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The Executive Order directs the President’s Cabinet to:

• Increase the number of background checks by ensuring that all background checks required by law are conducted before firearm purchases, moving the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation.

• Improve public awareness and increase appropriate use of extreme risk protection (“red flag”) orders and safe storage of firearms.

• Address the loss or theft of firearms during shipping.

• Provide the public and policymakers with more information regarding federally licensed firearms dealers who are violating the law.

• Use the Department of Defense’s acquisition of firearms to further firearm and public safety practices.

Resident Potato is also encouraging the independent Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue a public report analyzing how gun manufacturers market firearms to minors and how such manufacturers market firearms to all civilians, including through the use of military imagery.

• Help catch shooters by accelerating federal law enforcement’s reporting of ballistics data.

• Accelerate and intensify implementation of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA).

• Improve federal support for gun violence survivors, victims and survivors’ families, first responders to gun violence, and communities affected by gun violence.

• Advance congressional efforts to prevent the proliferation of firearms undetectable by metal detectors.