Networks Applaud Obama’s ‘New Gun Checks’ Hoping ‘to Restrict Gun Sales’

Curtis Houck | January 4, 2016
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Moments after the White House revealed to reporters on Monday details of President Obama’s executive orders on gun control, the network evening newscasts could barely contain their approval for the President “picking a major fight with Republicans” as his “new gun checks” seek “to restrict gun sales.”

The CBS Evening News did not allow the story to wait as it led with the announcement and anchor Scott Pelley hyped in the first tease: “The President does an end run around Congress to restrict gun sales.”