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Monday Letters: Another Cook County attack on gun rights
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The Cook County Board has a proposed ordinance before it which will attempt to restrict the 2nd Amendment rights of all law-abiding citizens in Cook County. The ordinance calls for the “prohibitions on the sale of firearm to, and purchase of firearm by, a person not covered by appropriate liability insurance.”
This means Cook County residents would not be able to purchase and own a firearm without first acquiring firearm liability insurance.

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Gun Shows

Obama gun actions will focus on unlicensed dealers at gun shows, online Gregory Korte, USA TODAY 10:20 p.m. EST January 4, 2016 President Obama is announcing a series of executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence in the U.S. Here is what you need to know about the decision that is already being met with mixed emotions. VPC AFP 547589474 A GOV USA DC (Photo: Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images) 4422 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 759 COMMENT EMAIL MORE WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce a series of executive actions to curb gun violence Tuesday, focusing on businesses that buy and sell guns at gun shows, flea markets and online without a license — thus allowing buyers to evade the criminal background check required at brick-and-mortar gun stores. The initiative stops far short of completely closing what's been called the "gun show loophole." Instead, the Justice Department will clarify an existing law that gun sellers who market firearms through gun shows and online can be "engaged in the business" of dealing in guns and require a federal license. That's important because under the law, gun sales by hobbyists and collectors do not require background checks, but licensed gun dealers do. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said gun sellers would no longer be able to "hide behind the exception" to claim they're not a dealer simply because they sell at gun shows. "Let me be clear: It’s not where you are located but what you are doing that determines whether you are engaged in the business of dealing in firearms," Lynch told reporters Monday. But she emphasized that the new initiative does not change any laws or regulations, and that the exception for legitimate hobbyists and collectors remains in the law. The new guidance, which will be issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week, also stops short of setting any numerical threshold of gun sales that would require a federal license. While the numbers are relevant, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said the ATF will consider all the "facts and circumstances" of the gun seller: Whether he or she has business cards, accepts credit card payments, makes a profit or sells guns in their original packaging or shortly after acquiring them. Lynch noted that courts have held that as few as two sales could trigger the requirement. The Obama administration will also hire more examiners to conduct gun background checks, clarify rules on lost and stolen guns, upgrade its criminal history and ballistics databases, and urge states to report more domestic violence convictions to the federal government. The Social Security Administration is also exploring a process that would submit information about beneficiaries with mental health disabilities to the background check system. And in a presidential memorandum Monday, Obama directed the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to study "smart gun" technology to prevent accidental gunshots and allow better tracking of lost and stolen guns — with the idea of using the federal government's purchasing power to encourage gun makers to market safer firearms. USA TODAY Through executive orders, Obama tests power as purchaser-in-chief Even before formally announcing the new actions, Obama promised Monday that the steps would be both within his legal authority and supported by "the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners." But he also acknowledged the limitations on his strategy of acting without congressional legislation. "It is my strong belief that for us to get our complete arm around the problem, Congress needs to act," he told reporters in the Oval Office after meeting with top law enforcement officials. "We’ll be making sure that people have a very clear understanding of what can make a difference and what we can do," he said. "We have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. It’s not going to prevent every mass shooting. It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal." House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that anything Obama proposes would be "a dangerous level of executive overreach" and predicted a public backlash. But the National Rifle Association offered a restrained assessment of the White House actions. "There is nothing in this set of proposals that would improve public safety," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said Monday. "President Obama is distracting the American people from his inability to keep us safe. This underscores the lack of seriousness the president has placed on this issue." USA TODAY Ryan sees 'overreach' in Obama gun action Obama will announce the new measures at the White House on Tuesday morning, with families of gun violence victims invited to the event. Gun control advocates called the move "historic." “President Obama has taken the bold and meaningful action that Brady and its millions of supporters have been calling for," said Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pointed to recent polls showing 89% of Americans — and 84% of gun owners — support universal background checks. "This is not a partisan endeavor. And this is not just something that is being advanced by people who