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Biden Vows to Defeat America\u2019s Oldest and Largest Civil Rights Group<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Joe Biden wants Americans to believe that he will focus on what he calls \u201cthe renewal of a politics that\u2019s about solving problems \u2013 not stoking the flames of hate and chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet what \u201cproblem\u201d is Biden promising to \u201csolve\u201d before he even takes office? Why the \u201cdefeat\u201d of the National Rifle Association, a group of over 5 million Americans of all different backgrounds from all different walks of life united in their commitment to the nation\u2019s constitutional freedoms.<\/p>\n

Biden issued this \u201cpledge\u201d in a January 8 tweet that falsely tried to suggest the men and women of the NRA were somehow implicated in an infamous crime that was committed a decade ago by a manifestly deranged individual with no clear motivation or political agenda.<\/p>\n

Defaming one\u2019s political opponents \u2013 and by extension, their supporters \u2013 is hardly unheard of in Washington, D.C. But doing so while claiming the mantle of a \u201cunifier\u201d is especially hypocritical, particularly at a time when the nation has real problems to solve, including the economic, psychological, and physical threats posed by the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>\n

If Joe Biden were reading the newspapers \u2013 or better yet, NRA-ILA\u2019s own Grassroots Alert \u2013 he would know that a viewpoint uniting an especially large and diverse group of Americans in 2020 was the necessity of owning a firearm for personal protection. Last year was the busiest ever for the national background check system used to process retail firearms transactions. Americans, by all accounts, voted in record numbers with their feet and their pocketbooks in favor of their Second Amendment rights as the country struggled through one calamity after another.<\/p>\n

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Through it all, the NRA continued doing what it has done for 150 years: ensuring that Americans can meaningfully exercise the right to keep and bear arms and educating gun owners on how to safely and responsibly use their firearms. Our commitment to these goals is non-partisan and is intended to benefit every person in the U.S. who would own a firearm for lawful use.<\/p>\n

Nevertheless, of all the things an incoming president could talk about, Biden made it a point to emphasize that he intends to target the NRA and its members.<\/p>\n

We wouldn\u2019t believe everything Joe Biden says, but on this point, at least, we will take him at his word.<\/p>\n

Biden was at least forthright during the campaign on his intentions to curb Americans\u2019 right to keep and bear arms to a degree never seen in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

At the top of his agenda is a ban on America\u2019s most popular class of centerfire rifles, as well on the factory-spec magazines for most of the defensive pistols sold in the U.S. Current owners would be forced to pay hundreds of dollars in taxes to keep the property they had already lawfully acquired or risk being forced to surrender it to the government.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden also supports litigation to hold firearm manufacturers and sellers responsible for the acts of unaffiliated criminals who misuse guns, even when the merchants had strictly obeyed all laws relating to the marketing and sale of the products. Such an extraordinary regime of lability would make it nearly impossible for America\u2019s firearm industry to survive.<\/p>\n

Biden would even like to ban the online sale of ammunition and \u201cgun parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

The incoming president has also shown his antagonism toward gun owners and the NRA with his announced list of appointments, which includes Merrick Garland for U.S. attorney general. Garland had formerly been nominated by Barack Obama for the U.S. Supreme Court, a move that was vigorously opposed by the NRA because of Garland\u2019s anti-gun record as a federal circuit judge.<\/p>\n

For example, when a panel of his judicial peers ruled that D.C.\u2019s ban on handguns and operable firearms in the home was unconstitutional, Garland voted to give the District another chance to prove its case that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual right. Gun owners should be wary that a lawyer who has had his doubt about the legitimacy of their rights will likely become the nation\u2019s highest law enforcement official.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Biden\u2019s pick to head the Justice Department\u2019s powerful Civil Rights Division is someone who has commented favorably on a proposal to get \u201crid of the 2nd Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Add it all up, and Biden\u2019s vision of \u201cunity\u201d seems suspiciously unwelcoming to the more than 100 million Americans who own or live in a household with firearms.<\/p>\n

But just as when Joe Biden unsuccessfully pursued gun control as Barack Obama\u2019s vice-president, your NRA is fully prepared to oppose whatever plans he may have to \u201cdefeat\u201d America\u2019s largest and oldest civil rights organization and the fundamental liberties it protects.<\/p>\n

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