Well, when he’s lived his whole political life as one big continuous lie, this is not unusual.<\/p>\n
PRESIDENT BIDEN GOES ALL OUT (FALSELY) ON GUN CONTROL AGAIN<\/a><\/p>\n President Joe Biden wasted little time calling for gun control following the tragic murders of six innocent Americans by a mentally unstable person who was known to be a threat. Similarly, White House Spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre demanded a litany of gun control in a press briefing following the tragedy in Louisville, Ky., before the basic facts of the incident were known.<\/p>\n Less than two weeks after a transgender student shot her way into The Covenant School in Nashville, Tenn., the president tweeted his gun control call.<\/p>\n \u201cCongress must ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, require safe storage of firearms, eliminate gun manufacturers\u2019 immunity from liability, and require background checks for all gun sales, and state officials must do the same,\u201d President Biden said. The Tweet was accompanied by a graphic saying, \u201cBan Assault Weapons.\u201d<\/p>\n He\u2019s conceded there isn\u2019t much more he can do on his own for gun control.<\/p>\n What\u2019s The Truth? \u201cFirst define what an \u2018Assault Weapon\u2019 is before you demand to ban it,\u201d one Twitter user replied. That\u2019s a good point. The administration has never defined what they mean by \u201cassault weapon.\u201d The president\u2019s first and failed nominee to be director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) David Chipman, became flustered in his U.S. Senate nomination hearing when questioned before admitting, \u201cSenator, there\u2019s no way I could define an assault weapon.\u201d Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives also flub firearm terminology when debating gun restrictions on law-abiding Americans. Similarly, the Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas was unable to define what an \u201cassault weapon\u201d is, even though he supports banning them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If the president and the incessant gun control groups calling for a ban on MSRs acknowledged what the data shows, they\u2019d see the folly of such an ineffective call. The FBI\u2019s Uniform Crime Report shows more intentional murders are committed by criminals using knives, fists and blunt objects than by rifles of any kind, not just MSRs like the AR-15.<\/p>\n Another responder pointed out an additional reason why the president\u2019s call isn\u2019t a serious solution, referring to the 42nd president. \u201cMr. Clinton tried the same thing\u2026didn\u2019t work.\u201d It\u2019s true. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) determined after the 1994 ban expired in 2004 it did not reduce crime and the impact on gun violence of renewing it would be \u201ctoo small for reliable measurement.\u201d Reason.com just highlighted what NSSF industry data has shown all along: the number of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs) in private circulation has grown exponentially since 1990 while unintentional firearm fatalities have reached record lows and overall crime involving firearms has trended lower.<\/p>\n And, even if there were enough votes in Congress to ban MSRs, such a law would violate the Second Amendment based on the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s holding in Heller and, more recently, in Bruen.<\/p>\n More Pinocchios, Please \u201cEliminate the gun manufacturers\u2019 immunity from liability,\u201d the president said. Here, he\u2019s just flat wrong. It was wrong when he falsely claimed one year ago in The White House Rose Garden, \u201cThey [manufacturers] are the only outfit \u2014 (applause) \u2014 they\u2019re the only outfit in the country that is immune.\u201d Before that, at a \u201cGun Violence Strategies Partnership\u201d event in New York City, he was joined by Attorney General Merrick Garland, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and remarked, \u201cImagine had we had a liabil\u2026 [sic] they\u2019re the only industry in America that is exempted from being able to be sued by the public. Only one. Why the gun manufacturers?\u201d<\/p>\n It wasn\u2019t true then, it\u2019s not true now. It was a lie then and it\u2019s still a lie. The Washington Post, CNN, PolitiFact, the Associated Press and many more have all rebuked the president on his false claim. \u201cThey [firearm manufacturers] are not exempt or immune from being sued,\u201d wrote the AP. \u201cGun manufacturers can certainly be sued\u2026Biden is wrong to say gun manufacturers are alone,\u201d was the Washington Post\u2019s response.<\/p>\n The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) protects firearm manufacturers from frivolous lawsuits that seek to blame them for the criminal misuse of legal, non-defective lawfully sold firearms by remote third parties who are beyond the control of manufacturers. Allowing a member of the firearm industry to be sued for the criminal misuse of a firearm would be like allowing Ford to be sued by the victim of a drunk driving accident because a Ford was driven by someone under the influence of alcohol.<\/p>\n What\u2019s Left? The president\u2019s last demand \u2013 \u201crequiring safe storage of firearms\u201d \u2013 is unconstitutional as the Supreme Court ruled in its Heller decision in 2008. NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi has testified against both federal and state mandatory storage laws while supporting other safe storage options.<\/p>\n The firearm industry remains committed to the hard work needed to reduce access to firearms by prohibited individuals and those who cannot be trusted with a firearm. It\u2019s something the entire gun-owning community agrees on and it takes serious and sober discussions about how to best accomplish that critical goal. The president\u2019s repeated pattern of putting empty politics over serious policy proposals shows where his focus is. 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\nThe president\u2019s desire to ban so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d is never-ending, even though he runs into resistance from his own party, not to mention a majority of Americans. The data doesn\u2019t support a ban on the more than 24.4 million legally-owned Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs). The president got pushback.<\/p>\n
\nIn yet another sign demonstrating the president\u2019s continued unseriousness about his plans to hold criminals accountable, he again repeated a lie he\u2019s been called out on several times before. It\u2019s not like the administration doesn\u2019t know their own favored media outlets have told them they\u2019re making false statements. They know \u2013 they just keep repeating the lie.<\/p>\n
\nThe president has received a fair amount of unfriendly fire from would-be allies who believe he isn\u2019t \u201cdoing enough\u201d to pass more gun control restrictions. Never mind his proposals don\u2019t have support of all Democrats in the U.S. Senate majority. Every firearm sold at retail requires the buyer to pass an FBI National Instant Criminals Background Check System (NICS) verification in order to take the firearm home. Requiring a NICS check on private firearm sales necessitates a national firearm registry in order to work \u2013 and that is already outlawed by the 1986 Gun Control Act, the Brady Act of 1993 and an appropriation law funding ATF.<\/p>\n