So just what are the 23 executive orders President Obama signed today as part of his plan to curb gun violence? Dave Weigel at Slate runs them down, and here's a sampling from him and AP:
- "Require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system."
- Order "tougher penalties for people who lie on background checks."
- Have the attorney general "review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks."
- Direct the Centers for Disease Control "to research the causes and prevention of gun violence." (This one is getting a lot of attention. See here.)
- Nominate an ATF director.
- "Require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations."
- Give "schools flexibility to use federal grant money to improve school safety, such as by hiring school resource officers."
Read Weigel's full list
here. Or see details on each from the White House itself
here. These are separate from the list of proposed laws Obama hopes to push through Congress starting next week—reinstating the ban on assault weapons, limiting high-capacity ammunition magazines, closing loopholes on gun sales, and more, reports the
New York Times. (More
President Obama stories.)
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