President Joe Biden, with just 16 weeks left in his presidency, sat at a desk beneath Vice President Kamala Harris and announced on Thursday a massive new executive order curtailing the Second Amendment rights of Americans. It had been coming for a long time. Biden has taken more than 20 executive actions in his presidency to reduce gun ownership in the country.
In spite of Biden’s anti-gun actions since taking office, willful deaths by firearms and mass shootings have spiked under his administration, which has had soft-on-crime policies.
The joint announcement from the president and now-presidential candidate Harris builds on “red flag” gun confiscation, with universal background checks, new definitions for machine guns manufacturing, laws against 3-D printing of parts, and uniformly designed mass-shooter drills for schools.
The Biden-Harris order calls on federal agencies to develop and publish information for schools and colleges to use in creating active shooter drills. This must be done within 110 days, the order says — one week before Biden leaves office on Jan. 20.
Some 95% of public schools in America already perform mass shooting drills, and some evidence shows them to be ineffective and also traumatic for children. Schools no longer are allowed to have prayer on campus, and many schools now skip the Pledge of Allegiance, but they do have children huddle together in a safe room as they pretend a madman is outside the door ready to shoot them.
The Biden-Harris Administration will also soon start using money as a direct lever with states, to coerce them into enacting more gun control laws on their own.
That will help Harris, if elected president, bypass a Republican Congress’ unwillingness to violate the Constitution. Harris is in charge of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention that Biden set up in the White House, where Thursday’s executive order originated.
Read the entire executive order at this link.
Harris said Thursday the right to live free from gun violence is a civil right and she supports an “assault weapons” ban.
Not everyone supports the president and vice president in this executive order.
“The White House just made a huge mistake by reminding gun owners of Kamala’s radical, gun-grabbing agenda, with the election a mere month or so away. Kamala Harris just claimed responsibility for each infringement—every banned gun and part—by ATF in the last four years, so we are pushing back and calling her out,” said Erich Pratt, Gun Owners of America’s senior vice president.
Nick Begich, running for Congress for Alaska, issued a statement about the executive order: “The Second Amendment is clear: The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Kamala Harris and her allies in Congress continue to work overtime to find ways to infringe on the Constitutionally protected rights of law-abiding Americans. In a race where freedom is center-stage, national Democrats have chosen their side, and it’s not with the people.”
The executive order is especially threatening to rural Alaskans who have an existential need for firearms.
“All Alaskans, particularly those in our rural communities, rely on access to firearms to support our way of life. This Biden order is yet one more way Mary Peltola’s team of Democrats is making it harder to live as Alaskans,” Begich said.
Rep. Mary Peltola on Thursday issued a statement about the Capitol Christmas tree ornament deadline coming up on Monday and ignored the controversy of the executive order made by the heads of her political party.
After signing the executive order, Biden handed Harris the pen and said, “Keep it going, boss,” an indication that this was only a start for Harris’ strict gun control agenda, which is one of her major campaign promises.
Peltola supported Biden for president but has remained silent on Harris.
Biden-Harris’ gun-control executive order has turned the commercial firearm background check at the point of sale into a confiscation procedure involving at least three stages of unconstitutional mandates:
An 18–20-year-old who is purchasing a gun must go through a waiting period. During that period, the government will do an “enhanced background check,” and can use that to “red flag” the purchaser. The purchaser’s name is then added to a database of persons prohibited from buying guns. Finally, after the person is labeled by the government as someone who cannot buy a firearm, and thus any firearms in his or her possession will be confiscated.
“Shockingly, Kamala Harris is weaponizing the ‘enhanced background check’ for young adults into a tool for gun confiscation. If an existing gun owner goes to purchase a new firearm legally, the government may ‘red flag’ them instead and seize their currently owned firearms in the process. The chilling effect this could have on new gun purchases is unimaginable,” said Aidan Johnston, Gun Owner of America’s director of legal affairs.
Schools like those in Uvalde, Texas regularly practiced active-shooter drills but a gunman still had easy access and the ability to kill 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school while law enforcement mulled around outside the school for 77 minutes.
Yet the one group that has been identified as “potential school shooters” is the cohort of gender-confused students in the very school in which the shooting takes place. Many recent school shootings have been done by transgenders. There is no mention in the order about mental health support for this group of students.
As for the executive order’s references to machine guns and machine-gun conversions, they have been outlawed for civilians for decades. And regarding the order banning 3-D printed plastic parts for cheap, Glock-type guns, machined steel parts are still required to lock the gun mechanism prior to firing and for the chamber to hold and direct the pressure toward accelerating the bullet.
The Biden-Harris executive order will come up against some states like Alaska, Montana and others that have laws that allow its citizens to manufacture firearms. There is no requirement that firearms manufactured under those laws have a serial number nor is there a requirement that any identification mark on a gun so manufactured be recorded.
The order does not address the current trend of mass shootings being done by primarily two classes of people: Psychos and urban gang-bangers. The only reasonable defense regular Americans have against either of these groups is to carry a gun.
Most murders, with and without guns, are perpetrated in cities that are run by Democrats and many of those cities, such as Seattle, already have unconstitutional gun control laws on the books.
The call for safe storage is legitimate, but putting those requirements into law violates the Constitution. Rep. Mary Peltola supports safe storage laws, but would need as many as 10 of the largest safes available for the 176 long guns supposedly in her house.
Red Flag laws, which this executive order also addresses, are routinely used by divorce attorneys in negotiating for their clients. Husbands are often the target of threats by divorcing wives to report them as domestic violence abusers, which would lead to having their guns taken from them. This can lead to unfair divorce settlements, as men can surmise the law is not going to favor them if such an accusation is made.
Gun grabbing is the go-to authoritarian tool of a communist.
A vote for these Democrats equates to shooting yourself in the foot.