Joe Biden is set to issue major and draconian executive orders on gun rights tomorrow. Fox News. One of the executive orders is to regulate so called "ghost guns" which are assembled from parts. He will also recommend "red flag" laws, that allow gun confiscation without conviction of any crime. Two other executive orders will track firearms and order investment into local community violence interventions. Most disturbing though is the attempt to regulate pistols under the National Firearms Act by changing the rules on pistol stabilizing braces. Biden will also recommend former ATF agent Dave Chipman, who was involved in the Waco prosecutions and is a gun control advocate, as the head of the ATF.
EDIT: Biden's executive orders have been released.
My Comment:
I have already contacted my representatives about this. This is something that is extremely easy to do and I encourage all of my readers to send an e-mail or call their elected officials. You can find links to your elected officials using this government website. Below I have posted what I sent to my elected officials (I skipped Joe Biden as I don't think he listens to anyone but feel free to contact him as well, just try not to say anything that can get you arrested).
Greetings. News has broken today that Joe Biden will announce several draconian gun control executive orders. Though the exact text have not been released I have been informed that the will try to ban AR pistols, demand red flag laws and regulate so called "ghost guns". Though all of these laws disturb me greatly and could lead to violence if they are enforced the effort to ban or regulate pistol braces under the National Firearms Act is extremely troubling. AR pistols with braces are among the most popular firearms in America and are owned by millions of gun owners. The executive order would presumably turn all of those millions of gun owners into felons overnight. And gun owners are extremely unlikely to cooperate with demands they register or surrender their firearms. I am asking you to publicly oppose Biden and his gun control actions and do everything in your power to fight these executive orders.
As I said in the post the most disturbing among these is the attempt to ban pistol braces. Millions of gun owners own these and trying to ban them is a fools errand at best and a recipe for civil war at worst. If these pistols and/or braces are regulated as short barreled rifles the owners of those rifles could be charged with a felony with 10 years in prison and a $100,000 fine per weapon. And any effort to actually confiscate these weapons would lead to Ruby Ridge or Waco situations where a lot of innocent people and police/federal agents die.
The ghost gun regulation is a joke. Ghost guns don't really exist other than the fact that people can manufacture their own firearms. Parts kits exist but the lower receiver already counts as a firearm! So ghost guns don't exactly exist unless you are counting things like manufacturing your own lowers. And I don't see how anyone enforces that.
Red flag laws are a joke too but fortunately they are not really something that Biden can effect at the federal level. That requires legislation and it's already clear that the Democrats do not have the votes for any new gun control laws. And in the states blue states already have these terrible laws and red states will never go for them. This executive order is mostly pointless.
As for the rest of the executive orders, it's unclear what they are going to be. We don't have the text of these orders yet and won't until tomorrow. They mostly seem like they will be funding biased studies and pointless programs. I don't think they will do that much harm despite being extremely pointless.
I don't know what happens next. I am assuming that the NRA and other gun rights groups will challenge the AR pistol brace ban. In theory they have a strong case as the Supreme Court has already ruled that the government can't ban commonly used firearms and pistol braces are extremely commonly used. But who knows what the courts will do? The Supreme Court has signaled that they might want to take on gun rights cases but they punted on the New York law case. I think they have the votes to overturn this order, even without John Roberts, but given how cowardly they have been on gun rights in the past few years it's a major concern.
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