are strong advocates of gun control. Gun owners and Republicans overwhelmingly support at least this common-sense step, closing the gun show loophole," he said. Obama described the problem of gun violence as including both the headline-grabbing mass shootings and the everyday homicides, suicides and accidents that claim tens of thousands of lives a year. Obama met Monday with Lynch, Jarrett, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Director Thomas Brandon and White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. He also met Monday with Democrats in Congress who have been pushing gun legislation. Contributing: Kevin Johnson 4422 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 759 COMMENT EMAIL MORE Obama gun actions will focus on unlicensed dealers at gun shows, online Gregory Korte, USA TODAY 10:20 p.m. EST January 4, 2016 President Obama is announcing a series of executive actions aimed at curbing gun violence in the U.S. Here is what you need to know about the decision that is already being met with mixed emotions. VPC AFP 547589474 A GOV USA DC (Photo: Jim Watson, AFP/Getty Images) 4422 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 759 COMMENT EMAIL MORE WASHINGTON — President Obama will announce a series of executive actions to curb gun violence Tuesday, focusing on businesses that buy and sell guns at gun shows, flea markets and online without a license — thus allowing buyers to evade the criminal background check required at brick-and-mortar gun stores. The initiative stops far short of completely closing what's been called the "gun show loophole." Instead, the Justice Department will clarify an existing law that gun sellers who market firearms through gun shows and online can be "engaged in the business" of dealing in guns and require a federal license. That's important because under the law, gun sales by hobbyists and collectors do not require background checks, but licensed gun dealers do. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said gun sellers would no longer be able to "hide behind the exception" to claim they're not a dealer simply because they sell at gun shows. "Let me be clear: It’s not where you are located but what you are doing that determines whether you are engaged in the business of dealing in firearms," Lynch told reporters Monday. But she emphasized that the new initiative does not change any laws or regulations, and that the exception for legitimate hobbyists and collectors remains in the law. The new guidance, which will be issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week, also stops short of setting any numerical threshold of gun sales that would require a federal license. While the numbers are relevant, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said the ATF will consider all the "facts and circumstances" of the gun seller: Whether he or she has business cards, accepts credit card payments, makes a profit or sells guns in their original packaging or shortly after acquiring them. Lynch noted that courts have held that as few as two sales could trigger the requirement. The Obama administration will also hire more examiners to conduct gun background checks, clarify rules on lost and stolen guns, upgrade its criminal history and ballistics databases, and urge states to report more domestic violence convictions to the federal government. The Social Security Administration is also exploring a process that would submit information about beneficiaries with mental health disabilities to the background check system. And in a presidential memorandum Monday, Obama directed the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to study "smart gun" technology to prevent accidental gunshots and allow better tracking of lost and stolen guns — with the idea of using the federal government's purchasing power to encourage gun makers to market safer firearms. USA TODAY Through executive orders, Obama tests power as purchaser-in-chief Even before formally announcing the new actions, Obama promised Monday that the steps would be both within his legal authority and supported by "the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners." But he also acknowledged the limitations on his strategy of acting without congressional legislation. "It is my strong belief that for us to get our complete arm around the problem, Congress needs to act," he told reporters in the Oval Office after meeting with top law enforcement officials. "We’ll be making sure that people have a very clear understanding of what can make a difference and what we can do," he said. "We have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. It’s not going to prevent every mass shooting. It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal." House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that anything Obama proposes would be "a dangerous level of executive overreach" and predicted a public backlash. But the National Rifle Association offered a restrained assessment of the White House actions. "There is nothing in this set of proposals that would improve public safety," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said Monday. "President Obama is distracting the American people from his inability to keep us safe. This underscores the lack of seriousness the president has placed on this issue." USA TODAY Ryan sees 'overreach' in Obama gun action Obama will announce the new measures at the White House on Tuesday morning, with families of gun violence victims invited to the event. Gun control advocates called the move "historic." “President Obama has taken the bold and meaningful action that Brady and its millions of supporters have been calling for," said Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pointed to recent polls showing 89% of Americans — and 84% of gun owners — support universal background checks. "This is not a partisan endeavor. And this is not just something that is being advanced by people who are