Obama plans go-it-alone strategy to dodge Congress and expand background checks to curb renegade gun violence
President travelling to Roseburg, Oregon on Friday to meet with families of the Oct. 1 mass murder at community college that killed nine people plus the gunman
Obama considering responding to the latest in a series of mass shootings by using executive authority to increase background checks for gun sales from high-volume dealers
Congress has resisted such moves in the past, but presidential advisors say the move is legal
By J. Taylor Rushing, U.s. Political Reporter
Dailymail.com
9 October 2015
Frustrated by the long, deadly string of mass murders by mentally ill gunmen on his watch in the U.S., President Obama is considering dodging an equally frustrating Congress and imposing crackdown measures through executive action.
Obama is deciding whether to require gun dealers who exceed a certain volume of sales to get a special license from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms – and then perform background checks on would-be buyers.
Such a move would effectively rewrite the ATF’s definition of firearm businessmen, and has been vetted by White House lawyers as within the president’s executive authority and not reliant on congressional approval, according to The Washington Post.
Obama on Friday was flying to Oregon to meet with families of the victims of the Oct. 1 mass murder at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg.
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