Here are the Executive Actions emerging from Obama's announcement and signed into effect during the news conference:
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.
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...so noted, now we shall see what surfaces when the "devil is in the details" aftermath is made public.
Tarheel