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Obama's 23 Executive Gun Control Actions (Here's the list for the high information voter)
Zero Hedge ^ | 01/16/2013 | Tyler Durden

Posted on 01/16/2013 10:46:25 AM PST by SeekAndFind

The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; executiveorder; fascism; guncontrol; gunexecutiveorders; hitler; marxism; obama; obamagunpresser; palin; secondamendment
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To: SeekAndFind

He bought time & we got some, too, in the bargain. Good enough for today.
Forewarned is forearmed, no pun intended.


61 posted on 01/16/2013 11:56:14 AM PST by KGeorge (hoplophobia: n. irrational, morbid fear of guns. A mental disorder coined by Col. Jeff Cooper)
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To: SeekAndFind
Bwahahaha!

Is this Wednesday or the Friday Silliness Thread?

There's so much stupid shat in this, it's hard to tell.

FMCDH(BITS)

62 posted on 01/16/2013 11:58:30 AM PST by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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To: SeekAndFind

So will Walmart start selling ammo again?


63 posted on 01/16/2013 12:03:13 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: Baseballguy

“What is a school resource officer??”

Frequently an off duty cop or other person qualified to provide security.

Usually they are armed.


64 posted on 01/16/2013 12:04:56 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: CygnusXI

Exactly. The devil is in the details. We don’t know what any of this actually means yet.


65 posted on 01/16/2013 12:08:05 PM PST by JGT
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To: SeekAndFind

Correct me if i am wrong, but none of these would have prevented the Newtown massacre.

These actions are a result in the belief that there is a pandemic of people with assault weapons shooting up people.

...which is not true.

Where is the $500 million dollars going to come from to pay for these suggestions?


66 posted on 01/16/2013 12:09:06 PM PST by Tulsa Ramjet ("If not now, when?" "Because it's judgment that defeats us.")
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To: muffaletaman

I’d wondered if this would be a defusing move: let the opposition whip themselves into an embarrassing frenzy, then announce nothing controversial.

New EOs can be issued any time.
And AWB2 is well on its way to Congress.


67 posted on 01/16/2013 12:11:50 PM PST by ctdonath2 (End of debate. Your move.)
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To: CaptSkip
What just happened? The Left blinked?

Crapped their undies, more likely. This is a big nothing, at least short term. I do worry about the mental health and privacy stuff - we STILL don't know everything in Obamacare - but that's going to take them plenty of time to take care of...CDC studies and all. Meanwhile, bigger issues will present themselves, like the country being broke. I don't think that the Dems or the Pubbies have forgotten 1994 or 2000 yet - when gun owners took Dems to the cleaners and promoted Algore to ex-Veep and High Priest of Gaia.

68 posted on 01/16/2013 12:12:38 PM PST by Ancesthntr (Banning guns to prevent crime is like banning cars to prevent drunk driving.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Number 5 concernms me.

If anyone lives in a disaster area, then the police can confiscate first in the ANTICIPATION that once confiscated it will be impossible to have it returned.

Essentially taking without compensation.

Guilty until proven innocent.


69 posted on 01/16/2013 12:14:22 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Scrambler Bob
19. Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education. “

Lapierre already proposed something better than that, i.e., put armed officers in every school. Of course that wasn't acceptable to the gun Nazis because it wouldn't do any harm to our RKBA. Not only that, it would probably be successful which is the last thing the antis want. They're willing to sacrifice our children if that's what it takes to get a total gun ban.

70 posted on 01/16/2013 12:17:11 PM PST by epow (The way of the cross leads home)
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To: Travis McGee

Low information voter:

-free obamaphone!

-obama money to pay our rent!

-free houses!

-MSM: free booze!!!!!!


71 posted on 01/16/2013 12:17:17 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: SeekAndFind

Nothing on that list will keep guns out of the hands of our feral population.


72 posted on 01/16/2013 12:19:03 PM PST by csmusaret (I will give Obama credit for one thing- he is living proof that familiarity breeds contempt.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I like #9: Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

Should work well in Fast & Furious

73 posted on 01/16/2013 12:20:11 PM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: lurk

If my doc ever asks, I will take a page from the military, “I can neither confirm nor deny the presence of firearms in my resides or possession.”


74 posted on 01/16/2013 12:20:46 PM PST by matt04
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To: SeekAndFind
21. Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

Huh? WTH does health exchanges under Obamacare have to do with guns?

76 posted on 01/16/2013 12:22:35 PM PST by matt04
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!

6) Why tell licensed dealers how to conduct background checks on peoples’ private gun sales, of which the dealer has no part? This assumes it will now be illegal to privately sell guns without a background check by a licensed dealer.

The whole intent is to know where each and every weapon is located. NOTHING MORE.
Once the gov't knows where they are, they can go get them.
Look for citizen-informants set up for entrapment stings.
The gov't stooge will put in an offer to buy a weapon. If the seller does not require the sale to be conducted through an FFL holder, the seller will be arrested.

BANK ON IT
In the next few years, you'll see some high profile stings. This is order to show the subjects "whose boss".
Of course with this, all weapons will go underground and you will now be treated like a drug dealer.
77 posted on 01/16/2013 12:24:26 PM PST by TxAg1981
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy
2) “Oh, sure, there are *privacy protections* in HIPPA to protect citizens from government snooping at multiple levels.” Guess what? Your medical records are now public domain.

Some nurse practitioner thinks your "weird", no gun.

78 posted on 01/16/2013 12:26:36 PM PST by Stentor (Shhhh!)
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To: SeekAndFind; RKBA Democrat; First A Patriot; truthkeeper; jwalsh07; rob777; dragnet2; pgkdan; ...
Hope all the conservatives who stayed home (or voted for some third party loser) in November are pleased with themselves today.

I was never a Romney fan, but what happened today would ABSOLUTELY NOT happen under a Romney administration.

And the Marxist hasn't even been inaugurated into his second term yet. We're in for a helluva ride over the next four years...

79 posted on 01/16/2013 12:28:03 PM PST by nutmeg (FUBO!)
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To: driftdiver
So will Walmart start selling ammo again?

Got 300 rounds of 9mm and 150 380 today. They were out of 22 value packs in 2 stores. First time I've seen that.

80 posted on 01/16/2013 12:34:16 PM PST by Stentor (Shhhh!)
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