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  • President Barack Obama announces 23 executive actions on gun control, separately asks Congress to pass gun-control laws<br style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
  • Obama asks Congress to pass laws that would: require background checks on all gun sales; restore a ban on "military-style assault weapons"; ban gun magazines with capacities of more than 10 rounds; and toughen penalties on people who sell guns to those who can't have them
  • Below are the latest updates as they come to us. Also, you can read our full story.

[updated at 12:43 p.m. ET] Senate Democratic leadership sources tell CNN that passing any new legislation will be extremely difficult because more than a dozen vulnerable Democrats from conservative states will probably resist much of what the president is pushing, according to CNN's Dana Bash.

These Democratic sources say the most likely legislation to pass will be strengthening background checks, since it is the least overt form of gun control and it also appeals to gun rights advocates' emphasis on keeping guns away from people with mental health and criminal problems.

[updated at 12:42 p.m. ET] Reaction to Obama's announcement is starting to come in. From Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, whose state was the site of the December 14 school massacre that prompted Obama to examine gun control steps:

"In the hours after the worst of our fears were confirmed, in the midst of the grief and sorrow over the loss of 20 innocent children and six dedicated educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School, there was one question on the minds of people across Connecticut and around the nation: How do we make sure this never happens again? Today the president took the critical first step toward answering that question. The common sense measures he proposed today are something that we should all be able to agree on, and I want to commend him and the vice president for their work on this issue."

From Michael Steel, spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner:

"House committees of jurisdiction will review these recommendations. And if the Senate passes a bill, we will also take a look at that."

[updated at 12:22 p.m. ET] The announcement is over, and Obama is signing the 23 executive actions. These actions are in addition to laws that Obama wants Congress to pass. Here, according to the White House, are the 23 executive actions that he and his administration will do:

1. "Issue a presidential memorandum to require federal agencies to make relevant data available to the federal background check system."

2. "Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system."

3. "Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system."

4. "Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks."

5. "Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun."

6. "Publish a letter from ATF to federally licensed gun dealers providing guidance on how to run background checks for private sellers."

7. "Launch a national safe and responsible gun ownership campaign."

8. "Review safety standards for gun locks and gun safes (Consumer Product Safety Commission)."

9. "Issue a presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations."

10. "Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement."

11. "Nominate an ATF director."

12. "Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations."

13. "Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime."

14. "Issue a presidential memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes and prevention of gun violence."

15. "Direct the attorney general to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies."

16. "Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes."

17. "Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities."

18. "Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers."

19. "Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education."

20. "Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover."

21. "Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges."

22. "Commit to finalizing mental health parity regulations."

23. "Launch a national dialogue led by Secretaries Sebelius and Duncan on mental health."

[updated at 12:17 p.m. ET] Obama says he acknowledges that Americans have certain unalienable rights, but with those rights come responsibilities, and that Americans are "responsible for each other." These rights including those to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were denied to victims of high profile shooting such as those at Virginia Tech last decade and the December 14 shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.

Obama called for public pressure on Congress and the gun lobby to push for stronger steps against gun violence, saying "the only way we can change is if the American people demand it."

"Let's do the right thing ... for (shooting victims) and for the country that we love so much. Thank you. I'm going to sign these orders," he said.

[updated at 12:10 p.m. ET] More details on what Obama said about the 23 executive actions he's poised to take: The actions, he said, include those that would strengthening background checks on gun sales and expand safety programs in schools.

He hasn't said what all of the 23 actions would do.

[updated at 12:09 p.m. ET] Obama says he will nominate B. Todd Jones, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as its permanent chief. The agency has lacked a permanent leader for six years.

[updated at 12:07 p.m. ET] Obama says he will sign 23 executive orders relating to this issue today.

He also will ask Congress to pass laws, including ones that would:

– require universal background checks (background checks on anyone who would buy a gun, whether in stores or at auctions and conventions)

– restore a ban on "military-style assault weapons"

– ban gun magazines with capacities of more than 10 rounds

– tougher penalties on people who sell guns to people who aren't allowed to have guns

[updated at 11:59 a.m. ET] President Obama has started to speak, and he's thanking Biden for his work to recommend gun-control steps in the past couple of weeks.

Obama also is acknowledging four children who are sitting being and to the left of his podium. These children were asked to attend the announcement because they wrote letters to Obama after the December 14 shooting at a Newtown, Connecticut, school.

The nation should be motivated to keep children such as these from harm, he said. "Their voices should compel us to change," and that's why he asked Biden to come up with recommendations that the country should execute "right now" to curb gun violence, Obama said.

[updated at 11:56 a.m. ET] "The world has changed and it is demanding action, it is in this context that the president" asked me to come up gun-control recommendations, Biden said.

Some of the recommendations that Biden's task force gave to Obama on Monday include executive orders that the president can make without congressional approval, Biden said.

[updated at 11:53 a.m. ET] Vice President Joe Biden has begun the event with an acknowledgement of the December massacre at a Connecticut elementary school, where 20 children and six women were killed. "It's been 33 days since (the nation's heart) has been broken" by the Newtown shooting, he said.

He's also addressing the Newtown victims' relatives who are attending the White House announcement.