strong advocates of gun control. Gun owners and Republicans overwhelmingly support at least this common-sense step, closing the gun show loophole," he said. Obama described the problem of gun violence as including both the headline-grabbing mass shootings and the everyday homicides, suicides and accidents that claim tens of thousands of lives a year. Obama met Monday with Lynch, Jarrett, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Director Thomas Brandon and White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. He also met Monday with Democrats in Congress who have been pushing gun legislation. Contributing: Kevin Johnson 4422 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 759 COMMENT EMAIL MORE The initiative stops far short of completely closing what's been called the "gun show loophole." Instead, the Justice Department will clarify an existing law that gun sellers who market firearms through gun shows and online can be "engaged in the business" of dealing in guns and require a federal license. That's important because under the law, gun sales by hobbyists and collectors do not require background checks, but licensed gun dealers do. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said gun sellers would no longer be able to "hide behind the exception" to claim they're not a dealer simply because they sell at gun shows. "Let me be clear: It’s not where you are located but what you are doing that determines whether you are engaged in the business of dealing in firearms," Lynch told reporters Monday. But she emphasized that the new initiative does not change any laws or regulations, and that the exception for legitimate hobbyists and collectors remains in the law. The new guidance, which will be issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this week, also stops short of setting any numerical threshold of gun sales that would require a federal license. While the numbers are relevant, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett said the ATF will consider all the "facts and circumstances" of the gun seller: Whether he or she has business cards, accepts credit card payments, makes a profit or sells guns in their original packaging or shortly after acquiring them. Lynch noted that courts have held that as few as two sales could trigger the requirement. The Obama administration will also hire more examiners to conduct gun background checks, clarify rules on lost and stolen guns, upgrade its criminal history and ballistics databases, and urge states to report more domestic violence convictions to the federal government. The Social Security Administration is also exploring a process that would submit information about beneficiaries with mental health disabilities to the background check system. And in a presidential memorandum Monday, Obama directed the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to study "smart gun" technology to prevent accidental gunshots and allow better tracking of lost and stolen guns — with the idea of using the federal government's purchasing power to encourage gun makers to market safer firearms. USA TODAY Through executive orders, Obama tests power as purchaser-in-chief Even before formally announcing the new actions, Obama promised Monday that the steps would be both within his legal authority and supported by "the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners." But he also acknowledged the limitations on his strategy of acting without congressional legislation. "It is my strong belief that for us to get our complete arm around the problem, Congress needs to act," he told reporters in the Oval Office after meeting with top law enforcement officials. "We’ll be making sure that people have a very clear understanding of what can make a difference and what we can do," he said. "We have to be very clear that this is not going to solve every violent crime in this country. It’s not going to prevent every mass shooting. It’s not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal." House Speaker Paul Ryan said Monday that anything Obama proposes would be "a dangerous level of executive overreach" and predicted a public backlash. But the National Rifle Association offered a restrained assessment of the White House actions. "There is nothing in this set of proposals that would improve public safety," NRA spokeswoman Jennifer Baker said Monday. "President Obama is distracting the American people from his inability to keep us safe. This underscores the lack of seriousness the president has placed on this issue." USA TODAY Ryan sees 'overreach' in Obama gun action Obama will announce the new measures at the White House on Tuesday morning, with families of gun violence victims invited to the event. Gun control advocates called the move "historic." “President Obama has taken the bold and meaningful action that Brady and its millions of supporters have been calling for," said Dan Gross, the president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest pointed to recent polls showing 89% of Americans — and 84% of gun owners — support universal background checks. "This is not a partisan endeavor. And this is not just something that is being advanced by people who are strong advocates of gun control. Gun owners and Republicans overwhelmingly support at least this common-sense step, closing the gun show loophole," he said. Obama described the problem of gun violence as including both the headline-grabbing mass shootings and the everyday homicides, suicides and accidents that claim tens of thousands of lives a year. Obama met Monday with Lynch, Jarrett, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI Director James Comey, Acting Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Director Thomas Brandon and White House Counsel Neil Eggleston. He also met Monday with Democrats in Congress who have been pushing gun legislation. Contributing: Kevin Johnson 4422 CONNECT TWEET 2 LINKEDIN 759 COMMENT EMAIL MORE

