Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities Safer, 16527-16529 [2023-05714]

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 16527-16529]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-05714]



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Vol. 88

Friday,

No. 52

March 17, 2023

Part II





The President





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Executive Order 14092--Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities 
Safer


                        Presidential Documents 



Federal Register / Vol. 88 , No. 52 / Friday, March 17, 2023 / 
Presidential Documents

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Title 3--
The President

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                Executive Order 14092 of March 14, 2023

                
Reducing Gun Violence and Making Our Communities 
                Safer

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, I hereby order as follows:

                Section 1. Policy. Every few days in the United States, 
                we mourn a new mass shooting. Daily acts of gun 
                violence--including community violence, domestic 
                violence, suicide, and accidental shootings--may not 
                always make the evening news, but they too cut lives 
                short and leave survivors and their communities with 
                long-lasting physical and mental wounds. We cannot 
                accept these facts as the enduring reality of life in 
                America. Instead, we must together insist that we have 
                had enough, and that we will no longer allow the 
                interests of the gun manufacturers to win out over the 
                safety of our children and Nation.

                It is the policy of my Administration that executive 
                departments and agencies (agencies) will pursue every 
                legally available and appropriate action to reduce gun 
                violence. Through this whole-of-government approach, my 
                Administration has made historic progress to save 
                lives. My Administration has taken action to keep guns 
                out of dangerous hands and especially dangerous weapons 
                off of our streets; hold gun traffickers and rogue gun 
                dealers accountable; fund accountable, effective 
                community policing; and invest in community violence 
                interventions and prevention strategies.

                Last year, I signed into law the Bipartisan Safer 
                Communities Act (the ``Act''), the most significant 
                bipartisan gun safety legislation in nearly 30 years. 
                The Act provides communities with new tools to combat 
                gun violence, including enhanced gun background checks 
                for individuals under age 21, funding for extreme risk 
                protection orders and other crisis interventions, and 
                increased mental health resources to help children 
                impacted by gun violence heal from the resulting grief 
                and trauma.

                I continue to call on the Congress to take additional 
                action to reduce gun violence, including by banning 
                assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, requiring 
                background checks for all gun sales, requiring safe 
                storage of firearms, funding my comprehensive Safer 
                America Plan, and expanding community violence 
                intervention and prevention strategies. In the 
                meantime, my Administration will continue to do all 
                that we can, within existing authority, to make our 
                communities safer.

                Sec. 2. Implementation of the Bipartisan Safer 
                Communities Act. The Attorney General, the Secretary of 
                Health and Human Services, the Secretary of Education, 
                and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall each 
                submit a report to the President within 60 days of the 
                date of this order describing what actions their 
                respective agencies have taken to implement the Act, 
                data and analysis regarding the use and early effects 
                of the Act, and additional steps their respective 
                agencies will take to maximize the benefits of the Act. 
                These reports shall include a plan for increasing 
                public awareness and use of resources made available by 
                the Act.

                Sec. 3. Additional Agency Actions to Reduce Gun 
                Violence. (a) The Attorney General shall develop and 
                implement a plan to:

(i) clarify the definition of who is engaged in the business of dealing in 
firearms, and thus required to become Federal firearms licensees (FFLs),

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in order to increase compliance with the Federal background check 
requirement for firearm sales, including by considering a rulemaking, as 
appropriate and consistent with applicable law;

(ii) prevent former FFLs whose licenses have been revoked or surrendered 
from continuing to engage in the business of dealing in firearms;

(iii) publicly release, to the fullest extent permissible by law, 
inspection reports of FFL dealers cited for violations of the law; and

(iv) support efforts to modernize and make permanent the Undetectable 
Firearms Act (18 U.S.C. 922(p)).

                    (b) The Secretary of Defense; the Attorney General; 
                the Secretary of Homeland Security; the Secretary of 
                Health and Human Services, including through the 
                Surgeon General of the United States; the Secretary of 
                Education; and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
                expand existing Federal campaigns and other efforts to 
                promote safe storage of firearms.
                    (c) The Secretary of Defense; the Attorney General; 
                the Secretary of Homeland Security; the Secretary of 
                Health and Human Services, including through the 
                Surgeon General of the United States; and the Secretary 
                of Education shall undertake efforts to encourage 
                effective use of extreme risk protection orders (``red 
                flag'' laws), partnering with law enforcement, health 
                care providers, educators, and other community leaders.
                    (d) The Attorney General; the Secretary of Health 
                and Human Services, including through the Surgeon 
                General of the United States; the Secretary of 
                Education; the Secretary of Homeland Security; the 
                Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and 
                the heads of other agencies, as appropriate, shall 
                develop a proposal for the President, and submit it no 
                later than September 15, 2023, on how the Federal 
                Government can better support the recovery, mental 
                health, and other needs of survivors of gun violence, 
                families of victims and survivors of gun violence, 
                first responders to incidents of gun violence, and 
                communities affected by gun violence. The proposal 
                should draw on existing evidence, where available, and 
                take into account how to address needs in both the 
                immediate aftermath of mass shootings and in the years 
                following such events. The proposal should recommend 
                any additional executive branch coordination and 
                additional resources or authorities from the Congress 
                needed to implement the proposal, as well as how 
                agencies will assess the outcomes for the activities 
                implemented.
                    (e) The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with 
                the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland 
                Security, shall develop and implement principles to 
                further firearm and public safety practices through the 
                Department of Defense's acquisition of firearms, 
                consistent with applicable law.
                    (f) The heads of Federal law enforcement agencies 
                shall, as soon as practicable, but no later than 180 
                days from the date of this order, ensure that their 
                respective law enforcement components issue National 
                Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) 
                submission and utilization policies with requirements 
                that are equivalent to, or exceed, the requirements of 
                the policy issued by the Department of Justice on 
                December 12, 2022, to ensure the prompt entry of 
                ballistics data recovered in connection with criminal 
                investigations into NIBIN. In consultation with the 
                Department of Justice, the Department of Defense 
                policies may be tailored to address specific 
                operational considerations.
                    (g) The Secretary of Transportation, in 
                consultation with the Department of Justice, shall work 
                to reduce the loss or theft of firearms during shipment 
                between FFLs and to improve reporting of such losses or 
                thefts, including by engaging with carriers and 
                shippers.
                    (h) The Federal Trade Commission is encouraged to 
                issue a public report analyzing how gun manufacturers 
                market firearms to minors and how such manufacturers 
                market firearms to civilians, including through the use 
                of military imagery.

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                Sec. 4. Definitions. For purposes of this order, the 
                term ``Federal law enforcement agency'' means an 
                organizational unit or subunit of the executive branch 
                that employs officers who are authorized to make 
                arrests and carry firearms, and that is responsible for 
                the prevention, detection, and investigation of crime 
                or the apprehension of alleged offenders. The term 
                ``heads of Federal law enforcement agencies'' means the 
                heads of those units or subunits.

                Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order 
                shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or 
the head thereof; or

(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

                    (b) This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.
                    (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, or 
                entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any 
                other person.
                
                
                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    March 14, 2023.

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