[initial post, 11:38 a.m. ET] The moment for President Barack Obama to announce his gun-control proposals is about to arrive.

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are expected to unveil around 11:55 a.m. ET gun control proposals that, according to a source, will include background checks on all gun sales, a ban on assault weapons, and a ban on gun magazines with a capacity of more than 10 rounds.

This post will have details on Obama's proposals as they are announced. Check this page starting just before noon ET, and refresh often for updates.

The announcement at the White House comes after Biden led a task force to make gun-control proposals, partly in response to a December 14 shooting that killed 20 children and six women at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.

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If life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery?

FORBID IT, almighty GOD!

I know not what course others may take, but as for me...

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Patrick Henry and me too...

Those who desire to give up FREEDOM in order to gain security will not have nor do they deserve either one!

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Does this mean we can prosecute the people responsible for "Fast and Furious"?

O said those people wer "grandfathered in."

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Nobody, but NOBODY should give ANYBODY invloved in F&F a pass!

Starting with eric holder,

the whole bunch of them belong in pinks in the tent city of Sheriff Joe Arpaio!

How DARE anyone think themselves above our Constitution...?!

It was meticulously executed in such a fashion as to protect us from the exact kind of KRAP we allowed to infiltrate OUR WHITE House!

and...

Anyone who helped them get their is a TRAITOR!

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Come on people. You all knew he was going to do this. We need to hunker down and be ready for the next move. May God protect us and our liberties!!!! As for me and my house we serve the Lord and OUR country!!!!

Hunkering down is what let them get to this point.

Fight like Americans on this move prevent the next move.

I think you are fixing to see a massive propaganda campaign aimed at gun owners.

Religion and Guns if you hunker down now you will be turning in your guns within a few years.

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

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Hunkering down is what let them get to this point.

Fight like Americans on this move prevent the next move.

I think you are fixing to see a massive propaganda campaign aimed at gun owners.

Religion and Guns if you hunker down now you will be turning in your guns within a few years.

No Surrender No Retreat and No Compromise

You miss understood what I meant by hunker down. I will never give up anything for this government or any other government and I will not compromise.

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Does this mean we can prosecute the people responsible for "Fast and Furious"?

O said those people wer "grandfathered in."

I know that this is old and happened back in 2010 but it goes along with what you are talking about and needs to be read by all!!

  • Revealed: Operation Fast and Furious guns used in 2010 Mexico massacre of 16 people - including 14 TEENS
  • 16 people were killed in 2010 massacre at birthday party
  • Attorney General Eric Holder cleared of any wrongdoing in report two weeks ago that said he should have been briefed
  • Acting ATF Director Kenneth Melson quit as report was released
  • Operation Fast and Furious was a failed gun-trafficking probe

By ASSOCIATED PRESS and DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 11:00 EST, 1 October 2012 | UPDATED: 11:14 EST, 1 October 2012

The guns used in a 2010 mass murder of mostly young men and women - came from the U.S. in its failed gun-tracking program known as Operation Fast and Furious, a shocking report has revealed.

It has now been discovered that three of the guns used in the relentless assault came from Fast and Furious, the botched Department of Justice gun-trafficking operation.

The Villas de Salvarcar massacre in January 2010 was one of the darkest days of the Mexican drug war, after about 20 armed cartel members stormed a birthday party in Ciudad Juarez at about midnight and began firing at random, killing 16 people.

Fourteen of the victims were teenagers.

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article-2211289-154BA74E000005DC-748_634x423.jpgStreets running red: Sixteen young people where killed in the Villas de Salvarcar massacre in January 2010

article-2211289-154BA7D9000005DC-745_634x423.jpgBloodbath: A girl walks down the blood-soaked Villa del Portal street in Villas de Salvarcar, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico

Univision confirmed the information in an official document obtained through a Freedom of Information request.

The report, translated by ABC News said that weapons used in the devastating shooting were linked to Fast and Furious through serial numbers.

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A Justice Department spokesman told MailOnline that the agency is trying to review the Univision report, and 'cannot confirm or deny anything that’s been reported' at this point.

The mastermind behind the attack, Drug boss Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez was sentenced to seven life terms in April for his role in the birthday party shooting and other acts of murder and violence that he ordered.

article-2021020-0D3F854900000578-201_634x407.jpgSentencing: With his charges including murder, conspiracy to kill and various racketeering, money laundering and drug charges Jose Antonio Acosta Hernandez was sentenced to seven concurrent life terms and three additional consecutive life terms

Hernandez was a chief in La Linea, an arm of the Juarez Drug Cartel.

In a plea agreement, Hernandez confessed to ordering his men to kill members of a rival gang at the birthday party in Ciudad Juarez.

He also admitted that he participated in the murder of U.S. consulate employee Arthur Redelfs and his wife and a car bombing that killed four Mexican police officers.

In total, Hernandez has been linked to '1,500 murders since 2008,' according to the plea document.

A damning September 19 report led two top Department of Justice officials to be ousted from their jobs - but Attorney General Eric Holder was ruled blameless in the gun-trafficking scandal.