Thursday, January 21, 2016

Obama--Gun Control Doesn't Stop Killings

News Desk NEWS DESK OCTOBER 2, 2015 The Second Amendment Is a Gun-Control Amendment BY ADAM GOPNIK ShareTweet Obama, once again is inept in believing that "Gun Control" is going to stop the killing of our American citizens by others in America. Participants consoling each other during a candlelight vigil for the nine people who were killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday. The gunman also was killed. Participants consoling each other during a candlelight vigil for the nine people who were killed in a shooting at Umpqua Community College, in Roseburg, Oregon, on Thursday. The gunman also was killed. CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH BY RICH PEDRONCELLI/AP The tragedy happens—yesterday at a school in Oregon, and then as it will again—exactly as predicted, and uniquely here. It hardly seems worth the energy to once again make the same essential point that the President—his growing exasperation and disbelief moving, if not effective, as he serves as national mourner—has now made again: we know how to fix this. Gun control ends gun violence as surely an antibiotics end bacterial infections, as surely as vaccines end childhood measles—not perfectly and in every case, but overwhelmingly and everywhere that it’s been taken seriously and tried at length. These lives can be saved. Kids continue to die en masse because one political party won’t allow that to change, and the party won’t allow it to change because of the irrational and often paranoid fixations that make the massacre of students and children an acceptable cost of fetishizing guns. In the course of today’s conversation, two issues may come up, treated in what is now called a trolling tone—pretending to show concern but actually standing in the way of real argument. One is the issue of mental health and this particular killer’s apparent religious bigotry. Everyone crazy enough to pick up a gun and kill many people is crazy enough to have an ideology to attach to the act. The point—the only point—is that, everywhere else, that person rants in isolation or on his keyboard; only in America do we cheerfully supply him with military-style weapons to express his rage. As the otherwise reliably Republican (but still Canadian-raised) David Frum wisely writes: “Every mass shooter has his own hateful motive. They all use the same tool.”

