Joe Biden. The guy hasn’t met a piece of gun control legislation (or executive order) that he hasn’t wanted to implement.
It’s terrible, and the American people will be better off without him (or whoever is running things in the White House while he is the official “puppet”) in the White House.
Still, like all those who desperately want to be tyrants, who want to live luxuriously without a care in the world at the expense of the people that they are supposedly working for (their constituency), Biden has been working hard to leave some ugly “presents” when he leaves office for the incoming Trump administration and for the American people who overwhelmingly decided that they didn’t want four more years of Biden or Harris in the White House.
And the one that we’re talking about today is Biden’s attempt to go after legal gun owners even after he’s gone. Michael Clements writes,
The final volume of a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) study on firearms trafficking, released on Jan. 8, calls for expansion of the background check and gun tracing programs as well as investigations along the U.S. southern border.
Volume IV of the National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment (NFCTA) is the final volume in a study ordered by Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021.
“This final volume … concludes the most comprehensive look at America’s crime gun data in over two decades and confirms that ATF’s [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] advanced intelligence tools are vital to helping law enforcement nationwide solve gun crimes and take shooters off the streets,” Garland said in a statement announcing the report.
Now, it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Garland is who is pushing this for the Biden administration. After all, he hasn’t found a left-leaning political cause that he hasn’t been willing to use lawfare to push. (I can’t tell you how happy I am that he was denied being put on the Supreme Court.)
Of course Garland (and Biden) want the Federal government to put a tighter stranglehold on private gun ownership. All leftists do.
But the ATF and the DOJ being involved in private gun ownership has been nothing more than an excuse to try to circumvent the Second Amendment. They’re both wrong for even trying.
Thankfully, we still have a Second Amendment and a First Amendment that allows us to tell Garland and Biden that they can keep their awful recommendations. We’re not interested.