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NSSF: Biden’s Two-Step Plan to Dismantle Gun Industry

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Today, the National Shooting Sports Foundation‘s Larry Keane describes President Biden’s 1-2 punch strategy to put the gun industry on the mat.

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President Joe Biden is throwing out just a few feeler jabs in his gun control fight. He’s talked of bans and repealing laws, which are certainly worthy of throwing up a guard to keep them from landing. Make no mistake. His fight plan is one of disciplined patience versus throwing haymakers.

He’s already setting up for a 1-2 combination that he believes would send the industry to the mat. He’s not looking to just win the round or the fight. He’s looking beyond the title. President Biden wants a knockout against the firearm industry that’s so painful, there’s no talk about a rematch.

President Biden is doing this by landing hard blows against the firearm industry’s ability to gain footing financially. He’s not fighting fair either. President Biden is swinging below the belt.

Round One

The president’s “be first” strategy started just eight days after he was sworn into office. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is structured to be independent of the Executive Branch so it isn’t vulnerable to political influence, hurriedly announced a “pause” of the Fair Access banking rule.

It was a convenient block of a rule that would have ended discriminatory lending practices targeted against the firearm industry and other industries. Banks have been denying services simply because an industry was out of political favor. This isn’t disqualification because the customer’s business was unlawful or a poor credit risk, but because the customer’s business fell within an industry that “woke” corporate bank board members found distasteful.

The Fair Access rule would have made it a fair and even match-up. It would have stopped big banks from picking winners and losers based on executives’ personal politics and protected banks from outside pressure from special interest groups to take a dive when it came to seeking to do business with members of the firearm industry.

It put an end to the privatization of the illegal Operation Choke Point that was started by the Obama administration, run through the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) that denied banking services to the firearm industry.

That’s like the referee loading up a fighter’s gloves right before the bout starts. But the ref got caught. When the Biden administration “paused” the Fair Access rule, they basically winked at the cornerman, letting him know that as long as the gloves are loaded up in the locker room, he’s not going to stop it.

Round Two

The Fair Access banking rule is just the first of two strikes intended to buckle the knees of the firearm industry. The second devastating shot is if President Biden gets his way and convinces Congress to repeal the bipartisan Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA). This move would expose firearm and ammunition manufacturers and sellers to an avalanche of frivolous lawsuits by activist trial lawyers and gun control groups backed by their stable of big “white shoe” corporate law firms. The real intent is bankrupting the industry or, due to mounting legal fees, they are forced to throw in the towel and enter settlement agreements for court-imposed gun control measures. Repealing the bipartisan PLCAA would turn the ring into a no-holds-barred, no-rules, anything-goes cage match.

President Biden isn’t proposing holding criminals accountable for their horrific crimes but wants to allow special interest groups to exploit horrific crimes to land body blows against the firearm industry. It lines lawyers’ pockets and crushes businesses and jobs. This move does nothing to protect the public.

President Biden is blame shifting. He’s shifting accountability for criminal actions away from the individual who committed a crime and putting it on manufacturers and retailers. To mix metaphors, it’s like suing Ford for the wrongful deaths caused by drunk drivers. The car maker didn’t cause the criminal to commit a crime that tragically took a life. The same with firearm manufacturers and retailers. Criminals must be held accountable.

President Biden isn’t concerned about accountability. He’s looking to hit hard and if it means changing the rules to get his way, he’s not above landing kidney punches.

This fight is a rematch, however. The PLCAA was passed with broad bipartisan support in 2005 as a direct result of a wave of lawsuits filed by several dozen big city mayors in cahoots with the Brady Center and greedy trial lawyers looking for a payday.

Fighter Retire

This is what the firearm industry is facing. It is not a fair fight or one based on truth. It is going to be dirty. It is going to be emotional and it is going to be drawn out. It is, after all, the fight for the firearm industry’s very existence.

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  1. There is no such thing as ‘common sense gun control and semi-automatic weapons are not military, I live in a constitutional carry state and do.

