The president did not:
Start searching houses door to door
ban any firearms by any category
shut down sales of firearms
ban imports of firearms
require turn in of listed firearms in a buyback scheme
start enforcing laws requiring the registration of gun under state awb
Which hundreds of posters have categorically stated he would do at his first opportunity to strip us of our guns.
Not one.
For those who come here preaching the POTUS has the Executive authority to write law and behave as is he is the anointed potentate of power in America, remember this was your last chance for him to do it. He isn't unilaterally stripping the 2A from the Constitution at all, he's making a few lame duck adjustments to tighten up language in areas left undefined since he wore diapers himself.
His gun control legacy to impose more draconian and unilateral restrictions doesn't exist. IT'S A SIGNAL DEFEAT, not an era of new restrictions.
Nothing he has proposed even comes close to the AWB, and it certainly doesn't even rank with the importance of the NFA. It's memos, directives, and a request for money from Congress. If they fail to cough it up, it's on them.
His three panel display at the Obama Library will pleasantly discuss all these positive gun control efforts and put the blame squarely elsewhere for the number of deaths - which the bloggers and columnists now say equal car deaths. It's Not My Fault, I Tried But The Unwashed Masses Failed To Accept My Benevolent Guidance.
In pure bureaucratic fashion, the Gummint can't do anything about it now. No Cult of Personality will be able to change things.
Neither will Trump.