{"id":63680,"date":"2016-01-05T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63680"},"modified":"2016-01-05T10:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T15:45:00","slug":"white-house-new-executive-actions-to-reduce-gun-violence-and-make-our-communities-safer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63680","title":{"rendered":"White House: New Executive Actions to Reduce Gun Violence and Make Our Communities Safer"},"content":{"rendered":"

As promised, the White House<\/a> released their proposal to enact a new Executive Order to increase gun control on gun buyers who obey the law. Aside from asking States politely to participate in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) it really does nothing to prevent gun violence. It says that more gun dealers will be bound to do back ground checks, so I’m sure the FBI will be getting a lot of requests from darkened parking lots and alleyways from guys selling guns from the trunks of their cars. The plan also restricts firearm sales on the internet. A show of hands; how many of you folks have purchased firearms on the internet without background checks? Yeah, me neither. Nor have I bought a gun at a Gun SHow when I didn’t go through NICS background checks.<\/p>\n

ATF has established an Internet Investigation Center to track illegal online firearms trafficking and is dedicating $4 million and additional personnel to enhance the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The Administration is proposing a new $500 million investment to increase access to mental health care.<\/p>\n

The Social Security Administration has indicated that it will begin the rulemaking process to include information in the background check system about beneficiaries who are prohibited from possessing a firearm for mental health reasons.<\/p>\n

[…]<\/p>\n

The President has directed the Departments of Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security to conduct or sponsor research into gun safety technology.<\/p>\n

The President has also directed the departments to review the availability of smart gun technology on a regular basis, and to explore potential ways to further its use and development to more broadly improve gun safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Basically, they’re just throwing money at the fringes of the problem. When the government involves itself into “smart-anything-technology” it will probably too smart for any of us citizens. They’re going to hire more people to answer phones at NICS, but if they don’t do their jobs, as in the case with the South Carolina shooting last summer, it doesn’t matter how many of them there are. They’re also hiring 200 more ATF agents for enforcement. In an environment where prosecutors are willing to trade off firearms charges in favor of other criminal charges in deals with criminals, enforcement doesn’t help.<\/p>\n

The only thing I see that might be helpful is;<\/p>\n

Remove unnecessary legal barriers preventing States from reporting relevant information to the background check system. Although States generally report criminal history information to NICS, many continue to report little information about individuals who are prohibited by Federal law from possessing or receiving a gun for specific mental health reasons. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We’ll see how that works out, but I don’t have much hope. Mostly, I see this as a stop-gap for legislative action and just another step towards confiscation – when this doesn’t stop the next mass shooting or terrorist attack, the gun grabbers will claim that confiscation is the only option left for them to pursue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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