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.
That's interesting, since the ACA prohibits the docs from putting such information into patient files or otherwise recording it or notifying anyone. That'll be challenged toot sweet by someone, hopefully someone who was asked by the doc and finds out that it was reported. This conflicts DIRECTLY with the law, not to mention privacy concerns.
Note that it is also a "boundary violation" by the docs if they advise you to put your guns in a safe. They are not licensed as safety experts, and if such results in your injury (or one to anyone in your family), the doc can be sued and malpractice insurance will not cover him. It'll also be interesting if the docs tell you to similarly lock up harmful household chemicals - and if someone is injured in the absence of such advice, while the doc advised you to lock up your guns.
FUBO!
"Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as are life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolable. On the contrary, no human legislation has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner himself commit some act that amounts to forfeiture."-- William Blackstone
And what group is all these “mental health initiatives” targeting?
VETERANS!
That’s the 23 EO’s?
#’s 2 and 3 seem to be all about intimidating states. I don’t see a single one that actually “addresses gun violence” - with the exception of #18... shocking that this one is there, though it’s meaningless as presented.
Those are the EO’s?
“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.”
There goes hairy reid’s ‘gift’ to the NRA in obamacare. Pop goes the weasel.
“Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature. … it is the greatest absurdity to suppose it in the power of one, or any number of men, at entering into society, to renounce their essential natural rights, or the means of preserving those rights; when the grand end of civil government, from the very nature of its institution, is for the support, protection, and defense of those very rights; the principal of which, as is before observed, are Life, Liberty, and Property. If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any essential natural right, the eternal law of reason and the grand end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.”– Samuel Adams, The Rights of the Colonists, The Report of the Committee of Correspondence to the Boston Town Meeting, Nov. 20, 1772
8. Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission).
This one can get very expensive. imagine if they say that every gun safe must meet Class 5 levels?
16. Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.
It merely says that an MD cannot RECORD your answer in a database.
I joined the NRA over fifty years ago.
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Didn't think so... All we will see is anti-gun propaganda.