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AL.com - Ahead of a national address Tuesday, the White House is releasing details of its planned executive order related to tightening restrictions on firearms.

In a series of documents posted to its website, the Obama administration outlines the regulations, which include an increase in the number of background checks required for firearms purchases.

"Gun violence has taken a heartbreaking toll on too many communities across the country," the White House document noted. "Over the past decade in America, more than 100,000 people have been killed as a result of gun violence—and millions more have been the victim of assaults, robberies, and other crimes involving a gun."

The provisions are:

Closes 'gun-show' loophole

Require gun dealers, whether they sell in a store, at gun shows or over the internet, to conduct background checks on those wanting to purchase a firearm. The administration is not setting a limit on the number of transactions someone can make before they are considered a "gun dealer" but notes that "even a few transactions" can be enough to require a license and a background check. Failure to obtain a license can result in up to five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.

Close loophole related to trust and corporate purchases

The National Firearms Act restricts sale of weapons such as machine guns and sawed-off shotguns. In recent years, individuals have been able to avoid background checks by purchasing these weapons through trusts, corporations or other legal entities. The number of these types of applications grew from fewer than 900 in 2000 to more than 90,000 in 2014, the White House said. The order will require people purchasing these weapons through trusts or other legal entities to undergo a background check.

State participation

Obama said Attorney General Loretta Lynch has written a letter to states urging them to provide complete information, such as criminal history, to the federal database that's used for background checks. The AG's office is also asking states to increase communications with anti-domestic violence agencies.

Streamline background check system

In 2015, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System received more than 22.2 million background checks, an average of about 63,000 per day. Under current law, if a background check isn't returned within three days, a dealer can move ahead with the sale. To speed up and modernize NCIS, the order directs the FBI to hire more than 230 staffers - a move that would double staff size - and complete technical updates to the database. The goal is for background checks to be processed 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Lost or stolen guns

The order also stipulates requirements related to what happens if a gun is lost or stolen while in transit to a firearms dealer. Dealers are required to report lost or stolen weapons from their inventory but the laws related to guns that go missing during transit aren't as clear. Under the new order, the licensee shipping the gun will be responsible for reporting it missing or stolen.

Mental health services

The White House is proposing to spend $500 million for increased mental healthcare services. Other provisions include reporting of Social Security information to the background check system, a move designed to keep those with mental health issues or who receive disability payments due to mental impairment from purchasing firearms.

Gun technology

The president is issuing a memorandum to the Department of Defense, Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to increase research into gun safety technology. The memo also directs the agencies to promote the use and acquisition of new firearm technology.

Increased personnel, other measures

The White House said the president's 2017 budget will include funding for 200 new Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents to enforce gun laws. Another $4 million will go towards enhancements to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, which tracks evidence that can be used to link gun-related crimes.



We can all sleep better at night.

Who does he think he is? Bush?

It's all beginning to sound similar to the MJ Tax Stamp program attempted many years ago. The premise was you could legally own MJ as long as you paid a tax on what it was worth and received a tax stamp. Problem was you had to possess the MJ first to buy the stamp, but purchasing and/or growing the MJ was illegal. No Tax Stamps where ever issued.

None of the new laws would have prevented any of the recent attacks or mass murders. Ask Chicago.

Seems to me the biggest problem here is the abuse of executive order. We supposedly live in a democracy, that seems to be slipping away. I believe that background checks should be performed on all gun sales, but not like this. We have a system off law that must be followed. I hope that his end run fails miserably.

You have always been required to have an FFL to be in the gun selling business, period. Let that soak in, there is no loophole.

The highlighted part is a problem. What they are doing is setting a trap for someone that sells their gun to an individual in their state, something that current law makes 100% legal.

i learn of a new, fake "loophole" everytime this moron opens his mouth and two more when i hear hilary vomit out her rhetoric

you dont want to know

I challenge ANYONE on this site to obtain a FFL, good luck with that. First they'll make it impossible to get the license (damn near already) and then go to work on the current license holders. They're already trying to force current license holders out of business. So, no licensed sellers = no firearms purchases period. All the libs really want is YOUR guns and they'll use ANY means possible to get them.

I don't see much that is not reasonable. I knew someone would claim that the government wants to take your guns.