Two senior officials left the department, one by resignation and one by retirement, upon release of the 471-page internal report.

Its author, Inspector General Michael Horowitz, also referred 14 people for possible department disciplinary action for their roles in Operation Fast and Furious and a separate, earlier probe known as Wide Receiver, undertaken during the George W Bush administration.

article-0-15192E16000005DC-572_634x373.jpgEscape: Attorney General Eric Holder was cleared of any wrongdoing in the Fast and Furious probe, but the report found that he should have been briefed on the investigation

article-2047297-0E19B39E00000578-937_634x443.jpgGunrunners: Some 1,400 of the 2,000 guns lost in Operation Fast and Furious are yet to be recovered

The high risk operation saw guns being allowed to be purchased by Mexican gangsters and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives agents were supposed to track them to higher level drug cartel members and catch the bigger fish red-handed.

But, it backfired and resulted in hundreds of weapons turning up at crime scenes in the U.S. and Mexico.

And in the worst failure U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, who was gunned down in December 2010 with two guns that agents had been trying to track.

More...

Terry's murder was the catalyst that began the internal probe into the gun operation after two of the 2,000 weapons thought to have been acquired by illicit buyers were found at the murder scene.

About 1,400 of the total are yet to be recovered.

No criminal charges were recommended in the report.

article-2205737-15193D47000005DC-670_306x395.jpgVictim: U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was gunned down with one of the weapons used in Operation Fast and Furious in December 2010

The documents did not criticise Holder, but said lower-level officials should have briefed him about the investigation much earlier.

Investigators found that Holder didn't know anything about Fast and Furious until late January/early February and found no evidence that that the attorney general was told about the much-disputed 'gun-walking' tactic employed by the department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

The inspector general found fault with the work of the senior ATF leadership, the ATF staff and U.S. attorney's office in Phoenix and senior officials of Justice's criminal division in Washington.

He also said that poor internal information-gathering and drafting at Justice and ATF caused the department to initially misinform Congress about Fast and Furious.

One of those criticized in the report, former ATF acting director Kenneth Melson, who headed that office during the Fast and Furious investigation, retired upon release of the report.

'Melson made too many assumptions about the case,' the report stated. 'Melson should have asked basic questions about the investigation, including how public safety was being protected.'

Another of those criticized, Justice Department career attorney Jason Weinstein, resigned.

Weinstein was a deputy assistant attorney general in Justice's criminal division in Washington.

'Weinstein was the most senior person in the department in April and May 2010 who was in a position to identify the similarity between the inappropriate tactics used in Operations Wide Receiver and Fast and Furious,' the report said.

Weinstein's lawyer, Michael Bromwich, called the report's criticism 'profoundly wrong' and 'deeply flawed.'

article-2205737-151970A9000005DC-618_634x430.jpgResigned: Deputy Assistant Attorney General Jason Weinstein, the top Justice Department official with the power to stop Operation Fast and Furious

article-2047297-0E4F621100000578-533_634x422.jpgArsenal: Weapons tied to the gun trafficking operation known Fast and Furious were discovered in April in the home of Jose Antonio Torres Marrufo, in the volatile city of Juarez, Mexico

In Operation Fast and Furious and at least three earlier probes during the administration of George W. Bush, agents in Arizona employed a risky tactic called gun-walking - allowing low-level 'straw' buyers - believed to be working for notorious Mexican drug cartels - to leave with loads of weapons purchased at gun shops.

But because of thin ATF staffing and weak penalties, the traditional strategy of arresting suspected straw buyers as soon as possible had failed to stop the flow of tens of thousands of guns to Mexico - more than 68,000 in the past five years.

The goal was to track the guns to major weapons traffickers and drug cartels in order to bring cases against kingpins who had long eluded prosecution under the former strategy of arresting low-level purchasers of guns who were suspected of buying them for others.

The report also said that poor internal information-gathering and drafting at the Justice Department and ATF caused the department to initially misinform Congress about Fast and Furious.

article-2205737-15194562000005DC-492_634x419.jpg Out: Kenneth Melson, the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' retired upon the release of the report, which heavily criticised him for assuming too muchRep Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, and vocal critic of the operation, said: 'The inspector general's report confirms findings by Congress' investigation of a near total disregard for public safety in Operation Fast and Furious.'

The report's conclusion reads: 'Our review of Operation Fast and Furious and related matters revealed a series of misguided strategies, tactics, errors in judgment, and management failures that permeated ATF Headquarters and the Phoenix Field Division, as well as the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.'

One of the five suspects in Terry's murder was arrested two weeks ago.

Jesus Leonel Sanchez Meza, who was arrested on September 6 in Sonora state.

Another suspect is currently on trial, while three more - Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga, 31, Ivan Soto-Barraza, 34, Heraclio Osorio-Arellanes, 34 - remain at large.

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If life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of the chains of slavery?

FORBID IT, almighty GOD!

I know not what course others may take, but as for me...

GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Patrick Henry and me too...

Those who desire to give up FREEDOM in order to gain security will not have nor do they deserve either one!

Ben Franklin and me too...

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And me, too.

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An accomplished student is President Obama:

The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation"

~Adolph Hitler Mein Kompf

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