[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 52 (Friday, March 17, 2023)]
[Presidential Documents]
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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 /
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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.)
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March 14, 2023.
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