Holland&Holland wrote:Link does not work. Did he sign this order?
No(t Yet)
Obama Expected to Close Gun Show Loophole by Executive Order
By Paul Barrett
Bloomberg News
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
(Published in print: Tuesday, December 29, 2015)
New York — The next shoe to drop on gun control may come by mid-January, when President Obama is expected to issue an executive order requiring everyone “in the business” of selling firearms to perform background checks.
Wait a second, you might be saying. Doesn’t federal law already oblige gun retailers to do computerized criminal checks via the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s data base? Yes and no.
Yes, when it comes to federally licensed dealers. But no, when you’re talking about people who lack federal licenses and sell guns from their personal collections.
An awful lot of firearms are sold in the latter fashion by individuals who aren’t technically gun retailers but who sell weapons at weekend gun shows or from their homes. Forthcoming research by the Harvard School of Public Health estimates that 40 percent of all gun transfers occur without background checks (that’s the so-called gun show loophole)....
http://www.vnews.com/news/nation/world/20259390-95/obama-expected-to-close-gun-show-loophole-by-executive-order