White House press secretary Jen Psaki confirmed on Friday that President Biden plans to sign executive arms control orders.
Psaki replied “Yes” to a journalist’s question about whether reporters should “be waiting for executive orders from the president on firearm measures.”
But she said the timing was unclear due to a review process.
“When the president was vice president in the Obama-Biden administration, he helped to implement 23 executive actions to combat armed violence. It is one of the levers that we can use, ”said Psaki at his daily press conference.
The new impulse for gun control by Democrats follows the murders on Monday of 10 people in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. Last week, a sniper killed eight at massage parlors in the Atlanta area.
According to recent reports.
The requests reported under consideration are not necessarily applicable to recent shootings.
The suspected Atlanta sniper, Robert Long, 21, bought a semi-automatic firearm from a drug dealer after undergoing a background check on the day of the murders. Boulder’s suspected sniper, Ahmad Al Aliwi Alissa, also 21, bought a Ruger AR-556 pistol after undergoing a background check six days before the attack.
Biden called for gun control legislation on Tuesday in a speech at the White House, but significant reforms are unlikely to pass the divided Senate, where 60 votes are generally required to pass bills.
Thirty-five Senate Democrats introduced legislation this month to ban “assault weapons”, including popular semi-automatic weapons, such as AR-15 rifles. But it is not likely to pass. Bipartisan legislation previously failed to expand mandatory background checks to cover private arms transfers between non-traders.
As vice president, Biden led a federal arms control task force formed in late 2012 after the mass murder of 27 at a Connecticut elementary school. At the time, Biden gave advice on weapons that lawyers said could violate existing laws, including encouraging people to shoot in the air and through closed doors to combat potential threats.
