AP Analysis: Obama Executive Actions Wouldn’t Have Kept Guns From Mass Shooters

By Chris Enloe

WASHINGTON (TheBlaze/AP) — The new gun control measures announced by President Barack Obama on Tuesday would not have prevented many of the mass shooting during his two terms as president, including the slaughter of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Connecticut, in Dec. 2012.

Obama’s executive action expands mandatory background checks to gun shows, flea markets and online sales, adds more than 230 examiners and staff to help process them and calls on states to submit accurate and updated criminal history data.

Those measures are seen as crucial to stemming gun suicides – the cause of two-thirds of gun deaths – by blocking immediate access to weapons. But, an Associated Press review shows, they would have had no impact in keeping weapons from the hands of suspects in several of the deadliest recent mass shootings that have spurred calls for tighter gun control.

The shooters at Sandy Hook and San Bernardino used weapons bought by others, shielding them from background checks. In other cases, the shooters legally bought guns.

In Aurora, Colorado, and at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., men undergoing mental health …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze