What's ordered by executive action

• Require federal agencies to make data available to the federal background check system.

• Address unnecessary legal barriers, particularly relating to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, that may prevent states from making information available to the background check system.

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

• Direct the attorney general to review categories of individuals prohibited from having a gun to make sure dangerous people are not slipping through the cracks.

• Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun.

• Publish guidance for federally licensed gun dealers on how to run background checks for private sellers.

• Launch a national campaign for safe gun ownership.

• Require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations.

• Release a DOJ report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and make it widely available to law enforcement.

• Nominate an ATF director.

• Provide training to law enforcement, first responders and school officials for active shooter situations.

• Maximize enforcement efforts to prevent gun violence and prosecute gun crime.

• Direct the attorney general to issue a report on the availability and most effective use of new gun safety technologies and challenge the private sector to develop innovative technologies.

• Clarify that the Affordable Care Act does not prohibit doctors asking their patients about guns in their homes.

• Release a letter to health care providers clarifying that no federal law prohibits them from reporting threats of violence to law enforcement authorities.

• Release a letter to state health officials clarifying the scope of mental health services that Medicaid plans must cover.

• Finalize regulations clarifying essential health benefits and parity requirements within ACA exchanges.

• Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers.

• Develop model emergency response plans for schools, houses of worship and institutions of higher education.

• Expand background checks on those who want to buy guns to include virtually all private transactions, many of which take place at gun shows. There would be some exceptions, including gifts between family members. Under current law, only buyers from federally licensed firearms dealers -- estimated at 60 percent of total sales -- require a background check.

• A new assault-weapons ban to replace the one championed in 1994 by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., which expired in 2004. The ban would apply to unspecified military-style semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15, used in Newtown, Conn.

• Limits on high-capacity magazines: Obama wants to bar ammunition magazines holding more than 10 rounds, which was part of the original assault weapons ban.

• Create serious penalties for gun trafficking.

• More police: Act on $4 billion proposal to keep 15,000 police officers on the street

• More training: Provide $14 million to help train 14,000 police officers and others to respond to shootings.

• Confirm an ATF director.

• Research: Provide $10 million to CDC for additional research on relationship between video games, media and violence.

• School resources: Provide $150 million to school districts and law enforcement agencies to hire school resource officers, school psychologists, social workers and counselors.

• Emergency plans: Provide $30 million in one-time grants to help school districts develop emergency management plans.

• School training: Provide $50 million to help 8,000 more schools train their teachers and staff to create safer environments.

• Mental health: Provide $55 million for initiative to make sure students get treatment for mental health issues; provide $25 million for state-based strategies supporting people ages 16-25 with mental health or substance abuse issues; and provide $50 million to train 5,000 mental health professionals for children.