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Congress may react to President Obama's plans to curb gun violence by doing exactly nothing, in large part because Obama's action didn't do anything to change existing law, making it unclear what Congress should do in return.
As soon as President Obama announced plans to take executive action aimed at expanding background checks on gun purchasers, Republicans fired off statements opposing the move and threatening action.
The GOP didn't pledge any specific plans, and most lawmakers promised to study the changes while pledging to uphold the Second Amendment right to gun ownership.
"Congress and the American people have repeatedly said 'no' to President Obama's ineffective policies that would infringe on the Second Amendment," Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, said in a statement:
"The House continues to stand for the Constitution and in defense of the American people's rights."Policy experts say the non-specific reaction is due in part to Obama's executive actions, which didn't change existing law, and instead stressed that appropriate background checks should be performed for all gun purchases, regardless of where they take place. But that's already current law, which makes it hard for Congress to respond.
"All the president did was just restate what was in the statue, and court cases have interpreted it," David Kopel, a policy analyst for the libertarian Cato Institute, told the Washington Examiner.
"It's hard to have a counter measure against nothing."
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