President Obama is sitting down Monday with top law enforcement officials to review and finalize new executive actions aimed at tightening the country's gun laws - a push that Republicans on Capitol Hill and the campaign trail are calling a "dangerous" overreach.
The president lit a fire under the gun control debate last week when he and his aides announced White House plans to kick off the new year with executive action on gun rules.
The package includes measures this White House has long considered but not completed, mindful of the legal fight sure to follow as well as the potential for political backlash for some fellow Democrats.
"While we don't yet know the details of the plan, the president is at minimum subverting the legislative branch, and potentially overturning its will," House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said in a statement.