The following is a list, provided by the White House, of executive actions President Obama plans to take to address gun violence.
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.
Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/gun-control/2013/01/16/obamas-23-executive-actions-guns#ixzz2I9xuizHz
Thx for getting these up fast, good job. Reads like carte blanche for more survellance state!
ReplyDeleteAgreed, I was posting while our Learless Feeder was still talikng.
ReplyDelete#4 & #21 - They going after Vets with PTSD if you ask me. Ya know he wants to disarm the vets that would stand up to him.
ReplyDeleteAnd for #17... a healthcare provider has a moral obligation to report and and all suicidal or homicidal thoughts to law enforcement. But they wont because that means the patient would not be seeing them when they are locked up and they wont make thier money.
You know the VA, "Official policy" is nobody is "Sane" enough to have a gun cause we say so and we're the VA.
ReplyDeleteWe will poision you with HIV during a colonoscopy, give you HEP from not using one insulin pin for the same patient, take 30 years to process a claim.
We are the VA, we know best!
Being honest I have a great neurologist, podiatrist, and had a great surgeon when they fixed my broken ass neck. HOWEVER, they were all part-time civilian contract docs to fill open slots, and had lucritive practices ans didn't need VA money.