Selling off illegal guns and how to stop it by executive order.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/charleston-obama-guns-background-checks

One of the first things Republicans did after the mass shooting at a black church in Charleston, S.C., last month was vote to renew a policy preventing the Centers for Disease Control from conducting research on gun violence. The current Republican-controlled Congress, in other words, is not about to curb access to guns.

But that doesn't mean nothing can be done. At the national level, gun control advocates say, there are important steps the Obama administration can take to keep guns out of the wrong hands.