Gun Control Advocates: Obama "Too Late"
Complaint of "too little" may not be far behind
The big-ticket items in President Obama's push for action on gun control will require the approval of Congress, but many of the 23 executive moves he announced Wednesday could have been taken at any time in his first term — a point that nettles those who have been advocating for stricter measures.
"It's a disgrace that it hasn't been done until now," said Richard E. Gardiner, a lawyer based in Northern Virginia. "I didn't see anything in here that they couldn't already have been doing and in fact that the pro-gun people have been encouraging for years."
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