U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Those tuning in to watch President Biden’s State of the Union address saw and heard a few things when he entered the U.S. House of Representatives to address Congress and the nation. There is a new Speaker of the House – Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.). He was seated next to Vice President Kamala Harris, a visual reminder of the divided government. Military generals and U.S. Supreme Court justices were in attendance, along with Members of Congress and senators.
President Biden banged the usual drum demanding to renew the Assault Weapons Ban. That’s the law he along with U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) ushered in in 1994, and President Bill Clinton signed into law that banned the sale of Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs). That ban expired in 2004, and the semiautomatic rifle has since become the most-popular selling centerfire rifle in America – with over 24.4 million in circulation today.
President Biden scolded Congress for not sending him legislation to renew this unconstitutional ban on these commonly-owned commonly-used rifles. Never mind that the U.S. Supreme Court made clear in the Heller, McDonald, and Bruen decisions that any such ban is unconstitutional.
What President Biden didn’t tell the American public – and won’t – is what the rest of America is saying about any proposed ban. Over half the country doesn’t want it, according to a recent poll by ABC News/Washington Post.
Cratering Support
Respondents to the poll released just days before the State of the Union speech showed that 51 percent surveyed oppose any such ban. That’s a 10-point increase from 2019 when the same question was asked. Just 47 percent of those responding – a nine-point drop – voiced support for banning MSRs, the second lowest percentage reported since the question was put forth in the polls starting in 1995.
That’s not something President Biden will admit to the American public. Instead, he stuck to his worn-out tropes to demonize the rifle as he’s repeatedly done in the past. He called it an “assault weapon.” It’s not. The MSR is a semiautomatic rifle that operates the same way as popular duck-hunting shotguns and semiautomatic handguns used daily for personal protection. One cartridge is expended each time the trigger is pressed.
That’s just one of President Biden’s favorite falsehoods about firearms, which have been fact-checked time and again.
“Do you realize the bullet out of an AR-15 travels five times as rapidly as a bullet shot out of any other gun?” President Biden said in Pennsylvania last summer. Not true. Fox News referenced a Field & Stream study of cartridge speeds that shot that one down.
President Biden, in that same Pennsylvania speech, questioned the rationale of why anyone would use MSRs outside of combat. Again, the president is conflating the military’s automatic M-16 and M-4 with MSRs, but he clearly ignores that these rifles are used for lawful purposes every day, including hunting, recreational target shooting, and self-defense.
He wasn’t done. He also claimed that federally-licensed firearm retailers are “providing the weapons to anybody who has the money.” Again, not true. Firearms are sold only to those who are over the age of 18 and clear the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
Presidential Patterns
This wasn’t the first time President Biden used the State of the Union to spread half-truths. Last year, he scolded Congress to give him one of his gun control wish-list items repealing the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).
“Repeal the liability shield that makes gun manufacturers the only industry in America that can’t be sued, the only one,” he said.
The Associated Press called him out on that lie.
AP reported, “THE FACTS: That’s false. While gun manufacturers do have legal protections from being held liable for injuries caused by criminal misuse of their weapons thanks to the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, they are not exempt or immune from being sued.”
PLCAA protections aren’t dissimilar to other industries, including pharmaceuticals and medical device manufacturers.
President Biden demanded unconstitutional gun bans to score a few cheap political points with radical special-interest gun control groups. The problem for Americans is he does it while ignoring the Constitution, U.S. Supreme Court decisions to uphold the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens and now ignores the citizens themselves.
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Dementia Joe doesn’t matter, and he can shove his lies where the sun don’t shine. Any bill or exec order on AR’s will be unconstitutional and thus ignored, and if the petty tyrants pulling Joe’s strings move on this, they will be sorry. Americans will repeat the actions of the founders, when the greatest military on earth attempted to disarm them. There are 100’s of armed Americans for every gov employee, while only a smal percentage of gov employees are armed.
“while only a smal percentage of gov employees are armed.” Or have the proficiency in the use of these tools.
That’s because most government employees are tools and tool bags .
The Usurper Bidet is a thoroughly disgusting man, but remember, at this stage, he’s a sock puppet, doing what he’s told and reading someone else’s words off a teleprompter.
Never watched the clownshow nor do I care what the demented idiot parroted from his handlers . It’s all bullshit and Joe Biden is a braindead moron that lacks the mental capacity to even know what day it is or what he had for breakfast. The whole Biden administration is a shitshow .
the only thing to come out of a democrats mouth is hot air and lies. Arizona you are 100% correct
Vote? Seriously? Maybe in local elections otherwise a waste of time.
Like in Arizona? How exactly is that going to get fixed with the foxes guarding the henhouse? TINVOWOOT!
There is no bigger turning point than the 2020 election being stolen, and the 2022 midterms saw even more obvious fraud in AZ. The GOPe pukes allowed the fraud in the governor’s race- that is how crooked it is. We are down to the last box.
You are wrong. I guess you would be one who would just get into the boxcar, fighting back is a waste of time. That logic is for losers and weaklings, it sickens me to the point of revulsion.
Colorado’s DemocRAT legislators plan to introduce a bill that would allow Colorado gun violence victims to sue firearm manufacturers. I wonder if there will be companion legislation that will allow the innocent victims of DUI crashes to sue the company that made the car driven by the drunk driver or the dealership that sold him the car ?
“State of the Union?” More like Biden’s ” State Of Confusion” speech, Chaper #2. All I heard was a repeat of all the Lies he’s told for the last 50 years. Bifen’s main contribution to the 1994 AWB was writing the Senate Version of the bill that passed that had already passed the House. He didn’t personally take on the NRA though he makes it sound like he had a Cage Match with Wayne Lapierre. Personally, I’m to the point of not caring what these douchebags do, I won’t comply. This Long Train of Abuses and Ursurpations needs to be… Read more »
“No state shall convert a liberty into a license, an charge a fee therefore.” Murdock v. Pennsylvania, 319 U.S. 105 (1943). “If the State converts a right (liberty) into a privilege, the citizen can ignore the license and fee and engage in the right (liberty) with impunity.” Shuttlesworth v. City of Birmingham, Alabama, 373 U.S. 262 (1969).