Barack Obama attempted to unilaterally impose the following on Americans today:
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.
It isn’t law. It isn’t anything but the meaningless words of one man who seeks to disarm Americans.