  2. This administration doesn’t have to do anything. Gun owners are already doing to themselves. I got a notification that some ammo I wanted was back in stock, It had more than doubled in price since the last time I bought a box in October (Which was too high then). It is now $1.20 per round for REMANUFACTURED .223 V-max. I don’t think we can dismiss this by just stating “supply & demand.” Why is there so much demand? Because gun owners are hording ammo. Ammo of all types and reloading supplies are gone from everywhere. And when they come back we’ll complain about the prices. We are making hunting and shooting a sport for the wealthy. Hording has now made it too costly to shoot, even what is on hand. Turns out, we, gun owners, are the “Gun Grabbers” not the liberal Democrats, and we have shot ourselves in the foot.

  3. The firearms industry need to form their own banks, separate from the norm to counteract what the Gov’t is doing. Those banks would not be open to the public. It would only be formed to insure the firearms industry can survive. It would also requite them to create their own means of shipping their products.

    There’s a lot of loose ends not listed here. but this is a start. It’s a matter of fact for survival. They will have to fill in the blanks for what they need. The Window is open for you to add your thoughts on this matter.

    • I’ve already suggested to the NSSF and Chris Killoy, CEO of Ruger, that the industry needs to both start accepting cryptocurrency, and form a national credit union for firearms related businesses and their customers. The charter could require that individuals be firearms owners and/or hunters, regular shooting sports competitors, members of the NRA, GOA or similar organizations, etc.. This would both prevent the industry from being denied financial services, and leave the big banks and credit companies trying to explain and justify billions in lost profit and the sudden exodus of customers to their shareholders.

  4. Beyond the immigration and over-amplified flu from last year, the people have been pretty much out of work for the last year. This has broken many essential habits for a good workforce, and established others that cannot continue if one is regularly working. Beyond that, many manufacturers have installed robots and automation as dependable (or any!) workers were not available. When & if they ever stop counting the $10,000 bounty payments, many folks are not going to be able to find a job. And many will not care, as this was the plan to get the rest of society into dependency mode. ‘Guaranteed Annual Income’ or universal welfare will snuff most of the remaining initiative in the population. Problem: People with guns do not herd well. We’ll see how this latest political debacle plays out.

  5. Let’s not forget what the term socialist means. Remember the old USSR? United Soviet socialist republics. The Dems have become little indoctrinated Marxist/Communists if you don’t agree then you need to wake up and do some research.

  6. There’s the trees and then the forest; it is not the 2nd Amendment that they want; it is the entire Constitution.

    Wake up!

  7. The only thing I see from all this crap by the left is to support crime to maximize tax revenue and absolute control of WE THE PEOPLE!
    As for the one individual (you know who you are) you can take your crystal ball mind reading expert opinion and shove it sideways where the sun don’t shine!!! I am tired of your types telling me who I am and what I’m going to do, when you don’t know jack about me or even want to talk to me. You are nothing but a pawn and in the eyes of your masters and ain’t worth squat anything past a propaganda machine.

  9. The old unhinged man and the commie women are both out to turn us communist.First the guns then the rest of our rights. They want a war so they can turn to the CCP for protection. Hopefully before we did them in.

  10. I went to hire a yard worker at the “Casual Corner” this morning. Now, I live in Texas, where the Minimum Wage is $7.25, and since I recognize their need, customarily offer $1./hr., but the unemployed American Citizens and illegal alians who congregate there looking for short term work have established their Minimum Wage to be $15.00/hr.! More than twice the state-wide standard. From me, they got nothing. I am 73 years old, and will not bow to extortion. [Bad knees.]

  11. you aint seen nothing yet. how many people unemployed, covid 19 sickness, business closed, and this administration wants to allow unlimited immigration to add to the misery. illegals seeking competition for our lost jobs (causing lower wages because more people for the same position), unvaccinated ( more sickness on top of what we have now), over burden the health care system, we have to support them (medicare & medicaid) food stamps, rent subsidies, drug, dental eyeglasses, school systems overloaded. this is not racism its economics 101. we need controlled immigration a quota system like there was after ww2. the only reason they want unlimited immigration is to get elected again as payment for the policy of open borders.

