Biden Put on Notice By State AGs Over Call for “Unconstitutional” Gun Ban

Wednesday’s letter from more than one dozen state attorneys to President Joe Biden slammed his State of the Union call. “unconstitutional” ban on “assault weapons,” Montana AG Austin Knudsen is the leader 

Knudsen — along with attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming — slammed Biden for his “irresponsible and unconstitutional demand that Congress ban firearms commonly used by law-abiding Americans for self-defense.”

Biden was put on notice by the attorneys general “with every tool at our disposal, we will oppose your attempt to trample on Americans’ fundamental right to defend themselves with guns.”

The AG Let me know Notables:

Anti-gun politicians like [Biden] Use the misleading label “assault weapon” Scare! Americans—expecting us to endorse your efforts to criminalize law-abiding gun owners. We also know your personal definitions of “assault weapons” It is amazing broad—encompassing all semiautomatic weapons—which are the most common and There are more than 100,000,000 Americans who use self-defense weapons today. To defend their families and homes…

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s estimates, there are more than 100 million semiautomatic pistols in America. The vast majority of these guns are legally owned by law-abiding Americans who are exercising their God-given rights of self-defense. The semi-automatic handgun is the best choice for self-defense. A total of 45 million semiautomatic rifles are legally owned in America. Americans are likely to be alarmed when they hear you intend to go after the so-called “assault weapons,” We prepare for an attack on the ordinary, highly effective, and safe weapons used by over 100,000,000 Americans for their self-defense and home defense.

According to your own CDC, Americans use guns to protect themselves and their families up to 3 million times per year, if not more—far more often than guns are used in crimes, and far, far more often than guns injure people.

Biden’s repeated claim that the 1994 federal budget was too low has been disproved by the attorneys general. “assault weapon” The ban he supported during his time in the U.S. Senate decreased mass shootings. They note that “two different studies commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice—during the Clinton and Bush Administrations—found no discernible effect on violent crime from that legislation.”

“The right to keep and bear arms is one of the most fundamental and deeply rooted liberties in our constitutional tradition,” The Attorneys General remind President Biden. “It guards and protects the most basic of all rights, the right to life, and it stands as a constant bulwark against tyranny. We stand ready to oppose any attempt by your Administration to trample on this fundamental constitutional right,” The letter warns.