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FACT SHEET: The Biden Administration’s 21 Executive Actions to

Reduce Gun Violence

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(Photo added by me, it was not shown in the below White House article.).
Note: The President, who cannot form a whole sentence that makes sense; and who his
wife gives drugs to, before every public appearance, “made historic progress on actions to
reduce gun crime”?
Lets give the federal govt more power, and more power, and more power, until finally we
have no rights at all, only the illegal immigrants and early released prisoners, and the people
that should have been prisoners, but were let go without doing time, will have the guns...
Remember when Obama/Holder had the Operation Fast and Furious scheme...1
Instead of taking steps that are known to reduce gun violence, such as having the population
arm themselves, which has been proven to curtail the bad guys from whipping a gun out
every time they want something you have, Biden took the following steps:

1
The department announced in a press release that it reached a settlement with a House
committee in a long-running standoff over documents related to Operation Fast and
Furious. The Obama-era gun-running investigation, a sting operation overseen by the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, had allowed illegal sales of as many
as 2,000 firearms. Many of the weapons ended up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels,
and one was used in the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2019-05-09/house-justice-department-
announce-settlement-in-7-year-fast-and-furious-fight
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/07/11/fact-sheet-
the-biden-administrations-21-executive-actions-to-reduce-gun-violence/
JULY 11, 2022•STATEMENTS AND RELEASES
President Biden has made historic progress on actions to reduce gun violence. To
implement his comprehensive strategy to reduce gun crime, the Biden Administration has
taken more executive action to reduce gun violence than any other president’s at this point
in their Administration. Today, the President is celebrating the Bipartisan Safer
Communities Act, the most significant gun violence reduction legislation to
pass Congress in 30 years.
The Biden Administration will continue to use all of the tools at its disposal to address the
epidemic of gun violence. The President’s FY 2023 budget proposes $32 billion in
additional funding to fight crime, including $20.6 billion in discretionary funding for
federal law enforcement and state and local law enforcement and crime prevention
programs, an increase of 11% over FY22 enacted ($18.6 billion) and 18% over FY21
enacted ($17.5 billion).
But there is so much more that can and must be done to save lives. The President will
continue to urge Congress to take further legislative action to keep dangerous guns out of
dangerous hands, including a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines,
strengthening background checks, and enacting safe storage laws.
Below are 21 ways the Biden Administration has already used executive action to make
our communities safer:
Keeping Especially Dangerous Weapons and Repeat Shooters Off Our Streets
1. The Justice Department issued a final rule to rein in the proliferation of ghost guns,
which are unserialized, privately made firearms that are increasingly being recovered at
crime scenes.
2. The Attorney General directed every U.S. Attorney’s Office nationwide to increase
resources dedicated to district specific violent crime strategies.
3. The Justice Department issued a proposed rule to better regulate when devices
marketed as firearm stabilizing braces effectively turn pistols into short-barreled rifles
subject to the National Firearms Act.
Keeping Guns Out of the Wrong Hands
4. The Justice Department published model extreme risk protection order legislation to
make it easier for states that want to adopt these red flag laws to do so.
5. The Justice Department issued the first volume of its new, comprehensive report on
firearms commerce and trafficking.
6. The Justice Department announced a new policy to underscore zero tolerance for
willful violations of the law by federally licensed firearms dealers that put public safety
at risk.
7. The Justice Department launched five new law enforcement strike forces focused on
addressing significant firearms trafficking corridors that have diverted guns to New York,
Chicago, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Washington, D.C.
8. The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) launched a new paid
media campaign featuring a series of public service announcements to reinforce the key
message that a simple gun lock can save lives.
9. The Departments of Defense (DOD), Health and Human Services (HHS), Homeland
Security (DHS), Justice (DOJ), and Veterans Affairs (VA), as well as the Office of
Emergency Medical Services within the Department of Transportation (DOT),
announced that they will jointly create a plan for addressing lethal means safety awareness,
education, training, and program evaluation.
10. ATF issued a final rule clarifying firearms dealers’ statutory obligations to make
available for purchase compatible secure gun storage or safety devices.
Making Additional Progress to Reduce Community Violence
11. The President called for cities and states to use American Rescue Plan funding to
reduce gun crime and other violent crime, including by investing in community violence
interventions and prevention. Through May 2022, $10 billion in American Rescue Plan
funds had been committed to public safety and violence prevention – including at least
$6.5 billion in State and Local funds committed by more than half of states and more
than 300 communities across the country
12. Five federal agencies made changes to 26 different programs to direct vital support to
community violence intervention programs as quickly as possible. For example
• The National Institutes of Health announced funding through its Firearm Injury and
Mortality Prevention Research grants for four community violence programs –
including a place-based strategy involving repurposing vacant lots in Detroit, an evaluation
of READI Chicago, a burnout prevention program for violence interrupters in Chicago,
and a hospital-based violence intervention program focused on youth in Virginia.
• The Justice Department announced $187 million for states and $85 million for
localities through the Byrne JAG Program to support coordinated violence prevention and
intervention; the Department explicitly encouraged the use of these funds for CVI.
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development published a guide explaining to
localities how Community Development Block Grants – a $3.4 billion annual funding
stream –can be used to fund CVI strategies.
• The Department of Education released a letter to state school associations on how
21st Century Learning Centers funds and Student Support and Academic enrichment
programs – both billion-dollar formula grant funding streams – can be used to fund
CVI strategies in schools.
13. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services hosted a webinar
and published information to educate states on how they can use Medicaid to reimburse
certain community violence intervention programs, like Hospital-Based Violence
Interventions. Last year, Connecticut and Illinois enacted legislation that allows
Medicaid to reimburse providers for hospital-based violence prevention services – the
first two states in the country to pursue this approach. According to reporting by USA
Today, “[t]he idea has been in the works for years, advocates say, but not until the
Biden administration signaled that states could – and should – use Medicaid dollars
to support these violence prevention programs have state lawmakers stepped up.”
14. Senior White House staff established The White House Community Violence
Intervention Collaborative, a 16-jurisdiction cohort of mayors, law enforcement, CVI
experts, and philanthropic leaders committed to using American Rescue Plan funding
or other public funding to increase investment in their community violence intervention
infrastructure.
Providing Law Enforcement with the Tools and Resources They Need to Reduce Gun
Violence
15. The Justice Department announced $139 million in grants to local law
enforcement that will put over 1,000 police officers on the beat through the COPS Office
Hiring Program.
16. The Justice Department’s Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) expanded
the Domestic Violence Homicide Prevention Firearms Technical Assistance Project
(FTAP).
Addressing the Root Causes of Gun Violence
17. The Department of Labor awarded $89 million through its YouthBuild program to
provide pre-apprenticeship opportunities for young people ages 16-24.
18. The Department of Labor awarded $20 million through its Workforce Pathways for
Youth program to expand workforce development activities that serve youth ages 14-21
during “out of school” time (non-school hours).
19. The Department of Labor awarded $85.5 million to help formerly incarcerated
adults and young people in 28 communities transition out of the criminal justice
system and connect with quality jobs.
20. The Department of Labor awarded $25.5 million in Young Adult Reentry
Partnership grants to organizations that will help provide education and training services
to young adults between 18-24 who were previously involved with the justice system or
who left high school before graduation.
21. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Family
Violence Prevention and Services Program, awarded nearly $1 billion in American
Rescue Plan (ARP) supplemental funding to support services for survivors of domestic
violence and sexual assault and their children. ###