{"id":64886,"date":"2021-02-16T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64886"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:52:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T14:52:05","slug":"64886","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=64886","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Biden Gun Ban Not The Only Threat In Congress<\/a><\/p>\n

With President Joe Biden calling on Congress to\u00a0enact his gun ban<\/a>\u00a0along with universal background checks and the repeal of the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, the Second Amendment Foundation\u2019s Alan Gottlieb says that Democrats\u2019 are moving forward with an agenda that puts the right to keep and bear arms at risk. Gottlieb joins me on today\u2019s Bearing Arms\u2019 Cam & Co. to discuss the president\u2019s call to disarm and how the 2A community is responding.<\/p>\n

Biden\u2019s statement on the third anniversary of the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida was long on rhetoric and short on facts,\u00a0billing the gun control battle<\/a>\u00a0as a generational fight pitting young Americans against their elders, while ignoring the constitutional and pragmatic objections to his anti-gun agenda.<\/p>\n

The Parkland students and so many other young people across the country who have experienced gun violence are carrying forward the history of the American journey. It is a history written by young people in each generation who challenged prevailing dogma to demand a simple truth: we can do better. And we will.<\/p>\n

This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets. We owe it to all those we\u2019ve lost and to all those left behind to grieve to make a change. The time to act is now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Gottlieb argues, taken in totality Biden\u2019s gun control agenda amounts to a full-scale attack on the right to keep and bear arms; banning some of the most commonly-owned firearms and magazines in the United States, imposing a background check law that could criminalize ordinary transfers of firearms between family and friends, and giving the green light to junk lawsuits designed to bankrupt the firearms industry.<\/p>\n

But Gottlieb notes that these aren\u2019t the only bad ideas offered by anti-gun Democrats. There\u2019s HB 127, which would impose\u00a0insurance mandates<\/a>\u00a0on all gun owners, establish a publicly searchable database of gun owners, and require gun owners to undergo psychological testing before they could receive permission from the federal government to purchase a firearm.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Gottlieb says he believes that the Biden administration will soon unveil executive orders dealing with gun control, including an attempt to force the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to re-define firearms to include unfinished frames and receivers. Not only would that turn existing law on its head, it could open up huge legal risks to any hobbyist who has built their own firearm from scratch.<\/p>\n

The National Shooting Sports Foundation is also speaking out about Biden\u2019s call for Congress to start work on his anti-gun agenda. The firearms industry trade group says that Biden\u2019s plan targets legal gun owners instead of dealing with the reality of violent crime.<\/p>\n

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His demand that Congress ban the modern sporting rifle (MSR), which he knowingly mislabels an \u201cassault rifle\u201d and \u201cweapon of war,\u201d denies the reality that more murders are committed with knives, fists and clubs than all rifles combined. Over 20 million MSRs are in circulation today, used daily for lawful purposes.<\/p>\n

President Biden\u2019s call to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA), a law passed with wide bipartisan support, panders to the radical base of his party. Rolling it back would be akin to allowing activist lawyers to sue Ford for the wrongful deaths caused by drunk drivers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The criminal responsible for the horrors thrust on Parkland, and the nation, must be held accountable for his crimes. Anything less is a whitewash of the failures of local, state and federal authorities to act on any of the 45 instances of warnings, tips and police responses prior to his final terrible crimes.<\/p>\n

Of course, we can object as much as we want, but our lawmakers are the ones who really need to be hearing from us at the moment. In addition, Gottlieb agrees that it\u2019s up to gun owners to educate our friends, family, co-workers, and others who don\u2019t own firearms and don\u2019t know many details about these proposals on why they\u2019re such a bad idea.<\/span><\/p>\n

We can\u2019t expect the media or anti-gun politicians to do that for us. Instead, they\u2019re busy crafting a narrative that these infringements on our civil rights are just \u201ccommon sense\u201d items that won\u2019t have any negative impact whatsoever on legal gun owners, when in reality the anti-gun agenda of Joe Biden and his allies in Congress would criminalize a constitutionally-protected right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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