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Joe Biden-Kamala Harris Administration announces Initial Actions to Address the Gun Violence Public Health Epidemic
Gun violence takes lives and leaves a lasting legacy of trauma in communities every single day in this country, even when it is not on the nightly news. In fact, cities across the country are in the midst of a historic spike in homicides, violence that disproportionately impacts Black and brown Americans. The President is committed to taking action to reduce all forms of gun violence – community violence, mass shootings, domestic violence, and suicide by firearm. President Joe Biden is reiterating his call for Congress to pass legislation to reduce gun violence. Last month, a bipartisan coalition in the House passed two bills to close loopholes in the gun background check system. Congress should close those loopholes and go further, including by closing “boyfriend” and stalking loopholes that currently allow people found by the courts to be abusers to possess firearms, banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines, repealing gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and investing in evidence-based community violence interventions. Congress should also pass an appropriate national “red flag” law, as well as legislation incentivizing states to pass “red flag” laws of their own. But this Administration will not wait for Congress to act to take its own steps – fully within the Administration’s authority and the Second Amendment – to save lives. The Administration is announcing the following six initial actions: The U.S. Justice Department, within 30 days, will issue a proposed rule to help stop the proliferation of “ghost guns.” The U.S. Justice Department, within 60 days, will issue a proposed rule to make clear when a device marketed as a stabilizing brace effectively turns a pistol into a short-barreled rifle subject to the requirements of the National Firearms Act.
The U.S. Justice Department, within 60 days, will publish model “red flag” legislation for states. In the interim, the Justice Department’s published model legislation will make it easier for states that want to adopt red flag laws to do so. The Administration is investing in evidence-based community violence interventions.
The U.S. Justice Department will issue an annual report on firearms trafficking. Since the report’s publication, states, local, and federal policymakers have relied on its data to better thwart the common channels of firearms trafficking. But there is good reason to believe that firearms trafficking channels have changed since 2000, for example due to the emergence of online sales and proliferation of “ghost guns.”
The U.S. Justice Department will issue a new, comprehensive report on firearms trafficking and annual updates necessary to give policymakers the information they need to help address firearms trafficking today. The President will nominate David Chipman to serve as Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. SectionsPoliticsTopicsAmerican Jobs Plan, ATF, Boulder CO, Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives, Congress, guns, Homicide, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Medicaid, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Justice Department, U.S. President, U.S. Vice President, Washington D.C. |
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