--- title: Gun Control: Obama to Meet Attorney General Loretta Lynch description: The two will meet to discuss executive actions on firearms canonical: https://time.com/4165221/obama-guns-attorney-general/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-01T14:41:48.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:43:09.311Z article:section: Politics og:title: Gun Control: Obama to Meet Attorney General Loretta Lynch og:description: The two will meet to discuss executive actions on firearms og:url: https://time.com/4165221/obama-guns-attorney-general/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d030d18cd348d5b/69887748524fc07f34df61db/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: WASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 18: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks to the media during his year end news conference in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House December 18, 2015 in Washington, DC. Later today, Obama will travel to San Bernardino, Califor og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Gun Control: Obama to Meet Attorney General Loretta Lynch twitter:description: The two will meet to discuss executive actions on firearms twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d030d18cd348d5b/69887748524fc07f34df61db/barack-obama.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Obama to Discuss Gun Control Plans With Attorney General by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 1, 2016 2:41 PM UTC  President Barack Obama speaks to the media during his year end news conference in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Dec. 18, 2015. President Barack Obama speaks to the media during his year end news conference in the Brady Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Dec. 18, 2015.Alex Wong—Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 1, 2016 2:41 PM UTC President Barack Obama will meet Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Monday to discuss plans for the introduction of gun controls, he [announced in his weekly address](https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2016/01/01/weekly-address-making-america-safer-our-children). “I get too many letters from parents, and teachers, and kids, to sit around and do nothing,” Obama said, adding that tackling the U.S. epidemic of gun violence was “one piece of unfinished business.” It comes after [Lynch told NBC’s Meet The Press last month](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/ag-lynch-president-will-call-congress-take-action-guns-san-n475046) that Obama would specifically call on Congress to review certain gun control measures, especially in the wake of the San Bernardino massacre. 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