Live: Watch: President Obama lays out his gun control proposals
President Obama is announcing today that he’ll act on his own authority to expand background checks for would-be gun buyers and increase enforcement of existing laws.
Obama’s move falls short of his stated goals. His executive actions neither close the so-called gun-show loophole nor require universal background checks, two possibilities he had directed aides to explore amid a spate of mass shootings in the fall.
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