    • RIGHT ON BROTHER!! I have BEEN SAYING THIS THE LAST TEN YEARS. DID NOT THINK ANYONE WAS LISTING.

  12. Should the biden clowns be successful in destroying the firearms industry, just where will the police and military guns come from? Maybe beg for guns from Great Britain like they did in WWII?

    • Easy, the government wants to “nationalize” industries and if they succeed they’ll cut out the civilian purchaser. Therefore M&P will be the only ones armed .

  13. works for me! If the NRA and the gun manufacturers had accepted common sense gun control instead of trying to put AN AK47 in every household, they wouldn’t be facing this.

    • No they do not have to accept Communist lead gun control. If they had then this country would be a more unsafe to live in. The parts of the United States that have massive gun control has the highest violence rates in the country. So you go and live in one of those communist countries you like so much

    • RT:

      May machine guns be transferred from one registered possessor to another?

      Yes. If the machine gun was lawfully registered and possessed before May 19, 1986, it may be transferred pursuant to an approved ATF Form 3 or Form 4, as applicable.

      [18 U.S.C. 922(o)(2); 26 U.S.C. 5812]

      Anything else is illegal. The transfer fee is hefty. Nobody was putting an AK-47 in anybody’s hands! Please know your subject before making a complete ass of yourself!

    • The NRA doesn’t “put” firearms anywhere. They don’t sell guns. Nothing requires anyone to have a firearm.
      Back to “common sense”.
      There are more people in this country killed by alcohol than by guns. Not only by drunk drivers, but by health issues caused by long term use. Let’s start slow, however, and deal only with drunk drivers. I think it would be a “common sense” step to require a license to purchase alcohol, and that license would preclude possession of a license to drive, and vice-versa. You can drink, or you can drive, not both. Oh, by the way, NEITHER of those activities are protected by the Constitution.
      There are more murders using knives, fists, baseball bats, bricks, etc. Britain tried their “common sense” gun control and outlawed all of them. Knife murders went way up. They then had to outlaw knives with sharp points like steak knives, pocket knives, and chef’s knives.

      The solution is not gun control, it is criminal control. This brings to mind a quote from Colonel Jeff Cooper “If violent crime is to curbed, it is the intended victim who can do it. The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither the judge nor jury. Therefore, what he must be taught is to fear his victim.”

      • I too don’t understand some things, I know they want my gun and the laws protect my right as a law abiding firearm owner. Points brought up. Drunk drivers kill moor than lawful gun owners, but a over 21 person can go in the neighborhood store and buy 25 cases of beer go out the door and give the beer to a 18 year old, you can have a keg party and have 75 kegs that’s ok. Now lets just allow someone to purchase just 1 six pack, give your beer number to the clerk, inter this into the beer database and that is all you can have for 24hrs. Just 1 drink at the bar. You get my drift.
        How about the car makers why are they allowed to make a car that will go over 70mph that is the speed limit would save lives no doubt. Mabey you could sue the car manufactures because they made a car that will break the speed laws.
        If someone uses a gun to rob, steel, hurt or kill a person on purpose lock the up for years, oh that is the law. Lawyers need jobs to get them out of the mess. Drug dealers and gangs are the ones doing the drive by shootings again their are laws on the books lock them up. Street racing and taking over highways are killing kids, again fast cars, drugs and alcohol.
        The woke crowd tells us that if you have sex get pregnant just kill the baby (oh the baby is still in the mom ) , birth control is cheep . I could go on and on.
        Just thoughts.

      • so your saying in your delusional rant that if an American wants to drink they should be required to surrender their driver’s license?! don’t tread on me you commie liberal piece of sh1t! come try to take, my cold beer, guns or any other of my constitutional rights as an American citizen 🇺🇸

    • RT , I have some news for you , we have been giving in to the gun control crowd . You don’t seem to realize that is their mod us operand i , a little piece here , a little piece there until our rights ore completely gone . It is time we take a stand and say no more , It is a protected right , to own a firearm and protect our and our loved ones lives .

