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Biden Pushes for Stronger Gun Control Measures with Executive Order [Video]

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW!

  • President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at increasing background checks to buy guns, promoting more secure firearms storage, and ensuring U.S. law enforcement agencies get more out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.
  • The order does not change U.S. government policy but directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures.
  • Biden is expected to continue to argue for strong changes as he inches toward a 2024 reelection run.

On March 14, 2023, President Joe Biden signed an executive order aimed at increasing background checks to buy guns, promoting more secure firearms storage, and ensuring U.S. law enforcement agencies get more out of a bipartisan gun control law enacted last summer.

The president addressed his latest efforts to curb gun violence in a speech in suburban Los Angeles, where a gunman stormed a dance hall and shot 20 people, killing 11, following a Lunar New Year celebration in January. He also met with families of victims and with first responders from that day.

The order does not change U.S. government policy but directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures.

It acknowledges Congress’ opposition but states, “In the meantime, my administration will continue to do all that we can, within existing authority, to make our communities safer.”



The order directs the Cabinet to work on a plan to better structure the government to support communities suffering from gun violence. The plan calls on Attorney General Merrick Garland to shore up the rules for federally licensed gun dealers so they know they are required to do background checks as part of the license.

Biden is also mandating better reporting of ballistics data from federal law enforcement for a clearinghouse that allows federal, state, and local law enforcement to match shell casings to guns. However, local and state law enforcement agencies are not required to report ballistics data, and many do not, making the clearinghouse less effective.

Gun control advocates view the bill passed last year, known as the Safer Communities Act, as a good start but one that doesn’t go far enough. After the law was signed, there were 11 other mass shootings, according to a database of mass killings since 2006.

Those killings don’t include shootings in which fewer than four people were killed, and gun violence is also rising nationwide. Pro-gun groups said the order would do little to stop growing gun violence.

“The reality is that nothing in the president’s executive order today would have done anything to prevent the recent mass shootings in California, Michigan, or elsewhere,” said Katie Pointer Baney, the Managing Director of Government Affairs for the U.S. Concealed Carry Association.

Source: apnews.com

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15 Comments

15 Comments

  1. Master Turkeychoker

    March 15, 2023 at 10:32 pm

    i don`t give a rat`s a$$ what biden says or does. He is the most corrupt man ever to hold public office.

  2. BILL BLACKBURN

    March 16, 2023 at 6:37 pm

    BIDEN CANNOT DOT IS AS IT TAKES THE STATES TO RATIFY ANY THING IN THIS AREA

  3. PathfinderChief

    March 16, 2023 at 6:42 pm

    He doesn’t even know, that he has NO authority to do one thing, as far as Gun Control measures. Lucidity, with this Geriatric Jet Setter, is both fleeting, and short lived. He might as well write them on “Charmin”, with a Crayon, for all the legality they hold. We are just stacking up the citations for the 25th Amendment yank of his chain. He should be in an assisted care facility, but then his son Hunger wouldn’t be able to visit him from Federal Prison!

  4. Mike dsrnell

    March 16, 2023 at 6:52 pm

    Biden needs to be put on a leash he doesn’t know the constitution or the 2nd amendment es total out of control and can’t walk or talk

    • Mike Tracy

      March 17, 2023 at 7:21 am

      The second amendment is primarily the avenue written into our constitution that enables the 2nd revolution when government officials threaten the freedom of this country’s citizens. Apparently it’s time!

  5. john

    March 16, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    Inch by inch, step by step… Meanwhile he and Hunter blatantly ignore most laws in their quest for even more money! A thief can never have enough money!

  6. CharlieSeattle

    March 16, 2023 at 7:32 pm

    BS!!! Executive Orders can not trump the US Constitution!

  7. CPO Bill

    March 16, 2023 at 7:35 pm

    Come and Take em M Fs!

  8. ox

    March 16, 2023 at 9:28 pm

    Lying Corrupt Quid Pro KING joe is an incompetent moron, that is going to drive America into a 2nd American Revolution. Corrupt Quid Pro wants a Revolution. Corrupt Quid Pro has already threatened the citizenry with F-16’s. Corrupt Quid pro is to stupid to realize he wont get a pilot to drop bombs on the American citizen and neither will woke General CRT Milley.

  9. Jack

    March 16, 2023 at 11:12 pm

    Joe has no clue what he signed. If anyone were to ask him what he did, he wouldn’t be able to explain. This is nothing more than his puppeteers pulling his strings to push their agenda.

  10. Paul

    March 17, 2023 at 12:29 am

    Biden really loves criminals and anything unlawful. How many executive orders has he do to lock up criminals. Instead he wants laws to make it safer for his criminal friends.

  11. LARRY D HADDEN

    March 17, 2023 at 2:58 am

    EVEN AN IMBISILE CAN UNDERSTAND THAT IT IS NOT THE GUN THAT KILLS. IT IS THE INDIVIDUAL PULLING THE TRIGGER.

  12. David Dutra

    March 17, 2023 at 3:51 am

    PERSONALLY, I THINK GUN SAFETY SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN HIGHSCHOOL KIKE DRIVER ED. IT TAKES ABILITY, KNOWLEDGE OF SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND COMPETENCY AND INSURANCE IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A LICENCE…

  13. paulkersey50ca

    March 18, 2023 at 2:32 pm

    I see. So now we are cancelling constitutional amendments via executive order? umm…no.

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