Obama's New 23 Executive Orders

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Read President Obama's New, Proposed Executive Orders and Legislation on Guns

Here's the list, via the White House. (I did not engage in complication reporter-fu to get this. It's the general fact sheet.)

• 1. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system.
  
  
• 2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.
  
  
• 3. Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.
  
  
• 4. Direct the Attorney General to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.
  
  
• 5. Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.
  
  
• 6. Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers.
  
  
• 7. Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign.
  
  
• 8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
  
  
• 9. Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.
  
  
• 10. Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.
  
  
• 11. Nominate an ATF director.
  
  
• 12. Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations.
  
  
• 13. Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.
  
  
• 14. Issue a Presidential Memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence.
  
  
• 15. Direct the Attorney General to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies
  
  
• 16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
  
  
• 17. Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.
  
  
• 18. Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.
  
  
• 19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.
  
  
• 20. Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.
  
  
• 21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.
  
  
• 22. Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations.
  
  
• 23. Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health.
  
  

And these are the legislative ideas -- i.e., the ones the president wants to push through Congress, starting with the more pliable Senate.

1. Require criminal background checks for all gun sales. (a.k.a. closing the "gun show loophole.")
   
   
2. Reinstate and strengthen the assault weapons ban.
   
   
3. Restore the 10-round limit on ammunition magazines.
   
   
4. Protect police by finishing the job of getting rid of armor-piercing bullets.
   
   
5. Give law enforcement additional tools to prevent and prosecute gun crime.
   
   
6. End the freeze on gun violence research.
   
   
7. Make our schools safer with more school resource officers and school counselors, safer climates, and better emergency response plans.
   
   
8. Help ensure that young people get the mental health treatment they need.
   
   
9. Ensure health insurance plans cover mental health benefits.
   
   

http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2013/01/16/read_president_obama_s_new_proposed_executive_orders_and_legislation_on.html

The great and powerful Oz has spoken!

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[Caryh 5,206]

Wow you mean the NRA and all those politicians lied when they said King Obama was going to order guns get banned? How could they do such a thing? Maybe they just scared him away from doing it. Yeah thats the story and I bet they stick to it.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

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I think I made Ewok about $50 with this thread.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I think I made Ewok about $50 with this thread.

What's your cut?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

What's your cut?

Better question, where's my cut?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Better question, where's my cut?

[justashooter 430]

in other words, he has done nothing that hasn't been done before or is illegal to do.

HIPPA privacy rules are cast in stone, and can not be voided. mental health related prohibition of gun ownership has always required a court adjudication, and always will. you cannot be denied a civil right by anyone less than a judge at an appropriate level. period. the end.

as for the proposed legislative suggestions, well, they are just that. suggestions.

the last gun ban had no effect on the already declining violence rates, which are a byproduct of Roe V Wade, in truth.

"assault weapons" are used in less than 3% of all gun related homicides. the other 97% are mostly handgun related and involve ethnically marginalised community members. to go after "assault weapons" because white people are being killed on occasion is clearly racist, when people of color are dying every day in handgun related violence.

[decocker 7,198]

the last gun ban had no effect on the already declining violence rates, which are a byproduct of Roe V Wade, in truth.

are you saying that roe vs wade has lowered violence in the us?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

are you saying that roe vs wade has lowered violence in the us?

Let's see if he is willing to explain why that may be the case, without violating the TOS here.

[PMartin37 161]

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[Darnell 8,478]

2. Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

This is a data and data access issue, not so much a a legal barrier.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

The great and powerful Oz has spoken!

The leguslative items are DOA. The orders are mostly fluff. CPSC is specifically prohibited by law from addressing firearms. I suppose they can determine standards for products used to lock firearms but cannot require them to be used, so it is also fluff.

Yawn.

[decocker 7,198]

Let's see if he is willing to explain why that may be the case, without violating the TOS here.

i'd really like to know, honestly. since he mentioned it 'in truth'.