President Joe Biden traveled to California on Tuesday to address gun control in the San Francisco area after multiple mass shootings occurred in California in January.

According to the Public Policy Institute of California, mass shootings occur every 8.3 days in California on average. The state has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.

Biden announced on Tuesday that he has signed an executive order to expand the statutory definition of firearms dealers, requiring more background checks to be conducted before purchasing firearms. The Biden administration stated that it will also call on Congress to pass universal background check legislation.

In February, Biden stated his intentions regarding gun control, saying:

We need—need—common sense gun law reforms. That includes requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, fully closing the boyfriend loophole to keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, requiring safe storage of guns, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets.

Now, a month later, the White House has repeated the same agenda, issuing a fact sheet detailing the administration’s plan for new levels of gun control without passing new legislation through Congress.

“None of this absolves Congress of the, from the responsibility of acting,” said Biden. “Pass universal background checks. Eliminate gun manufacturing immunity and liability. And I’m determined to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines.”

Biden then referenced his involvement in passing an “assault weapons” ban in the 1990s, claiming that mass shootings went down during the ten years it was enacted, and tripled after it was lifted.

Yet a nonpartisan study from the Department of Justice in 2004 showed that the ban had no significant impact:

…The ban’s impact on gun violence is likely to be small at best, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement. AWs [assault weapons] were used in no more than 8% of gun crimes even before the ban.

Congresswoman Mary Miller (R-IL) was quick to point to hypocrisy:

Joe Biden is signing more "gun control" exec. orders today to attack our Second Amendment rights. We have a Crime Crisis because leftist DAs catch-and-release & refuse to prosecute criminals. The left wants to Defund The Police & disarm law-abiding citizens. We must DEFEND 2A!

According to the memo from the White House, released ahead of his address:

Again and again, [President Biden] has called for Congress to act, including by banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, requiring background checks for all gun sales, requiring safe storage of firearms, closing the dating violence restraining order loophole, and repealing gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability.

The White House memo stated that “the President is directing the Attorney General to move the U.S. as close to universal background checks as possible without additional legislation by clarifying, as appropriate, the statutory definition of who is ‘engaged in the business’ of dealing in firearms, as updated by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.”

The executive order will also continue to push ‘red flag’ laws (but the memo did not elaborate on how the administration plans to advocate for the legislation), which are already present in 19 states and the District of Columbia.

The executive order will enable the administration to “accelerate and intensify implementation” of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. The bill passed last year with 29 Republicans supporting the legislation, and is one of the most expansive gun control bills in decades, increasing background checks for 18-21 year olds and pushing red flag legislation.

The Associated Press reported:

Tuesday’s action does not change U.S. government policy. Rather, it directs federal agencies to ensure compliance with existing laws and procedures — a typical feature of executive orders issued by presidents when they confront the limits of their own power to act without cooperation from Congress.

Biden closed his remarks by saying “Let’s finish the job… Ban assault rifles. Do it again. Do something. Do something big.”