Well, it’s SloJoe. We shouldn’t expect him to make sense<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s Latest Anti-Gun Claims Aren\u2019t Just False \u2014 They Don\u2019t Even Make Sense<\/a><\/p>\n Biden\u2019s most recent anti-gun claims during the National Safer Communities Summit are false, incomplete, and incoherent.<\/em><\/p>\n Biden\u2019s gun control speech on Friday at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut got attention because the president nonsensically concluded with \u201cGod save the Queen, man.\u201d However, this was not his only incoherent claim.<\/p>\n In his\u00a0speech<\/a>, Biden stated: \u201cPut a pistol on a brace, and it ma- \u2014 turns into a gun. Makes them where you can have a higher-caliber weapon \u2014 a higher-caliber bullet coming out of that gun. It\u2019s essentially turning it into a short-barreled rifle, which has been a weapon of choice by a number of mass shooters.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, a \u201cstabilizing brace\u201d doesn\u2019t turn a pistol into a gun. A pistol already is a gun.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, stabilizing braces have only been used in\u00a0two mass public<\/a>\u00a0shootings (Dayton, Ohio, in 2019 and Boulder, Colorado, in 2021), but there is no evidence that the braces even made any difference in these attacks.<\/p>\n Even so, few realize that stabilizing braces were\u00a0originally designed<\/a>\u00a0to allow veterans with hand disabilities to hold handguns, not for mass shooters to commit a crime more effectively. The braces are straps that allow the disabled person to keep hold of the gun when it recoils. Without a gun and a steady aim, disabled people are very vulnerable to criminals. But Biden will never mention that.<\/p>\n Even when pistol braces are used among law-abiding gun owners who are not disabled, their personal efforts to ensure steadier aim are not inherently negative or dangerous.<\/p>\n If Biden is worried about the dangerous potential of more powerful guns with less recoil, he should also address the various ways they can be obtained apart from stabilizing braces.\u00a0<\/strong>For example, rifles are powerful weapons \u2014\u00a070 out of 82<\/a>\u00a0bullets used in rifles are ranked as more powerful than a .223. If a criminal wants reduced recoil, he can simply use a rifle \u2014 heavier guns dampen the recoil, and rifles weigh more.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, in guns with short barrels, such as pistols, the bullet leaves the barrel before full pressure is developed and travels at a lower velocity. However, if an attacker wants a more powerful\u00a0and<\/em>\u00a0more compact gun, there are alternatives to handguns. He can easily saw off part of the barrel of the rifle. After all, when facing multiple life sentences for murder, an additional penalty for sawing off the end of a rifle won\u2019t make much difference.<\/p>\n But even Biden\u2019s claim that short-barrel rifles are the weapon of choice for these mass murderers is also ridiculous. Again, only\u00a0two of the roughly 100<\/a>\u00a0mass public shooters over the last 25 years involved handguns with pistol braces.\u00a0In<\/a>\u00a056.4 percent of mass shootings,\u00a0only<\/em>\u00a0handguns were used (no braces), in 14.9 percent, rifles were used, and in 16 percent of attacks, rifles\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>another type of gun were used.<\/p>\n Finally, there is Biden\u2019s screaming\u00a0claim<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cWe are sending dangerous weapons, particularly assault weapons, to Mexico.\u201d Mexico\u2019s president does indeed\u00a0blame<\/a>\u00a0America for his country\u2019s high murder rate \u2014 in some recent years, it has been\u00a0six times higher<\/a>\u00a0than the rate in the U.S.<\/p>\n According to data<\/a>\u00a0from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), close to 70 percent of all criminally-owned guns in Mexico traced from 2009-2014 came from the U.S. A significant number of these were purchased legally in southwest states before being criminally smuggled over the border.<\/p>\n However, these figures are based only on the limited number of guns that Mexican authorities have seized, traced, and submitted to the agency for checking. For instance, Mexico submitted\u00a011,000 guns<\/a>\u00a0to the ATF in 2007-08, though it seized 29,000. Of those, they successfully traced 6,000, and 5,114 (or 85 percent) of those traceable weapons came from the U.S. Thus, only about 17.6 percent of the firearms that Mexico collected were traced back to the U.S.\u00a0That\u2019s a small subset.<\/p>\n More\u00a0recent data<\/a>\u00a0from the ATF for 2016 to 2021 even shows that the 70 percent has declined to around 50 percent, but we don\u2019t have the rest of the breakdown in the numbers for this later period. And a 2016 U.S. Government Accountability Office\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0complained of limited collaboration with Mexican authorities on tracing guns.<\/p>\n And what about the fully automatic guns and grenades used to commit murders in Mexico?\u00a0You\u00a0can\u2019t<\/a>\u00a0just go into gun stores in the U.S. and buy these types of weapons. However, between 2005 and 2014, the Mexican government seized more than\u00a013,000 grenades<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThese kinds of guns \u2014 the auto versions of these guns \u2014 they are not coming from El Paso,\u201d Ed Head, an Arizona firearms instructor with over two decades of experience as a U.S. Border Patrol agent\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News. \u201cThey are coming from other sources. They are brought in from Guatemala. They are brought in from places like China. They are being diverted from the military. But you don\u2019t get these guns from the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n Similarly, as an anonymous Tijuana-based police authority\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0Fox News, \u201cMost cartels buy in bulk, and the weapons are coming from places like Nicaragua and other South American countries. Also Asia and some from the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n Machine guns<\/a>,\u00a0grenades<\/a>, and other weapons are also stolen from the Mexican military before being sold to these cartels.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, the news media and their \u201cfact-checkers\u201d are prone to ignore Biden\u2019s false gun claims from misstating how guns work to the source of Mexico\u2019s violent crime problem. Sure, once in a while they acknowledge how\u00a0he lied<\/a>\u00a0about a U.S. cannon ban at the country\u2019s founding. But they refuse to address his lies and how they are unjustly shaping today\u2019s public opinion surrounding gun ownership.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, it’s SloJoe. 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