{"id":607375,"date":"2021-07-31T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607375"},"modified":"2021-07-31T10:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-31T14:06:19","slug":"biden-reveals-his-true-goal-to-ban-most-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-reveals-his-true-goal-to-ban-most-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Reveals His True Goal: To Ban Most Guns"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbiden-reveals-his-true-goal-to-ban-most-guns%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=607375&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/8978E76E-A17E-4D4C-9B3F-D80A64BEAEC3-scaled-1.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he again clarified his position last week. \u201cThe idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon \u2014 whether it\u2019s a \u2014 whether it\u2019s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it\u2019s a rifle \u2014 is ridiculous,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2021\/07\/biden-says-he-wants-to-ban-semi-automatic-guns-including-handguns\/\">said<\/a> at a televised CNN townhall meeting. \u201cI\u2019m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things, but I\u2019m not likely to get that done in the near term.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s gun control proposals will make guns so expensive and difficult to obtain that only the extremely wealthy will be able to afford to own one legally. While the news media assures Americans that Biden just wants \u201creasonable\u201d regulations, Biden made the scope of his true ambitions clear during the campaign. At a high-dollar private fundraiser in Seattle in 2019 he said: \u201cWhy should we allow people to have military-style weapons, including pistols with 9-mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?<\/p>\n<p>When Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HouseGOP\/status\/1418020563679842304?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1418020563679842304%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politifact.com%2Ffactchecks%2F2021%2Fjul%2F22%2Fnational-house-republicans%2Fno-joe-biden-doesnt-want-ban-handguns%2F\">pointed out<\/a> that this goal was tantamount to banning most modern handguns, liberal PolitiFact quickly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jul\/22\/national-house-republicans\/no-joe-biden-doesnt-want-ban-handguns\/\">came to Biden\u2019s defense<\/a>. The fact-checking site did so again last week. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politifact.com\/factchecks\/2021\/jul\/22\/national-house-republicans\/no-joe-biden-doesnt-want-ban-handguns\/\">The most popular handguns would face no restrictions under Biden\u2019s policies<\/a>,\u201d wrote PolitiFact senior correspondent Jon Greenberg. The basis of this conclusion, Greenberg wrote, is that the popular Sig Sauer P365 cannot accommodate more than 10 or 15 rounds. This is untrue. Although that is how the pistol comes from the manufacturer, this gun and virtually all semiautomatics can use bullet magazines that extend well below the pistol grip. The model Greenberg referenced can actually use magazines that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymymags.com\/sig-sauer-p365-9mm-20-round-extended-magazine\/\">hold 20<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drummagazines.com\/30-round-drum-for-Sig-Sauer-P365-9mm_p_884.html\">30<\/a>, or even&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buymymags.com\/sig-sauer-p365-9mm-50-round-drum\/\">50 rounds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably, PolitiFact believes that Biden\u2019s proposed ban would only apply to guns based on their \u201cstandard magazine\u201d size. But Biden himself wasn\u2019t ambiguous. He talked about banning pistols based on their \u201cability to fire\u201d or that \u201ccan hold\u201d so many rounds. When he mentions \u201cmilitary-style weapons including pistols,\u201d the president is talking about the gun themselves. He also wants to ban so-called \u201cassault rifles\u201d regardless of how many rounds their standard magazines hold, and he lumps those guns together with pistols. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2021\/07\/biden-says-he-wants-to-ban-semi-automatic-guns-including-handguns\/\">85% of handguns in the U.S. are semiautomatics<\/a> and would be banned if Biden has his way.<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s top elected Democrats do not usually openly talk about banning handguns, but their proposals aim to accomplish just that. Biden has also proposed making gun manufacturers civilly liable for any misuse of firearms that they sell. That means people could sue manufacturers and sellers whenever a crime, accident, or suicide occurs with a gun \u2013 and would effectively put them out of business.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, in such \u201cproduct liability\u201d litigation, a manufacturer must produce a defective product or violate the law in some way. But to run afoul of this proposed statute, gun makers need not do anything wrong at all.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine what would happen to the car industry if similar rules applied. The National Safety Council estimates that car accidents in 2018 caused 39,404 deaths and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2020\/10\/products-that-are-more-dangerous-than-guns\/\">4.5 million<\/a>&nbsp;injuries in the United States. Most of these occur because a driver isn\u2019t paying attention or drives recklessly, perhaps under the influence of drugs or alcohol, neglected to maintain the vehicle \u2013 or because of some other combination of factors. Rarely is the car or truck itself at fault. It would be ludicrous to make automakers pay lost wages, medical costs, and pain and suffering because of a driver\u2019s negligence. Gun manufacturers likewise shouldn\u2019t have to pay for the misconduct of America\u2019s citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 unwillingness to fix the gun background check system also reflects their desire to make life difficult for gun owners. Errors in the system stop about 3.8 million law-abiding Americans from purchasing firearms. Mistakes arise because most checks look at &nbsp;phonetically similar names and similar birthdates and account for about 99% of the denials. When I recently worked in the U.S. Department of Justice, I saw data showing that the system overwhelmingly discriminates against black and Hispanic males. All the government must do is hold itself to the same standards for background checks that private companies have to meet.<\/p>\n<p>Or take Biden\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy towards what he calls \u201crogue\u201d gun dealers. No policymaker wants dealers to secretly sell guns to criminals out of the back of their store. But that is not what Biden is going after. Even one mistake in paperwork, no matter how trivial and inconsequential, now means the loss of their license and the end of their business. When Biden talks about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/speeches-remarks\/2021\/06\/23\/remarks-by-president-biden-and-attorney-general-garland-on-gun-crime-prevention-strategy\/\">5% of the gun dealers selling 90% of the guns found at crime scenes<\/a>, he ignores that 5% sell over 90% of the guns. He ignores that <a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2021\/07\/fewer-than-0-1-of-guns-are-used-in-crime-in-any-given-year\/\">less than 0.1% of guns<\/a> are used in a crime in any given year, and that guns are used to stop crime about five times more frequently than they are used to commit it.<\/p>\n<p>Semiautomatic guns account for the vast majority of gun sales, and provide critical self-defensive benefits for individuals. If manually loaded, single-shot guns are the alternative, law-abiding victims are going to be in trouble if they have to fire more than one round in self-defense against a criminal with an illegally obtained semiautomatic.<\/p>\n<p>Magazines, which are a box with a spring, are easy to make and virtually impossible to stop criminals from obtaining. Let\u2019s not put law-abiding citizens at such a disadvantage by giving them only one shot while criminals may have dozens.<\/p>\n<p><i>The views expressed in this piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>John Lott is the president of the Crime Prevention Research Center and the author most recently of \u201cGun Control Myths.\u201d Until last month, Lott was the senior adviser for research and statistics at the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Legal Policy.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he again clarified his position last week. \u201cThe idea you &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}