Posted on 04/12/2022 9:20:27 AM PDT by rktman
Speaking in the Rose Garden on Monday, an aviator-clad President Biden trotted out more of the same misleading claims Democrats have used for years in their attempts to demonize legal firearm ownership by law-abiding citizens. The speech, meant to announce new executive action to regulate so-called "ghost guns" (a conjured up term to make homemade guns sounds scarier), turned into a gaffe-filled exercise in misinformation.
Repeatedly referring to the ATF as "AFT" — a gaffe that apparently confused the federal agency with the teachers union — Biden also repeated several the left's favorite anti-gun buzzwords and tropes as an excuse to justify his executive action, but — like much of what Biden says — they're just not true.
1. "You couldn't buy a cannon..."
2. "Gun manufacturers have more immunity..."
3. "I got it done once—ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines..."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Fire a shotgun. Sing it.
Three lies? Shirley, Bidung stuttered more than 3 sentences
Stick a fork in it. Republicans and Fox News make fun of Biden one side but then agree with some legislation on this.
Complete abused wife syndrome, they cry and insult but when it comes to physicality, they never social distance from Democrats
This is our problem, the gop and Fox news sticking with them. Democrats and Biden wage their own war on us, and while a nasty one, it is their interests they protect, but us, not so much and it is on us if they walk all over our faces
IF it’s demonic lips were moving, it’s lying....
FJB
What’s more dangerous? A ghost gun or a ghost laptop?...
“Putin Ghost guns” AND they’re haunted too!!
Lie #1 about the cannon. We seem to have purchased a loose cannon November 2020. Biden didn’t challenge that “purchase.”
What’s more dangerous.....a ghost gun or a leader who can’t lead? The gun doesn’t think or do any other thing for itself. If Biden was thinking, he might be more concerned about the criminals wielding the guns. We might also be operating under a better economy than we have. Sometimes the dangerous criminals are caught & prosecuted. How come the dangerous politicians seem to be mostly running free?
What the hell ya need 20 bullets [to shoot a deer] for?
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I’m poaching, with no limit.
And, I might be confronted by a Game Warden.
Could not buy a cannon? Was pretty easy not that long ago.
This “ghost gun” crap is a weapon of mass distraction.
#4 No such thing as a ‘ghost gun’.....
"You couldn't buy a cannon..."
...Americans absolutely could own a cannon both before and after ratification of the Second Amendment. Private ownership of armed ships was common; such ships could have entire batteries of cannon.Both PolitiFact and the Austin American Statesman issued fact-checks of President Biden’s statement and concluded that it was completely false. When we examine the historical evidence, it becomes clear that firearms were almost entirely unregulated at the time of the Second Amendment’s passage. There was little distinction between military armaments and privately owned weapons...
...Perhaps the most damning evidence of outright private ownership of heavy artillery is the existence of privateers.
According to Merriam-Webster, a privateer is, “an armed private ship licensed to attack enemy shipping.” Privateers were essentially naval mercenaries. They were used by many nations throughout the colonial period, including by the United States....
...Poynter Institute’s Politifact fact-checker this week researched the claim and, after consulting with noted Second Amendment scholars such as Professor David Kopel, ranked the statement as being “false” for a variety of reasons....
There were quite a few cannon in private posession among the rebels in the American Revolution. In a few cases there were local batteries formed by a number of citizens from the same town, all of whom owned their own cannon.
The US government further employed at least one privateer during the War of 1812, a certain Jean Lafitte. Point of fact, many Americans still own private cannon. And army tanks. And fighter jets.
There are quite a few tanks in private hands, mostly of WWII or Korean War vintage. Some even still have the functioning cannon and machine guns they'd have worn during wartime. If you've ever been to the Knob Creek machine Gun Shoot, you might even have seen one in action.
Here is a video of the the Demolition Rancher using the blast diverted sideways from the muzzle brake on the cannon (main gun) of a privately-owned post-WWII army tank to destroy a refrigerator.
Non-deactivated main guns are rare (and cost A LOT to shoot) but many more privately-owned tanks (and armored personnel carriers) have working machine guns on them.
You have to be rich to buy a modern fighter jet, and richer still to own and fly one, so there aren't many in private hands, but there are a few.
Bazillionaire Jared Isaacman has his own Mig-29.
An Arizona company called Top Aces owns four -- count 'em: four -- General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcons, and the odd Douglas A4 Skyhawk. Privately.
Don Kirlin (privately) owns his own (private) air force; F/A-18 Hornets, F-16 Fighting Falcons, MiG-29s, Douglas A-4 Skyraiders, Dassault Mirages and on and on.
G**gle's founders own a Dassault Alpha Jet, a bespoke trainer that some less affluent countries use for a fighter jet.
So Joe Bite-Me proves one again he is an inveterate liar, suffering senile dementia, or both.
Then saying something about prostituting instead of prosecuting.
The US is a laughing stock.
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