AMEN. Executive orders can ONLY apply to those agencies that fall within the scope of the executive order. Think about it for a second: if the executive branch of government could just "order" things to happen then we would not have a Supreme Court or a Congress. We would've had a dictatorship. Now you can hate on Obama all you want and express opinion but you aren't entitled to your own fallacies and pursue them as fact. Civics folks ... civics. Is that to say we won't get any absolutely, stupendously, incredibly farcical proposed legislation (from our Congress from which all legislation must come that affects 'we the people') about guns? No. But this absolute nonsense being perpetuated about the POTUS being able to ban guns unilaterally is not only inaccurate but shameful because it preys on the lack of civics intelligence on the one hand and on emotion on the other. I can't believe how many Constitutional quoting folks continually get sucked into this and display their ignorance of their own government.
I understand what you're saying about buying into fear and panic, but I do have a legitimate question. I understand how an executive order works. What I don't understand is how to explain Roosevelt's internment of Japanese Americans in 1942. They created large portions of the US that were exclusion zones, and legal American citizens were impacted. All done via executive order. The supremes upheld it's constitutionality in 1944. I would really like to understand this better, and how this sort of thing couldn't be applied to just about anything.