Biden Gun Control Plan Would "Criminalize" Up To 105 Million People: Gun-Rights Group

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Authored by Jack Cardillo via The Epoch Times,

A gun-rights organization said that President Joe Biden’s gun control proposal would potentially make about 105 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals.

“While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws, we firmly believe that the path forward should be focused on supporting and protecting responsible, law-abiding Americans - not criminalizing and punishing them,” the U.S. Concealed Carry Association said in a letter to Biden this week.
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The group - which, according to the group’s website, has about 556,000 members - said the president’s push for gun control on the anniversary of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting was needless.

“The U.S. Concealed Carry Association exists to help responsible Americans avoid danger, save lives, and keep their families safe, and we believe that our elected leaders in Washington have an incredible obligation to pursue these same goals,” the group added.
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The group noted that in 2020, a significant number of people purchased firearms in the midst of historic riots and the COVID-19 pandemic.


The FBI stated last month that it processed a record 39.7 million firearm background checks in 2020, which bested the previous high of 10 million. Reports said that as many as 8.5 million purchased their first firearm in 2020, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Meanwhile, a number of gun and ammunition manufacturers reported shortages amid the surge in demand.

Biden earlier this month said that he would push Congress to enact more gun control measures, including allowing gun manufacturers to face lawsuits, banning “assault weapons,” and placing bans on high-capacity magazines. His pick for Attorney General, Merrick Garland, told lawmakers on Monday that he would support the White House’s stance on gun control.


“This Administration will not wait for the next mass shooting to heed that call. We will take action to end our epidemic of gun violence and make our schools and communities safer. Today, I am calling on Congress to enact commonsense gun law reforms, including requiring background checks on all gun sales, banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, and eliminating immunity for gun manufacturers who knowingly put weapons of war on our streets,” Biden said earlier this month.
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Pro-Second Amendment groups have noted that the term “assault weapon” has a nebulous meaning, with some saying that it is a made-up term that was invented by the anti-gun lobby in the 1980s. “Assault rifle” is a term sometimes used by the military to define a rifle that has select-fire capabilities, or the ability to switch between semi-automatic or fully automatic. For example, the much-derided AR-15 doesn’t have select-fire capability and only operates as a semi-automatic rifle.

The U.S. Concealed Carry Association further added that “record numbers of Americans have been purchasing firearms to keep themselves and their loved ones safe,” adding that “women and minorities are now leading the way as the fastest-growing groups of concealed carry permit holders in the country.”

White House officials, furthermore, have said Biden would take on the largest gun-rights group, the National Rifle Association (NRA).

“But I will say that the president is somebody, throughout his career, who has advocated for smart gun, smart gun safety measures,” press secretary Jen Psaki said earlier this month. “He is not afraid of standing up to the NRA – he has done it multiple times.”
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The letter was first obtained by the Washington Examiner. The Epoch Times has reached out to the White House for comment.
 
Goofyfoot2001 said:
I don't like seeing the USCCA making conments that sound just like the NRA, "While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws..."

Nope we have all the laws we need
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I think they were being too cute. Read it again and see if when they say this they might mean that laws need to go away. Going away is a change.
 
So, they would turn 105 million right wing conservatives into legally recognized criminals, subject to arrest and persecution, I mean prosecution. Isn't that part of the plan anyway? Make your enemies, enemies of the state?
 
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It’s hard for me to believe that Biden supporters not only would also become criminals, but that only a select fraction of these supporters even agree with his plan.


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NC Rob said:
A gun-rights organization said that President Joe Biden’s gun control proposal would potentially make about 105 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals.
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That would be a feature, not a bug.
georgel said:
So, they would turn 105 million right wing conservatives into legally recognized criminals, subject to arrest and persecution, I mean prosecution. Isn't that part of the plan anyway? Make you enemies, enemies of the state?
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Perzactly. Whoever is writing this stuff for Sleepy Joe intends to find any way they can to criminalize the left's political opposition. Dollars to donuts he hasn't even read it. But from a wannabe totalitarian's point of view, what could be better than turning your opposition into felons with the stroke of a pen?
 
georgel said:
So, they would turn 105 million right wing conservatives into legally recognized criminals, subject to arrest and persecution, I mean prosecution. Isn't that part of the plan anyway? Make you enemies, enemies of the state?
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Yep, sounds about right. You're not voting for them so you're the enemy, any treatment is justified.

