U.S. President Joe Biden announced and signed a new executive order on gun violence on Tuesday that he said would continue and accelerate work already being done. The order is intended to keep firearms out of dangerous hands by directing Attorney General Merrick Garland to take “every lawful action possible to move us as close as we can” to universal background checks without the need for new legislation. He said the order also expands public awareness campaigns about red flag laws. Biden said the order will also work to hold the gun industry “accountable” by calling for an “independent government study” analyzing how gun manufacturers “aggressively market firearms to civilians, especially minors, including by using military imagery.”
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