More standard, and seemingly more significant, is the claim—often made by those who say they recognize the tragedy of mass shootings and pretend, at least, that they would like to see gun sanity reign in America—that the Second Amendment acts as a barrier to anything like the gun laws, passed after mass shootings, that have saved so many lives in Canada and Australia. Like it or not, according to this argument, the Constitution limits our ability to control the number and kinds of guns in private hands. Even the great Jim Jeffries, in his memorable standup on American madness, says, “Why can’t you change the Second Amendment? It’s an amendment!”—as though further amending it were necessary to escape it. In point of historical and constitutional fact, nothing could be further from the truth: the only amendment necessary for gun legislation, on the local or national level, is the Second Amendment itself, properly understood, as it was for two hundred years in its plain original sense. This sense can be summed up in a sentence: if the Founders hadn’t wanted guns to be regulated, and thoroughly, they would not have put the phrase “well regulated” in the amendment. (A quick thought experiment: What if those words were not in the preamble to the amendment and a gun-sanity group wanted to insert them? Would the National Rifle Association be for or against this change? It’s obvious, isn’t it?) The confusion is contemporary. (And, let us hope, temporary.) It rises from the younger-than-springtime decision D.C. v. Heller, from 2008, when Justice Antonin Scalia, writing for a 5–4 majority, insisted that, whether he wanted it to or not, the Second Amendment protected an individual right to own a weapon. (A certain disingenuous show of disinterestedness is typical of his opinions.) This was an astounding constitutional reading, or misreading, as original as Citizens United, and as idiosyncratic as the reasoning in Bush v. Gore, which found a conclusive principle designed to be instantly discarded—or, for that matter, as the readiness among the court’s right wing to overturn a health-care law passed by a supermajority of the legislature over a typo. Anyone who wants to both grasp that decision’s radicalism and get a calm, instructive view of what the Second Amendment does say, and was intended to say, and was always before been understood to say, should read Justice John Paul Stevens’s brilliant, persuasive dissent in that case. Every person who despairs of the sanity of the country should read it, at least once, not just for its calm and irrefutable case-making but as a reminder of what sanity sounds like. Stevens, a Republican judge appointed by a Republican President, brilliantly analyzes the history of the amendment, making it plain that for Scalia, et al., to arrive at their view, they have to reference not the deliberations that produced the amendment but, rather, bring in British common law and lean on interpretations that arose long after the amendment was passed. Both “keep arms” and “bear arms,” he demonstrates, were, in the writers’ day, military terms used in military contexts. (Gary Wills has usefully illuminated this truth in the New York Review of Books.) The intent of the Second Amendment, Stevens explains, was obviously to secure “to the people a right to use and possess arms in conjunction with service in a well-regulated militia.” The one seemingly sound argument in the Scalia decision—that “the people” in the Second Amendment ought to be the same “people” referenced in the other amendments, that is, everybody—is exactly the interpretation that the preamble was meant to guard against. Stevens’s dissent should be read in full, but his conclusion in particular is clear and ringing: The right the Court announces [in Heller] was not “enshrined” in the Second Amendment by the Framers; it is the product of today’s law-changing decision. . . . Until today, it has been understood that legislatures may regulate the civilian use and misuse of firearms so long as they do not interfere with the preservation of a well-regulated militia. The Court’s announcement of a new constitutional right to own and use firearms for private purposes upsets that settled understanding . . . Justice Stevens and his colleagues were not saying, a mere seven years ago, that the gun-control legislation in dispute in Heller alone was constitutional within the confines of the Second Amendment. They were asserting that essentially every kind of legislation concerning guns in the hands of individuals was compatible with the Second Amendment—indeed, that regulating guns in individual hands was one of the purposes for which the amendment was offered. So there is no need to amend the Constitution, or to alter the historical understanding of what the Second Amendment meant. No new reasoning or tortured rereading is needed to reconcile the Constitution with common sense. All that is necessary for sanity to rule again, on the question of guns, is to restore the amendment to its commonly understood meaning as it was articulated by this wise Republican judge a scant few years ago. And all you need for that is one saner and, in the true sense, conservative Supreme Court vote. One Presidential election could make that happen. SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY NEWSLETTER: THE BEST OF THE NEW YORKER EVERY DAY. http://forms.aweber.com/form/01/1777196901.htm ENTER E-MAIL ADDRESS SIGN UP ShareTweet gopnick Adam Gopnik, a staff writer, has been contributing to The New Yorker since 1986. MORE » RELATED STO

Tuesday, January 19, 2016

GUN CONTROL

Is Obama In Conflict With The US Constitution

President Obama’s 2015 Executive Actions on Gun Control 1/5/2016

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Overview

On Jan. 5, 2016, President Obama unveiled his new strategy to curb gun violence in America. His proposals focus on new background check requirements that will enhance the effectiveness of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), and greater education and enforcement efforts of existing laws at the state level. As more information becomes available, this document will be updated. The 2015 plan:

