---
title: "Obama’s Gun Policy Announcement"
description: "President Obama and Vice President Joseph Biden Wednesday unveiled their proposals for preventing the kind of mass shootings that most recently occurred at an elementary school in Newtown, Ct. Here are some of our public opinion findings that relate to some of what they had to say."
date: "2013-01-16"
authors:
  - name: "Sara Kehaulani Goo"
    job_title: "Former Senior Digital Editor"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/sara-kehaulani-goo/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/2013/01/16/obamas-gun-policy-announcement/"
categories:
  - "Barack Obama"
  - "Gun Policy"
---

# Obama’s Gun Policy Announcement

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