    • RT you brand yourself as Communist inspired and ignorant as soon as you use the term “common sense laws”, there is nothing common nor sensible in most such laws. The Second Amendment simply legalizes the God given right to defend oneself and their loved ones, so your babblebuzz is stupid on the face of it. Thank you for exposing your ignorance.

    • RT…..
      Read the Constitution and pay attention to the 2nd Amendment. The only gun control required lies within the 2nd A. Obviously you be of the commie control factor of all whom actually read and understand…..wtfu!

    • Hey RT, when you get robbed some day in the streets or in your home you will hope that someone will come to your rescue. I suppose you also support defunding our police?

  14. He’s nuts, I think he will be gone before he can do too much damage, people are seeing what a hypocrite he is.

  15. No American Gun and Ammo Manufacturers? Well, let’s ask China and Russia if they will supply our Military with the weapons and ammo they need? Think not. People of America need to wake up and vote ALL of the current elected officials out of office and replace them with new people and with TERM LIMITS and not all of the side PERKS they get at the tax payers expense.

  16. Renumber what “We The People did in the mid 1700’s.
    It’s past the time to feed the tree of liberty.
    We The-people need to quit sitting on our back sides and wringing our hands.
    Just think what would happen if all the Red area’s stopped doing any kind of business with the blue areas.
    Again it’;s past time to act.
    It may hurt financially but it could save America. And it will become necessary yo defend our Red areas.

    • Yes the red states need to stop doing business with the blue states but it would have to be the state’s that do it along with the people not buying anything that comes from the blue states and if they do change a higher tax on their purchases.

    • Exactly!! As Patrick Henry asked “Is life so dear or peace so sweet…..? History shows that people will have and retain only those rights and freedoms for which they are willing to kill and die. Once the 2nd Amendment is gone the others will inevitably follow because governments crave power and without an armed populace the only protection citizens have against government tyranny is the government itself. Ever hear of giving the wolf a key to the barn?

  17. Obiden is his name. He is doing Obama’s works. Every time you use Biden’s name you should say Obiden. Obiden

  18. I have sat back and have watched and listened for closely over the past 10-15 yrs over gun right and protecting our 2nd amendment right. I believe that we need to become not just defensive but offensive on nature.
    What I am simply saying is that we the people should come up with rules makers rather than to just sit back and make defensive expletives about anti gun law makers. Because reassured that sometime within our future laws will change, and I would like to know that I have been apart of these processes, because our heads over NRA have collapses and we no longer have to totally concede.

    • Silly remarks. Gun fanatics are constantly on the attack over perceived attempts to regulate guns and ownership. It’s a childish, paranoid reaction and marks you people as heartless, demented asses.

      • “PERCEIVED”? If you mean “1. to become aware or conscious of (something); come to realize or understand” then you are correct. We are well aware of of the hundreds of laws on the books to regulate our ownership and we don’t like it.

        If, however, you mean “2. interpret or look on (someone or something) in a particular way; regard as:” then I suggest you go try to buy a gun. Be sure to comply with the “perceived” Federal, State, and Local transportation and storage laws.

        More people are killed by drunk drivers than by guns. How would you feel about requiring every vehicle in the country to be equipped with a breathalyzer that you had to blow into before it would start? You have to pay for it of course. And if you blow into it for someone else, you lose driving privileges forever.

      • RT – your reply is typical of your liberal friends. When you can’t form a legitimate argument, you resort to name calling. Just because our opinion is different than yours, does not make us childish, paranoid, hateful, heartless, racist, or wrong. When you look at the numerous bills that our representatives in Congress are proposing with intent to regulate guns and gun ownership, that is not perception, but reality. the big question is why more regulation when the rules currently in place do not stop the bad guys from breaking the law?