And those pro-biden gun owners? Meh, collateral damage. They can import more votes from outside the US in time to replace them before the next 'election'.
 
Goofyfoot2001 said:
I don't like seeing the USCCA making conments that sound just like the NRA, "While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws..."

Nope we have all the laws we need
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Wonder what those needed changes would be? Could be as innocent as REMOVING restrictions?
 
To me it seems like this is nothing new just a repackaging of the same info that we all already knew. They put a new headline on it with a new claim of criminalization but just like Biden's plan it seems to be short on the details. The devil is always in the details. At this point everything that Biden has said on the issue of gun control has been lip service. None of it is concrete. It does not amount to a plan it is nothing but the same meaningless talking points we have been hearing for years. What makes this different? Did I miss something?
 
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NC Rob said:

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Authored by Jack Cardillo via The Epoch Times,

A gun-rights organization said that President Joe Biden’s gun control proposal would potentially make about 105 million law-abiding gun owners into criminals.



The group - which, according to the group’s website, has about 556,000 members - said the president’s push for gun control on the anniversary of the Parkland, Florida mass shooting was needless.



The group noted that in 2020, a significant number of people purchased firearms in the midst of historic riots and the COVID-19 pandemic.


The FBI stated last month that it processed a record 39.7 million firearm background checks in 2020, which bested the previous high of 10 million. Reports said that as many as 8.5 million purchased their first firearm in 2020, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Meanwhile, a number of gun and ammunition manufacturers reported shortages amid the surge in demand.

Biden earlier this month said that he would push Congress to enact more gun control measures, including allowing gun manufacturers to face lawsuits, banning “assault weapons,” and placing bans on high-capacity magazines. His pick for Attorney General, Merrick Garland, told lawmakers on Monday that he would support the White House’s stance on gun control.




Pro-Second Amendment groups have noted that the term “assault weapon” has a nebulous meaning, with some saying that it is a made-up term that was invented by the anti-gun lobby in the 1980s. “Assault rifle” is a term sometimes used by the military to define a rifle that has select-fire capabilities, or the ability to switch between semi-automatic or fully automatic. For example, the much-derided AR-15 doesn’t have select-fire capability and only operates as a semi-automatic rifle.

The U.S. Concealed Carry Association further added that “record numbers of Americans have been purchasing firearms to keep themselves and their loved ones safe,” adding that “women and minorities are now leading the way as the fastest-growing groups of concealed carry permit holders in the country.”

White House officials, furthermore, have said Biden would take on the largest gun-rights group, the National Rifle Association (NRA).



The letter was first obtained by the Washington Examiner. The Epoch Times has reached out to the White House for comment.
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" From my Cold Dead Hands "
 
It would require an unbelievable level of inability to act for us if just as few assholes from the government could make a third of the population criminal. At that level, I would call such inaction - criminal negligence and this would not be THEY made as a criminal. WE do it ourselves.
 
Jayne said:
And those pro-biden gun owners? Meh, collateral damage. They can import more votes from outside the US in time to replace them before the next 'election'.
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By now we should all be familiar with the concept of "selective enforcement". At first it's a tool to go after their political enemies. Then it becomes a way to keep the rest in line.
 
This sucks, unless they mean doing away with restrictive laws already on the books.

“While we can agree that there are several ‘common sense’ and long overdue changes needed to our nation’s gun laws”
 
I can’t agree with anything most any politician says about the RTKBA, based upon the fact it is a constitutionally enumerated right for all free citizens, free from restriction, regulation or prohibition.

When a politician stands firm on that, then I’ll start listening. Otherwise, they’re just paying it lip service.
 
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There are already 20,000-plus gun laws on the books.

If the best the Left can come up with is "we need common sense gun laws", it seems to me like they're saying the 20,000-plus gun laws already on the books need to go because they're not common sense gun laws.

At that point, they can stop.
 
All about power, control and having a monopoly on violence.

Don’t know how to break it to ‘em, but their dreams of absolute power are just that...dreams.

FAFO.
 
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