- President Biden is signing a gun control executive order on Tuesday that the administration says will get the country “as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.”
- It builds on the bipartisan legislation Biden signed into law last June, but requires the attorney general to get involved through a wonky process of redefining which firearms dealers are required to run background checks.
- The order relies on encouraging more accountability and safer practices by gun owners and dealers through public information campaigns and databases.
- “We need universal background checks legislation to finish the job,” said a senior administration official.
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FILE - Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, holds a TEC-9 semi-automatic pistol during a hearing of the committee on Capitol Hill, Aug. 3, 1993, as the committee holds hearings on combating the proliferation of assault weapons. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