        • I beg to differ with you on one point. That does make us “racist”… but you have to understand that in today’s world, one definition of “racist” (and various other istaphobe terms) is anything or anyone who offends or disagrees with a liberal. Just look at their usage of it. With rare exception, whenever a liberal, especially one of color, is criticized by a Republican (and occasional another democrat) about anything, they are accused of being racist along with various other istaphobe terms. Critics of Obama’s policies were called racist. When President Trump enacted the ban on travel between China (the source of the virus) and the U.S., Biden called it racist and xenophobic (a common istaphobic term). Being called a racist nowadays doesn’t necessarily mean you are a bad person, it usually just means you pissed off a liberal.

  19. I worked for RG industries from late 1981 I think (right after Hinckley attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan) to when they shut their doors in the US in 1986. I was highered as the assistant sales manager and then promoted to National and International Sales manager within 6 months. RG Ind. guns were considered “Saturday Night Specials” by the media, police and most of the gun industry. TV show 20-20 even did an expose. Yes they were cheap zink alloy with Steel sleeve and cylinder. At the time I was just out of the Army Infantry after 4 years, and found a job in a Gun and Pawn in Miami. I sold a bunch of them 25’s like the Raven and mod 31 and 38, I thought they were crap but served a need. One day an old lady came in and said the needed a gun because she was afraid. Every day leaving her house and coming back in the dark. She lived in Liberty City which in 1981 I considered a rough part of town. I tried selling a S&W 36, Charter Arms everything but eventually went to the RG31 a 5 shot 38 spl. that you had to pull the pin out to slide the cylinder out to load. You see it was the only gun other than 25 semi autos for under $100.00 and that’s all she could afford. She didn’t even want a box of bullets and asked to buy 5 because she knew she’d never have time to reload. I felt bad for her because I understood how scared she was with the punks in the street yelling and threatening her to and from home, so I bought myself a box of silver tips for myself and gave her 5. Point of this story is during that time there was no protection for firearms companies it was before that law was passed and RG was hit with product liability lawsuits left and right. All because the guns worked. The Parent company of RG ind was Rohm GMBH they were the world #1 Drill Chuck Maker from hand drills to huge Oil Drills 10 feet tall. The Gun Company was one of the sons hobbies so for them it wasn’t worth the trouble. The points Im trying to make is 1st. When we were getting our ass sued off left and right no one stood by us, everyone in the industry had the “good riddance” attitude especially the NRA. It happened with Bump stocks recently after the attack in Las Vegas and when Trump said it was more important to take away the guns from a dangerous person first and verify second. We need to be a united front.. 2nd. Product liability lawsuits are the fastest way to destroy a company because if a bad guy shoots someone good or bad,the person, if they survive or their family can sue the gun company because the gun Worked! If one person in in the family shoots someone else in the family by accident because they didn’t follow the 4 safety rules.they can sue the gun companies. There is no safety in the world that can protect people from accidental or negligent discharges They are frivolous lawsuits designed to wear down the finances of that company. Again we need to unify against this attack and every other attempt Binden and company are going to employ or the gun industry will cease to exist.

    • THIS MAN HAS MORE INSIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE FROM EXPERIANCE, THAN ANYONE ELSE POSTING ON HERE THIS MORNING. GOOD TO YA FOR SHARING. IT IS VERY ENLIGHTNING. AND YOU NAH SAYERS NEED TO TAKE SEVERAL MOMENTS AND REFLECT ON HIS WISDOM. I REMEMBER WORKING IN A GUN SHOP BACK THEN AND CUSSING THOSE ” SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIALS “.

  20. Is there any chance in hell that gun rights advocates could do something our politicians can’t do and stop fighting each other and unite to save our constitution and rights. Wouldnt it be wonderful if the GOA, FPC, NRA, NAGR, and all the state groups, gun clubs, gun sports, supportive politicians, gun businesses and citizens could stand together, get organized and stop this insanity? We would be unstoppable against Joe the dictator, Beto, Bloomberg and all of the rest of the haters would stop without our support and our dollars. Just imagine.
    FED UP 1A 2A or else.