Go ahead Tony, TRY to get a FFL. Report back when you get it. I know you wont get a license because you CAN'T and neither can anyone else that doesn't own a storefront to buy and sell from. How many private individuals will qualify? Answer = 0

When it comes to executive orders, Obama is an amateur:

FDR 3,522
Wilson 1,803
Eisenhower 484
Reagen 381
"W" 291
Obama 175 + today's total.

Executive order are politically anoying. But they are as leagal as buying a Glock....

Yes...only a couple days into his LAST year in office and he's already Crying for more gun control

Well maybe because they don't / can't manufacture Meth with yer bullets...i dunno

Meth kills

OK, but who's gonna sift through a little more than 6,000 of them for us?

Go ahead, find one that is demonstratedly out side of the law.

I double dog dare you....

No. Blue waffle.

So what y'all are saying is, I need to go buy all the guns and ammo I can RIGHT NOW, right?

Sure seems that way as the two local gun shpos I passed by this evening had fuller parking lots than normal on a weekday night.

These feel good, baseless laws will do nothing to stop the urban yutes from slaughtering each other in the womb or in the streets. Further, these stupid measures would have changed nothing in regards to the recent mass shootings.

Well we seem to want to "do something" because we "should do something" and that is what obumski is reaching for. Regardless of whether it will be effective or not. Regardless of whether it even makes sense. Regardless of the countless laws on the books that affect criminals but are not enforced. Regardless of the constitution.

With a growing government and apparently non existent checks/balances law abiding civilians are a soft target. Unilateral decrees by activist abc organization heads, judges, presidents, etc that become defacto laws are not how our republic was designed. These are dangerous precedents that are being set. People on both sides of the issue should be outraged that the proper channels are not being used even if a percentage of them (the libs) "feel we just need to do something." Today you and others are smiling because the tyranny is to your liking but tomorrow it may not be so.

I see the left wing nuts are already out defending the head clown.
So far nothing that obama has proposed would have stopped any of the shootings the head clown was crying about today, but let's not let facts get in the way his left nut case agenda.
Was looking today at homicides stats for 2012. Out of the almost 9,000 homicides, 21% were committed in 11 cities alone. Those 11 cities are run by democrats, and are largely committed by non-whites. Just about all of those cities have very strict gun control laws.
I would venture to guess, that very few of those guns that were used, were purchased legally. So my question is, when is the head clown going to address this problem of gun violence in these cities being committed by people with unlawful guns? Requiring the average Joe to get an FFL license to sell some of his hunting rifles, isn't going to fix this problem.
Another thing to think about. If you now know, that if you go see a doctor, and talk to him about getting help for depression, or anxiety, that you might be put on a list and not be able to buy a gun, are you going to see that doctor now? If you are one of our Veteran's, and think that you might be suffering from PTSD, are you going to want to talk to someone, knowing that your 2nd Amendment rights might be taken away?

The way it really is: Liberals see a problem with growing death by guns and want to do something about it. Conservatives deny the problem and do nothing and claim that nothing proposed will work while saying the government is going to take your guns.

I agree that Obama should be doing more.

However executive orders are part of the plan - not tyranny....
Unless they are the orders Bush gave.

Maybe because the growing death by guns, is caused by ..........other democrat voters and the liberals can't just point that out without demonizing their base and being called.... Racists.

see my post above for a thorough answer

but a cliffs notes version is that an executive order to start a committee is a lot different than one targeting the bill of rights

You mean there is already a law that says you can't go into a school and short kids? I would think if there was a law against it, then people would obey it. I know, let's make 11 more laws that say you can't do that. People will believe we really mean it if there is a dozen laws that say the same thing. No, wait. Does it have to be s bakers dozen (13 for the liberals to understand) for people to take us seriously?
I bet in Baltimore right now, there is a guy name Huggy Bear, who is saying "Damn, now I have to get my FFL, before I sell another gun to Bo and Luke Duke from the trunk of my Huggy Mobile". I bet he is looking at all of the AR-15's in the back seat and thinking he needs to start pushing them, since no AR-15 has been used to shoot anyone in Baltimore in years. Maybe have a sale, throw in a free bayonet.

=d> Well done Joe.....well done

Yea, but he is a liberal. If their lips are moving, they are lying.