{"id":1498176,"date":"2022-05-31T12:45:51","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498176"},"modified":"2022-05-31T12:45:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T16:45:54","slug":"were-banning-handguns-now-biden-suggests-outlawing-most-popular-self-defense-caliber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-banning-handguns-now-biden-suggests-outlawing-most-popular-self-defense-caliber\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re Banning Handguns Now?\u2019: Biden Suggests Outlawing \u2018Most Popular\u2019 Self-Defense Caliber"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-banning-handguns-now-biden-suggests-outlawing-most-popular-self-defense-caliber%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1498176&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden said Monday that &#8220;there&#8217;s simply no rational basis&#8221; for permitting ownership of 9 mm bullets, which are typically used in handguns.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said when he was a senator, a trauma doctor told him &#8220;a 9 mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is of\u2014there&#8217;s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,&#8221; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users were baffled by Biden&#8217;s claims, saying that 9 mm bullets are often used in handguns intended for self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2018A 9MM bullet blows the lung out of the body&#8217; has to be one of the dumbest things I&#8217;ve ever heard,&#8221; Republican congressional candidate Robby Starbuck <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robbystarbuck\/status\/1531335894220820485\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>. &#8220;Why do the people who know the least about guns want to yap their gums the most about guns?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had wondered if Biden was mistaking 9mm for AR rounds,&#8221; Republican strategist Matt Whitlock <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1531302020111646721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;but he was intentionally targeting 9mm, the most popular home defense caliber in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>RealClearInvestigations<\/em> senior writer Mark Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Heminator\/status\/1531278377008627713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>, &#8220;We&#8217;re banning handguns now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nine-millimeter pistols made up a majority, 56.8 percent, of all pistols produced in 2019, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/biden-9mm-bullets-second-amendment-banning-handguns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The president on Monday also repeated his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2021\/06\/28\/bidens-false-claim-that-2nd-amendment-bans-cannon-ownership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-debunked<\/a>\u00a0claim that a citizen &#8220;couldn&#8217;t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden said Monday that &#8220;there&#8217;s simply no rational basis&#8221; for permitting ownership of 9 mm bullets, which are typically used in handguns. 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