  21. If the PLCAA law is reversed, then I hope they realize that this will open the door for lawsuits against anyone’s who’s products are used, causing injury, or death. The auto industry would be first on that list, because more people are killed, and maimed in car accidents every year than Guns, by the thousands. This will only enrich the worst bottom feeders, and POS lawyers in the country, creating nothing, and destroying everything they touch.

  22. The gun industry can fight back by not bidding on any Government firearms contracts. One the other hand if he puts the gun and ammo business out of business where will the get guns and ammo.

    • Foreign owned and controlled gun companies will pick up in the government contracts and will profit from our losses….

    • They can get it from across the pond. The Government sidearm was an Italian Berretta no a German Sig Sauer.

    • Just like Trump had the car companies start
      Making breathing equipment to function in a national emergency which really is nothing more than a hoax Biden would just send in the military or some other jack booted thug organization say the ATF and take the facilities and the commodities and make them themselves. The federal
      Government does not recognize the law they do not recognize rights of any one except themselves. I am not bashing Trump in this article what I am doing is just giving a glaring example
      Of what they will
      Do. My only complaint against Trump
      In this situation with Covid is that he should have called the bluff and fired Fauci. But back to Biden they are nothing more than Jack Bottes Thigs the whole
      Lot of them

      • Remington said that they’d make medical equipment to help fight covid, but Cuomo denied their request and refused to issue the proper permits.

        The same will happen to every gun maker who wants to switch industries. They will be denied licenses and permits for everything that they’d want to produce that requires them.

  23. The Communists/Race Pimps had their coup,freedom is their enemy.Sad that lessons already learned the hard way many times ,must be repeated.

  24. We all know that bye-done is a DISHONORABLE, CHEATING, TRAITOROUS, LOW-LIFE, SCUM SUCKING, PIECE OF SHIT who is hell bent on DESTROYING our Country anyway he can for his CHINESE MASTERS…!!!
    He is the WORST thing to ever happen to our NATION and he is never going to stop…!!!
    He has become a PARASITIC CANCER that is DEVOURING EVERYTHING that made our NATION GREAT…!!!
    This PARIAH wants to turn our once great NATION into another THIRD WORLD CESSPOOL…!!!
    We can not allow his TREASONOUS AMBITIONS to Ruin our HOME and the LAND that we LOVE, have GOUGHT for, DIED for, and SACRIFICED so much for just to appease some MEGALOMANIAC’S TWISTED AND PERVERSE FANTASIES…!!!
    All of the Firearm Manufacturers and Patriots of America need to REFUSE ANY AND ALL of his TOTALITARIAN DICTORIAL DELUSIONS and NEVER COMPLY with ANYTHING THAT GOES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION OR GOD’S WILL…!!!
    We, the TRUE PATRIOTS will have your backs and We will support you through this…!!!
    GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ALL WHO STAND FOR IT…!!!

    • Amen brother. Has never been spoken a better truth. Wake up patriots, and start defending this great country, and we will save ourselves.

    • I’ve been a firearms owner/carrier my entire adult life–through several Democratic administrations and never once have I felt my right to carry, shoot, hunt with or purchase firearms or ammo has been in danger. I’m a veteran of two wars where I have taken lives–with firearms. Our country absolutely needs a revamp of the gun laws. I’m guessing you’re not a veteran nor are you unlucky enough to have fired any of your firearms in anger, let alone taken a life with one. They are the worst memories of my life. If our country decided to ban firearms I’d be the first at the beach to chuck them into the ocean. Don’t be so quick to display your anti-gun regulation zeal. You just look crazy to me. And you’re no doubt young too, minus a degree and without children of your own. When you’ve seen what guns, big, mean guns can do to a body up close, well hopefully you’d change your train of thought a little. It’s ugly, just like your crazy rhetoric

    • He is going to stop because the party that hijacked the democrats and controls Biden’s puppet strings is going to throw him out , The Democratic Socialists of America are in control and Harris will be even worse.

      • Exactly, he is not our legally elected president. Our legally elected president Trump is waiting on us to begin our correction of this matter.