Second Amendment Foundation to Biden: It’s Shark Week, Baby
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The Second Amendment Foundation today warned the Biden Administration that if it steps over its legal authority with any executive action or order regarding the constitutionally-protected right to keep and bear arms, legal action is a certainty.
President Joe Biden has announced what an administration official calls “an initial set of actions” on gun control that include both executive and legislative action. His proposals will cover so-called “ghost guns,” a proposed national “red flag” law and incentives to the states to adopt similar state-level measures and change the designation of stabilizing braces, which are used by many shooters on AR15-type semiautomatic pistols.
“The devil will be in the details,” acknowledged SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Our legal team will review them and we are prepared to file suit if Biden and his administration steps over their legal authority.”
Gottlieb recalled that Biden has been an ardent gun control advocate during his entire career on Capitol Hill. He included gun control as a major component of his presidential campaign last year, and published reports say he has met with representatives from gun prohibition advocacy groups since taking office.
“Nobody from the Biden administration has reached out to us or any other rights organization to my knowledge, which certainly clarifies Biden’s approach to firearms regulation,” Gottlieb said. “He came into office talking about unity, but he just declared war on tens of millions of law-abiding gun owners who have committed no crimes.”
Biden’s nomination of David Chipman to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is another alarming development, Gottlieb said. The nomination requires Senate confirmation.
“Joe Biden just nominated a man now working for the Giffords gun control lobbying group to head the agency responsible for gun law enforcement,” Gottlieb observed. “That’s not just a bad signal to gun owners. The president has essentially raised the black flag, and we see nothing positive for American gun owners or the firearms industry.”
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Kill ’em, grind ’em up, and EAT THEM!!!!
Good article.
Small gripe. Can you run the comments oldest at the top?
Much easier to read that way.
The Senile Fool’s going to screw around and get removed from office, by force if necessary.
Not likely; although I agree with you…
you do realize he wasn’t voted in right?
In today’s culture this guy would be on trial for the MURDERS he committed at WACO and since he wants to be head of the ATF maybe the Senate should conduct the trial when he goes through the confirmation hearing , If they want to lockup Derek Chauvin for doing his job as a Police officer then this guy should be fair game too
There is one major problem though.. The next in line is Ms KH! I think she is the worst of the pair. At least Joe. Might forget some of his bad ideas before he got around to them.
Any EO that is in conflict with the Constitution/Bill of Rights would be illegal. It would, also, mean that Biden has openly ignored his ‘oath of office’ and that is reason to get him out…along with any who supported that particular EO.
What is this “IF Biden steps over his legal authority”??? Anything less than handing out free bullets is stepping over their legal authority!!
Fuck the ATF, and put joe in the nursing home where he belongs. Obama 1 1/2.
I am really tired of so called ‘gun control’. The laws that have been passed that are called ‘gun control’ do not actually control any guns. The people who abuse firearms do not care about laws. So a law that is trying to control someone’s gun is really only a restriction on someone who follows the law.
Real gun control is how someone controls their own firearm. We need to use the proper terminology when talking about laws. We should stop using the terminology ‘gun control’ and call it what it really is, gun restrictions.
If “Uncle Joe” is such an ardent supporter of gun controls why does’nt he advocate for conviction of his son as a self acknowledged drug addict purchasing a handgun. This is already a felonious act and calls for swift justice to be handed out to help reduce the crime his attempts at law “by decree” would hope to accomplish. We dont need more laws for the honest people we need enforcement of existing laws for bad people.
Biden is a corrupt commie that is in love with the leader of China . He wants the same power and control that his communist buddy in China has . He will regret his actions when he is met with all the lawsuits and Americans thumb thier nose at him . If he thinks he will confiscate weapons, the only thing he will accomplish is starting a civil war . Biden the dictator will go down in history as the most ilegitiment clown to ever sit in the oval office .
Red Flag Laws have already gotten at least 2 innocent people in Maryland killed in their homes. These Unconstitutional Precrime ” Minority Report ” style actions need to be done away with,, not expanded.
If you think they won’t be abused by the left, you are a fool. A doctor in New Jersey got someone’s guns taken away because a patient gave him bad reviews on Yelp.
To the author. Please ask the 2A foundation to look at the arm braces and the Americans with Disabilities Act. You see many disabled vetrans and gun loving disabled patriots put money we saved up into a system that allows us to now enjoy shooting the AR platform again. I myself have neck trauma with nerve damage that radiates into both arms, from service. So now Bejin hidden bidden and Mr bad a$$, I want to be Rambo against unarmed civilians, is gonna make them NFA items which have to be registered and you pay a tax on them. How about we do the same for electric scooter chairs and license them then tax them! Same principle!! As my late Dad would say “That will go over like a turd in the punch bowl at prom”!!!
I’d like to see a link to those stories because they sound like NRA bullshit. But ask yourself how many people were saved by Red Flag laws? And how many angry people could be prevented from doing violence because of them?
You sound like a friggen libtard to me.
There are no link to “stories” I said nothing of stories. I’m a disabled vet that uses an am brace. And when Beijing hidden bidden violates the ADA, I’m gonna sue his a$$ for big bucks. Instead of gun muzzle sucking liberal bullshit, why don’t you provide me with the links of all the NRA members that commited mass shooting? How about instead of red flag laws, let’s outlaw dummycraps from owning guns, since all the mass SHOOTERS were dummycraps. And no! Timothy Micvey wasn’t a mass shooter, he was a cowardly bomber. Get the context of the conversation right before you open your mouth and make a bigger idiot of your self than you probably already are.
Nominating a government sanctioned mass murderer to head Assault Them First lets you see their end game, supposed to frighten us into submission.