he’s gonna come out with tomorrow that are going to undermine our Second Amendment rights – on my first day in office, they’re gone”, Florida Sen. Although the details are still uncertain, Obama’s administration has been preparing behind the scenes to expand background checks on gun sales by forcing more sellers to register as dealers.

“This president is a petulant child”, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Sunday on “Fox News Sunday”.

“This is a risky level of executive overreach, and the country will not stand for it”.

Gun supporters are deeply opposed to any new laws.

It’s not clear how large an effect the president’s action would have on keeping guns from violent criminals.

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton said Sunday she’s “especially concerned (about 2016) because I know what a Republican president would mean”.