President Obama Signed 23 Executive Orders on Gun Control Didn't He?

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I keep getting told that President Obama signed 23 Executive Orders on Gun Control yesterday.
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President Obama was expected to sign a series of Executive Orders at the Gun Control event held yesterday at the White House.  But it didn't happen. President Obama didn't sign any Executive Orders at the event yesterday. He did sign 3 Presidential Memorandum   Presidential Memorandum: Engaging in Public Health Research on the Causes and Prevention of Gun Violence

Presidential Memorandum: Improving Availability of Relevant Executive Branch Records to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System

Presidential Memorandum: Tracing of Firearms in Connection with Criminal Investigations

President Obama didn't sign 23 Executive Orders but he did outline 23 Executive Actions to be undertaken by the Obama Administration. This does not preclude the President from issuing Executive Orders on the issues at hand at a later date.  The 23 Executive Actions are:

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 

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 rule-making 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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