In a closed-door meeting with 16 mayors earlier this week, the president “vowed to continue doing everything in his power to combat gun violence through executive action,” and he made good on that promise today by announcing two new executive actions to accompany the 23 he signed in January.
AP Exclusive: Obama offers new gun control steps http://t.co/h2bzCPcY9n
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) August 29, 2013
The new gun control measures didn’t draw much media attention today, but the White House, assisted by the Associated Press, did its best to couch them as “offerings.” The administration’s deputy director of communications, for example, announced the arrival of “new actions to improve gun safety.”
TODAY: Obama offers new gun control steps (via AP) http://t.co/LY3XY7jsEV. More from @VP at 10:15 in Roosevelt Room.
— E. Schultz -Archived (@Schultz44) August 29, 2013
Read about today's new actions to improve gun safety MT @schultz44 Obama and Biden offer new gun measures (via @AP) http://t.co/b7nPh4NRBF
— K Beirne Fallon NARA (@Katie44) August 29, 2013
In a Facebook post, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) instead called the executive actions another end-run around Congress that “flies in the face of Texans and the American people.”
Cornyn on new WH gun actions: "The President’s end-around Congress to impose new gun control measures flies in the… http://t.co/tYXhxB4m58
— Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) August 29, 2013
Robert Laurie of CainTV.com called the two executive actions, which cover reimportation of U.S. military weapons and registration of machine guns and short-barrel shotguns to a trust or company, “a big bunch of nothing,” noting, “We’re sure that all those murderers in Chicago and Detroit — who’ve obviously acquired their automatic AK-47’s by registering them to a trust — are disappointed.”
RT @BestofCain: Obama issues two new worthless gun control executive orders http://t.co/hwL5gfh61P
— Herman Cain (@THEHermanCain) August 29, 2013
https://twitter.com/TxAv8r/status/373224863562878976
Even Piers “Musket” Morgan couldn’t find it in himself to celebrate these new “gun safety offerings.”
Fiddling while Rome burns > RT @politico White House announces new action on gun control, via @politico44: http://t.co/MMKUt03PQw
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) August 29, 2013
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