--- title: President Obama Plans Executive Actions on Gun Control description: The recommendations will be rolled out over the next "several days," Obama said canonical: https://time.com/4166608/president-obama-executive-actions-gun-control/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-04T20:32:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-05T08:41:26.234Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama Plans Executive Actions on Gun Control og:description: The recommendations will be rolled out over the next "several days," Obama said og:url: https://time.com/4166608/president-obama-executive-actions-gun-control/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8f994cc76d3c2d1/6988777be20a87c154a8ee2b/obama1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5217 og:image:height: 2935 og:image:alt: Barack Obama, Loretta Lynch, og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: President Obama Plans Executive Actions on Gun Control twitter:description: The recommendations will be rolled out over the next "several days," Obama said twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd8f994cc76d3c2d1/6988777be20a87c154a8ee2b/obama1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # President Obama Plans Executive Actions on Gun Control > Sponsored content. 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The President is reportedly focusing on a loophole that has allowed for some gun sales to occur without background checks, though he did not give details in his brief remarks after sitting down with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, FBI director James Comey and ATF deputy director Thomas Brandon. Obama said he’d received a report from the officials that included recommendations on the steps their offices can take to combat gun violence. “These are not only recommendations that are well within my legal authority and the executive branch, but they’re also ones that the overwhelming majority of the American people, including gun owners, support,” he said. Polls on the issue have varied. A [CNN/ORC poll ](http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/21/politics/gun-control-poll-americans/)released shortly after the mass shooting at a community college in Oregon in the fall found that the majority of Americans (52%) opposed stricter gun control measures, while 46% supported them. But a [Reuters poll](http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-guns-idUSL1N14O0G120160104), also in the fall of 2015, found that 65% of respondents thought it was important for gun control to be addressed. The President said that while the changes won’t solve all of America’s issues with gun control, he believes the soon-to-be-announced measures will “potentially save lives and spare families” from pain. He said the recommendations do not violate the Second Amendment, something Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump flagged as a potential problem in a recent interview. Obama is kicking off his final year in office by focusing on gun control, an issue he’s struggled to make traction on while in office. Despite Obama’s efforts, Congress has not taken steps to tighten gun control in the wake of mass shootings. And even before Obama has publicly detailed his executive actions, they are already facing backlash from Republicans on the campaign trail and in Congress who have criticized the President’s use of his executive authority to address the issue. “The President is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will,”said Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) in a statement. ## Transcript It's a crime that would have horrified us had its victims been Americans of any background. But it's all the more heartbreaking and all the more despicable because the place where it occurred and the patriots who were its victims. Those who have been injured, we are rooting for them. And I know Gabby is as tough as they come. And I am hopeful that she is going to pull through. We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil, is senseless. The majority of those who died today were children. Beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. We are confronting yet another mass shooting, and today it happen on a military installation in our nation's capital. Our thoughts and prayer were, are with the entire community. And we are gonna do everything we can to make sure that the community at Fort Hood has what it needs to deal with the current situation. There is something particularly heart breaking about a death happening in a place in which we seek solace. And you see peace. Somehow this has become routine. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] The reporting is routine, my response here at this podium ends up being routine. We've become numb to this. We have a pattern now of, of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world and there's some steps we could take not to eliminate every one of these mass shootings but to improve the odds that they don't happen as frequently. 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