Directs the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to require any business that engages in the sale of guns to obtain a federal license to do so and conduct background checks. This requirement applies to gun stores, sellers of guns at gun shows, and sellers of guns over the Internet. The licensing requirement applies to all sellers “engaged in the business” of selling guns, regardless of how frequent or how many sales there are. Failure to obtain a license to sell will carry criminal penalties of up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. Failure to conduct a required background check will also carry penalties.
Requires the ATF Bureau to issue a rule requiring background checks for purchasers of certain dangerous firearms and other items who purchase them through a trust, corporation or other legal entity. It will also issue a rule clarifying that gun dealers/licensees who ship firearms have the responsibility to notify law enforcement if their guns are lost or stolen in transit.
Encourages greater communications between federal and state authorities on criminal history information. The Obama administration seeks to increase the dialog with states to ensure the background check system is as comprehensive as it can be.
Instructs the FBI to overhaul the background check system to make it more efficient and accurate. Improvements include increasing personnel by 50 percent, modernize NICS to allow for background checks to be processed 24/7 and permit better notification of state and local authorities when certain prohibited persons attempt to buy a gun.
Calls for increased funding to ATF for the hiring of 200 new ATF agents and investigators to help enforce existing gun laws. ATF is also directed to establish an Internet Investigation Center with dedicated personnel to track illegal online firearms trafficking. The plan dedicates $4 million to and additional personnel to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.
Asks the attorney general to encourage federal U.S. attorneys to work with state and local authorities and groups to increase prevention of domestic violence and to prevent prohibited persons from obtaining firearms.
Proposes a $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care by increasing service capacity and the behavioral health workforce. The Department of Health and Human Services will finalize a rule removing legal barriers preventing states from reporting relevant information about people prohibited from possessing a gun for specific mental health reasons.
Requires inclusion of mental health information from the Social Security Administration (SSA) in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm. To this end. SSA will issue a rule to ensure that this information is reported to NICS. This rule will also include a waiver provision available to people seeking relief from the federal prohibition on possessing a firearm because of mental health reasons. Further details will be available upon issuance of this rule.
Directs the departments of Defense, Justice and Homeland Security to conduct or sponsor research into gun safety technology that would reduce the likelihood of accidental discharge or unauthorized use of a firearm. Requires that a strategy for real-world deployment of this technology be prepared within 90 days.
Calls upon state attorneys general to focus resources on eliminating the most dangerous and impactful cases in illegal gun trafficking, and violent offenders who bypass the background check system and purchase guns illegally.
Removes certain legal barriers preventing states from reporting information to NICS. HHS has been directed to clarify through a rule that certain Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act covered entities are permitted to provide limited demographic and other necessary information about people with mental illness who are prohibited from possessing a firearm to the NICS.

Overview | January 2013 Gun Proposal From President Obama

President Obama has unveiled a plan to address gun violence in the nation. The initiative consists of 23 executive actions and three presidential memoranda, most of which will require congressional approval. Many parts of the plan may have significant effects on states.

The plan:

Requires background checks for all gun sales and strengthens the background check system. This would include removing barriers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act so that states may more freely share information about mental health issues involving potential gun purchasers.
Provides states with monetary incentives—$20 million in fiscal year FY 2013 and a proposed $50 million in FY 2014—to share information so that records on criminal history and people prohibited from gun ownership due to mental health reasons are more available.
Bans military-style assault weapons and limits magazines to a capacity of 10 rounds.
Provides additional tools to law enforcement. The plan proposes a crackdown on gun trafficking by asking Congress to pass legislation that closes “loopholes” in gun trafficking laws and establishes strict penalties for “straw purchasers” who pass a background check and then pass guns on to prohibited people.
Urges Congress to pass the administration’s $4 billion proposal to keep 15,000 state and local police officers on the street to help deter gun crime.
Maximizes efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime. The president calls upon the attorney general to work with U.S. attorneys across the country to determine gaps occurring in this area and where supplemental resources are appropriate.
Provides training for “active shooter” situations to 14,000 law enforcement, first responders and school officials.
Directs the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services to issue a statement to health care providers that they are not prohibited by federal law from reporting threats of violence to the proper authorities.
Launches a national gun safety campaign to encourage responsible gun ownership and authorizes the Consumer Product Safety Commission to examine issues relating to gun safety locks.
Helps schools invest in safety. The president’s plan calls for more school resource officers and counselors in all schools through the Community Oriented Policing Services hiring program. The plan also calls for the federal government to assist schools in developing emergency management plans.
Improves mental health awareness through enhanced teacher training and referrals for treatment. The plan calls for the training of 5,000 additional mental health professionals nationwide. The plan also calls for coverage of mental health treatment under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008.

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