Biden Calls on Congress to Restrict Gun Ownership

The Epoch Times ^ | February 14, 2021 | Zachary Stieber

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

President Joe Biden on Feb. 14 urged Congress to strengthen existing laws concerning gun ownership on the third anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida.

“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,” Biden said in a statement.

“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.”

In the afternoon of Feb. 14, 2018, a man identified by authorities as Nikolas Cruz, now 22, walked into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland and opened fire with an AR-15 rifle. The shooting left 17 dead, including 14 students. Cruz, who is currently awaiting trial, could face the death penalty.

After the shooting, a number of Parkland students and parents began agitating for stricter gun control laws, arguing that Cruz shouldn’t have been able to obtain a gun. But others pointed to failures by law enforcement, including safety officer Scot Peterson, who has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges for not entering the school building to confront Cruz, and urged restraint on new measures.

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Gee.. Lets negotiate, what do you say.? /s

[The Duke]

"Massive non-compliance. Look how few AR owners registered theirs in New York and Connecticut."

They are not too worried about that. They can use the laws to collect the guns later when you actually use them for something.

[realcleanguy]

It seems Joe Biden is following the Chinese model

[realcleanguy]

Yes, the Democrats love walls and guns to protect themselves from American citizens

[WildHighlander57]

Xi = Grima Wormtongue

Xiden = Theoden

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Trump = Aragorn

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“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,” Biden said in a statement.

I hate the interns who write Joe's boilerplate pabulum with the heat of a million suns.

[usconservative]

My Tagline. As it’s been for over 20 years now.

[pghoilman]

I have to agree. The “Conviction Seven” will stand with the GOP on this and many future issues, now that they aren’t “helping Trump”.

It will be a glorious new era of republican unity (mega-sarc)!

[familyop]

It’s worse than that. Notice the part about “all members of the public” below in regards to the database. And there are other elements of the bill that are worse than what you saw in that comment.

H.R. 127: Sabika Sheikh Firearm Licensing and Registration Act
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr127/text

[Tiny Excerpt:]

“(3)Database
(A)In general
The Attorney General shall establish and maintain a database of all firearms registered pursuant to this subsection.

(B)Access
The Attorney General shall make the contents of the database accessible to all members of the public, all Federal, State, and local law enforcement authorities, all branches of the United States Armed Forces, and all State and local governments, as defined by the Bureau.”

[familyop]

"But don’t they need 60 votes to do away with the filibuster?"

No, they can do it with a simple majority and have been planning to do so. That's why their propaganda effort from within con$ervative forum$ was $o intense to fool conservatives into avoiding the polls in the Georgia runoff elections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_option

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I don't know what happened, because I see it myself. But here ya go:

And just in case you don't see that one, here's the link:

http://www.jimjambo.com/Walter1.png

You should be able to copy it from there.

[pierrem15]

The executive actions proposed are, of course, illegal. Gun parts, including 80% receivers, do not meet the Federal definition of a firearm, and so are not subject to firearm laws. Period. Even some Federal circuits have noticed that a complete AR lower does not meet the Federal definition of a firearm.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I’m so tiawed.

[Taxman]

For some reason, the pic does not show up in your post. When I was able to open it though.

Thanks for the link! That is a keeper!

[logi_cal869]

So now we know why Congress remains an armed fortress...

[familyop]

The first laws you will see coming out of the gun control push will be based on income and class. Soon after, more laws will pass against the remainder, easily outnumbered by everyone previously deprived of their Second Amendment rights.

That’s one of the most effective tactics of incrementalism for ushering in socialism under a much more autocratic government. Oligarchs around the world have been putting enormous sums of money into it for a long time. They’re about to put much more into it. They’ve been planning to control much more autocratic and socialist governments.

[Slyfox]

Hold on a goll darn minute!

Do you mean the darn fool has bumped into something he can't Executive Order himself out of?

[TigersEye]

tagline - American gun owners number more than the top 10 armies combined. What's Biden's enforcement plan?

Bingo!

The DemonRats have been pushing gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• Rounds of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month
  —
  the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

Will the record breaking ever stop?

• April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record May 15, 2019

Looks like it will never stop.

• In Year Of Impeachment More Guns Were Bought Than Any Other Time in US History 2/18/2020

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMONRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[adorno]

Impeach anyone, including Biden, who dares call for the violation of the U.S. Constitution's 2nd Amendment, for it states....

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

The only way that the 2nd Amendment can become irrelevant and non-existent, is by calling for a constitutional convention, and deleting it from the constitution. And, that's never going to happen.

[doorgunner69]

As soon as they go to Chicago and a few other blue cities and collect all the illegal guns I might listen. NOT

I will not listen. The USMC shaped my thinking about firearms when I was 17, no way will I go back on that training.