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• Renewing a 10-round limit on the size of ammunition magazines.

• Prohibiting the possession, transfer, manufacture and import of dangerous armor-piercing bullets.

• Senate confirmation of a director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The agency has been run by an acting director, Todd Jones, whom Obama will nominate to become director.

• New gun trafficking laws penalizing people who help criminals get guns.

Items to Be Accomplished by Executive Order

• Address legal barriers in health laws that bar some states from making available information about people who are prohibited from having guns.

• Improve incentives for states to share information with the background check system.

• Make sure that federal agencies share relevant information with the background check system.

• Direct the attorney general to work with other agencies to review existing laws to make sure they can identify individuals who shouldn’t have access to guns.

• Direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other research agencies to conduct research into the causes and prevention of gun violence.

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