{"id":292613,"date":"2021-03-23T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=292613"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:45:58","slug":"psaki-biden-considering-executive-action-on-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-biden-considering-executive-action-on-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki: Biden Considering Executive Action On Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-biden-considering-executive-action-on-guns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=292613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2757.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday afternoon that President Joe Biden is considering \u201cexecutive action\u201d on gun control, effectively bypassing Congress to push an anti-gun rights agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at her daily press conference, Psaki said Biden was considering a \u201crange of options\u201d but that the use of an executive order was not off the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are considering a range of levers, including working through legislation, including executive action,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cThat has been under discussion and will continue to be under discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki added that, as Vice President under then-president Barack Obama, Biden was tasked with researching whether and how a White House executive order could be used to curb gun rights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe as vice president was leading the effort on determining executive actions that could be taken on gun safety measures, it\u2019s something that he has worked on, he\u2019s passionate about, he feels personally connected to. But there\u2019s an ongoing process and I think we feel we have to work on multiple channels at the same time,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Tuesday, President Biden delivered remarks on the subject of gun control, but steered clear of the topic of executive action, instead choosing to press Congress to pass a pair of House bills expanding federal background checks on weapons purchases and closing the so-called \u201cgun show loophole\u201d which Democrats claim allows individuals to purchase weapons from certain sellers at certain events without an investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Biden also stressed a need to outlaw \u201cassault weapons\u201d and \u201chigh capacity magazines\u201d but did not give details on how he would address either, nor specifics on what he considered an assault weapon or a high capacity magazine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got that done as a senator. It brought down mass shootings, we can do it again,\u201d Biden said Tuesday, referring to the 1990s-era assault weapons ban that expired under President George W. Bush. \u201cWe can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t need to wait another minute, let alone an hour, to take common-sense steps that will save lives in the future. And to urge my colleagues in the House and Senate to act. We can ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines in this country once again,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>The House and Senate have no gun bans pending, however. The Senate Judiciary Committee is currently holding hearings to determine whether there is a future for gun control legislation in Congress, but Democrats hold only a narrow Senate majority, and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), the key swing vote, largely sides with Republicans on gun rights issues.<\/p>\n<p>It is also not clear what Biden could accomplish on the issue of gun control through executive action. Executive actions are tricky, and one that would curb an explicit constitutional right would be trickier still. Previously, the White House has proposed very limited executive orders on guns, specifically orders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/biden-gun-safety-pandemic-471064\">requiring background checks for home-made<\/a>, 3D printed, or makeshift guns known as \u201cghost guns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Senators were pressuring the White House to close another background check loophole, the so-called \u201cCharleston loophole\u201d that \u201callows a gun to be transferred from licensed gun dealers before a completed background check,\u201d but \u201cBiden aides were reluctant,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/02\/23\/biden-gun-safety-pandemic-471064\">per Politico.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday afternoon that President Joe Biden is considering \u201cexecutive action\u201d on gun control, effectively bypassing Congress to push an anti-gun rights agenda.Speaking at &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2311018,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2757.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki: Biden Considering Executive Action On Guns","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-2757.jpeg?w=1200&h=800&ixlib=react-9.0.3","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki: Biden Considering Executive Action On Guns","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2311018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}