President Barack Obama started out his final year in office with a lengthy plan to reduce gun violence. Notably missing from his proposal is a push to reinstate the assault weapons ban.

In response to a reporter question at a Jan. 6 press briefing, Press Secretary Josh Earnest said Obama left out the assault weapons ban because he couldn't institute it on his own.

"It is not possible, using only his executive authority, for the president to reinstate the assault weapons ban, but it surely is something that the president supports," Earnest said. "Over the last couple of weeks -- or the last month or so, that's a position of the president's that I've repeated a couple of times, and it certainly is a position that the president continues to believe would make the country safer. But there continues to be entrenched opposition in Congress to reinstating that ban."

In his Jan. 6 remarks on his gun violence reduction proposal, Obama called on Congress to get "on board with common-sense gun safety measures" and to fund his executive actions. But he did not ask them specifically to reinstate the assault weapons ban.

Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., is the latest member of Congress to attempt to ban assault weapons. He introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2015 in December, but that bill has yet to go anywhere.

Some polling shows that public support for an assault weapons ban is dwindling, with just 45 percent of respondents favoring the policy in an ABC News/Washington Post survey published in December.

Because other gun control measures seem to have moved higher up Obama's priority list, we move this promise from In the Works to Stalled.