NBC Reporter Asks Secret Service If ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ AR-15 Part Is Threatening

In the last 24 hours a former Clinton administration press secretary has equated people who say “Let’s Go, Brandon” with ISIS members, ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather has warned the phrase may lead to “violence,” and an NBC reporter has contacted the Secret Service to determine if novelty AR-15 parts bearing the anti-Biden phrase should be considered a threat to the president’s safety.

On Monday, MSNBC’s Joe Fryer boasted of “exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden.” Palmetto State Armory, a South Carolina-based firearms supplier, offers customers the lower part of an AR-15 engraved with the words “Let’s Go, Brandon” beneath a carving of what appears to be President Joe Biden with his arms outstretched above the checkered racing flag of NASCAR. Two other outlets have stocked AR-15 magazines with the phrase, one with a picture of a mask-clad President Biden raising his index finger, the other bearing an addled-looking caricature of the president.

“Gun dealers are marketing weapon parts and ammunition using a right-wing slogan widely understood as code for profanity directed at President Joe Biden,” reported NBC News reporter Ken Dilanian, whom Fryer introduced.

“A spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, which investigates threats against the president, declined to comment,” Dilanian added. He concluded his report by saying, “The fact that a code phrase for profaning the U.S. president is being used to market guns and ammunition suggests that the rage on display on January 6 has not subsided.”

On Twitter, he continued equating the chanting of “Let’s Go, Brandon” with dangerous threats on Twitter. “I called the Secret Service about this. They had no comment,” Dilanian tweeted. When Twitter users mocked Dilanian for calling the Secret Service over a meme, Dilanian dug in his heels. “I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider ‘F—Joe Biden’ emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president. Which I think is a reasonable question,” Delanian replied.

I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider “F—Joe Biden”emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president. Which I think is a reasonable question. https://t.co/HfqZfrE7rE

— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) November 1, 2021

The firearms industry has little love for Biden who, as a senator, drafted a ban on so-called “assault weapons,”specifically including the AR-15. The 1994 “crime bill” also banned the manufacture of new, “high-capacity” magazines, which