WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest on President Barack Obama’s executive actions to tighten gun control in the United States (all times EST):
11:30 a.m.
More GOP candidates are chiming in with criticism of President Barack Obama’s executive actions to tighten gun regulation in the U.S.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) says Obama is “obsessed” with undermining the Second Amendment.
During a town hall-style meeting in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Rubio told reporters Tuesday that the president’s new executive actions on guns undermine Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms.
Rubio says he opposes gun violence but that the president’s plans won’t help prevent it. The GOP presidential candidate says he’ll work to overturn the executive actions.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, for his part, is labeling Obama’s actions “a blatant, belligerent abuse of power.”
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11 a.m.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush says President Barack Obama is acting unlawfully and showing disregard for the Second Amendment with his actions on gun control.
Bush is panning Obama’s set of measures in an op-ed in Iowa’s Cedar Rapids Gazette. He’s comparing the gun actions to Obama’s executive action on immigration and says Obama is flouting the proper constitutional process for lawmaking.
Bush says it’s even more important to defend gun rights because of Islamic State-linked attacks and mass shootings in Paris and California.
Obama is unveiling the new actions at the White House on Tuesday. He’s aiming to expand background checks to cover more firearms by requiring more people to register as federally licensed gun dealers.
Bush and his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination have said they’ll undo Obama’s actions if elected.
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