Here Are The 23 Executive Orders On Gun Safety Signed Today By The President

President Obama has signed 23 executive orders
designed to address the problem of gun violence
in America. The following are the items
addressed:
Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions:
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 itwidely
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 effectiveuse of new
gun safety technologies and challenge the
private sector to developinnovative 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 does not appear that any of the executive
orders would have any impact on the guns
people currently own-or would like to purchase-
and that all proposals regarding limiting the
availability of assault weapons or large
ammunition magazines will be proposed for
Congressional action. As such, any potential
effort to create a constitutional crisis—or the
leveling of charges that the White House has
overstepped its executive authority—would hold
no validity.