(MCT) — WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Monday that he would announce this week a “sensible, common-sense” proposal to curb gun violence that would include improved background checks, limits on the sale of high-capacity magazines and “an assault-weapons ban that is meaningful.”

The administration plans to buttress its legislative proposals with executive orders in as many as 19 areas, according to a member of Congress who was present Monday when Vice President Joe Biden briefed House Democrats. The White House declined to confirm that number.