Report: After Failing to Get Gun Legislation Through Congress, Obama Preparing Executive Action

By Fred Lucas

The White House is planning to take executive action to close what they call the “gun-show loophole” by adding stricter background checks, according to new reports from the Los Angeles Times.

Addressing questions about the San Bernardino shooting, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said there is no timeline on the matter.

Earnest said the administration was still working on “scrubbing” the laws to see what authority the president had to act without Congress on gun regulations.

Obama previously sought legislation after the Newtown, Connecticut, school shooting, but a proposal on stricter background checks failed to pass even a Democratic Senate in 2013.

Administration officials say they have looked at successful state and local efforts to reduce gun violence, which, they say, includes closing the so-called gun-show loophole.

“But taking administrative action in this space is enormously complicated, with complex and intertwined policy, legal and operational considerations to take into account,” a …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze