Biden's Executive Order on Guns, Explained

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : According to the White House, Biden wants Attorney General Merrick Garland to "move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation."
53% : What effect the update will have depends largely on enforcement by the Department of Justice, particularly the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
50% : He also instructed federal law enforcement agencies to issue stricter policies requiring the submission of data to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, or NIBIN, a database that allows for law enforcement to compare ballistic evidence to but has not been widely adopted.
43% : Biden has tried for decades to get Congress to pass universal background checks, which would require all sellers to initiate a background check before any gun sale.
41% : The order largely directs federal agencies under Biden's control to step up enforcement, clarify existing federal gun laws, and take new steps to implement the Safer Communities Act.

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