President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to appear in Monterey Park on Tuesday, March 14, issued a new executive order aimed at reducing gun violence before arriving in Los Angeles County.
Biden is expected to sign the order Tuesday in Monterey Park, just about two months after a gunman killed 11 people at the Star Dance Studio during Lunar New Year festivities.
The executive order instructs the attorney general to ensure gun sellers are conducting background checks as required under law and clarify just who can be “engaged in the business” of dealing firearms. These efforts will ensure fewer guns will be obtained by felons or domestic abusers, senior administration officials told reporters Monday.
Here is the complete text of the executive order, released by the White House early Tuesday:
March 14, 2023 (The White House)
EXECUTIVE ORDER
REDUCING GUN VIOLENCE AND MAKING OUR COMMUNITIES SAFER
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order as follows:
Section 1. Policy. Every few days in the United States, we mourn a new mass shooting. Daily acts of gun violence — including community violence, domestic violence, suicide, and accidental shootings — may not always make the evening news, but they too cut lives short and leave survivors and their communities with long-lasting physical and mental wounds. We cannot accept these facts as the enduring reality of life in America. Instead, we must together insist that we have had enough, and that we will no longer allow the interests of the gun manufacturers to win out over the safety of our children and Nation.
It is the policy of my Administration that executive departments and agencies (agencies) will pursue every legally available and appropriate action to reduce gun violence. Through this whole-of-government approach, my Administration has made historic progress to save lives. My Administration has taken action to keep…
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