The executive order seeks to increase the number of background checks to buy guns, promote better and more secure firearms storage, and more.
"Too many lives have been taken by gun violence," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. "But he believes we need to do more. You’ll hear him call on Congress to take action and not to stop ... that we need to continue."Wayne Jones, the only child of Buffalo mass shooting victim Celestine Chaney, spoke directly to the killer responsible for his family's pain, during a sentencing hearing on Feb. 15, 2023.
Biden, in the order, acknowledged Congress' opposition, but said, "In the meantime, my Administration will continue to do all that we can, within existing authority, to make our communities safer." Biden is also mandating better reporting of ballistics data from federal law enforcement for a clearinghouse that allows federal, state and local law enforcement to match shell casings to guns. But local and state law enforcement agencies are not required to report ballistics data, and many do not, making the clearinghouse less effective.
The bill passed last year, known as the Safer Communities Act, is viewed by gun control advocates as a good start but one that doesn't go far enough. After the law was signed, there were 11 other mass shootings, according to a database of mass killings since 2006 maintained by The Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University. Those killings don't include shootings in which fewer than four people were killed — and gun violence is also rising nationwide.
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