News - World: Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott has dismissed President Joe Biden’s newly announced executive measures aimed at tackling gun violence as “a show” that infringes upon Americans' right to bear firearms under the Second Amendment.

Speaking on “Fox News Sunday,” Abbott rejected the idea that gun control measures could be passed via executive order.

“I think that there is no acceptable way that a president by executive order can infringe upon Second Amendment rights or alter Second Amendment rights,” the governor said.

“[I]f the president wanted to do something more than show...if the president really wanted to do something substantively, what he really could do by executive order is to eliminate the backlog of complaints that have already been filed about gun crimes that have taken place,” he continued.

Biden on Thursday signed a series of executive orders to address the “epidemic” of gun violence, and specifically to rein in the so-called “ghost guns,” firearms that can be assembled at home without serial numbers.

The measures were unveiled in the wake of two mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia that killed 18 people and renewed called for gun safety reform.

Source: Press TV