WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will order the Justice Department to expand the definition of a gun dealer on Tuesday so that more firearm sales require the seller to conduct a background check.
The White House said Biden would direct his attorney general “to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation” by clarifying the definition of who is “engaged in the business” of selling guns.
Though Biden plans to make a big display of signing the order, it’s not his initiative — rather, he’s fulfilling a requirement of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the gun law Congress passed last year in the wake of two horrific mass murders by teenagers with assault rifles.
“The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act would not have been possible without President Biden’s support, and I applaud today’s executive order directing the administration to fully implement the legislation and move our country closer to universal…
