OnPolitics: President Joe Biden set to tackle gun control through executive action

Happy 🥧 Day, OnPolitics readers! 

Today, President Joe Biden is set to take executive action to increase the number of background checks during gun sales as the administration looks at how to tackle gun control without the help of Congress. 

So what does it do? Well, as White House Correspondent Joey Garrison reports: 

The order stops short of requiring universal background checks, which the president has asked Congress to pass through legislation. His action instead directs Attorney General Merrick Garland to "clarify" the statutory definition of firearms dealing, according to senior Biden administration officials familiar with the order.

Federal law requires individuals engaged in the business of dealing firearms be federally licensed and therefore check the backgrounds of buyers. Under the order, Garland will use his discretion to ensure gun sellers "willfully violating the law" and those unaware of background requirements become compliant.

Biden is set to sign the executive order while visiting Monterey Park, Calif., where 11 people were killed in a mass shooting in January.

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