It is pretty obvious that Joe Biden’s administration is tanking to everyone, but the mainstream media.
Seriously, think about the last two years that we have witnessed.
There has been mass rioting, theft, sky-high inflation, gas prices soaring, food shortages, the border is being overrun, voter fraud like nothing we have ever seen in history and our liberties stripped away under the guise of “public safety”.
We’ve learned that everything science taught us about XX (female) and XY (male) chromosomes is wrong and that gender is anything imagination can hold. And we’re battling cultural Marxists for our children’s minds.
A leader with any moral character would try to help the nation heal.
A leader that was worth anything would try and unite the nation instead of continuing to divide us apart.
Seriously, Biden could have even called a truce and said to the American people we need to put our differences aside and work together now.
However, Biden continued to stoke the flames of division which is what progressives do.
So, what is his next plan?
To take aim at the second amendment…again.
Here’s his tweet taking full credit for it.
A year ago this week, I said we would rein in the proliferation of ghost guns. The gun lobby tried to tie up regulators in paperwork. But today, we kept our promise and made it illegal to manufacture ghost gun kits without a serial number or sell them without a background check. pic.twitter.com/i4MdSJVUfJ
— President Biden (@POTUS) April 12, 2022
It’s called the “Frame or Receiver and Identification of Firearms Final Rule” (2021R-05F), and according to the DOJ it’s intended to modernize the definition of firearm.
It does more than that.
You can find a copy of the Final Rule in the Federal Register. The DOJ has also prepared a Fact Sheet.
“Ghost Guns” are getting a lot of attention in this rule. These are guns that are privately made using components lacking commercial serial numbers. As a result, these guns are untraceable.
Without the Final Rule, the ATF had not have been able to regulate the components as “firearms”.
The media, ATF, and gun control advocates have pushed the rule under claims that these guns are being used in a spike of violent crime across the nation.
For example, New York City Mayor Adams has called ghost guns one of the greatest threats to public safety we face today. On the day the Final Rule was published–the day before the mass shooting in the NY subway, the New York Post quoted Mayor Adams saying:
We must face this issue head-on. This is one of the most important rivers that feeds the sea of violence in our city and our country.
Not everyone is convinced this rule will survive constitutional scrutiny or is a good idea.
The Constitution does not authorize the federal government to prevent you from making your own firearm. This a fact that has been recognized for 200+ years. Also, Article 1, Section 1 (literally the first operative sentence in the Constitution) says Congress makes law, not POTUS! pic.twitter.com/vTFRvKYTVi
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) April 11, 2022
I never thought about ghost guns until Biden showed us how easy it is to acquire/build them. Now I want one.
I'm not alone.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) April 12, 2022
The 2A was designed for exactly what we’re living today, it was designed and written to protect us The people from a tyrannical Government.
Our founders knew, we know, they know.
The ghost gun crap is a gun grab propaganda.— 🇺🇸Law&Order🇺🇸 (@Diaz9Law) April 12, 2022
This week Biden also nominated his second candidate, Steve Dettelbach, to head the ATF. His first nominee, David Chipman, a brash gun control advocate, was torpedoed by republicans last year.
Biden refers to Mr. Dettlebach as a former federal attorney.
What should we know?
Gun Owners of America has plenty to say about Mr. Dettlebach, none of it good for the 2A crowd:
In 2018, Dettlebach unsuccessfully ran for public office, promising a host of new gun control initiatives if elected, including:
- An Assault Weapons Ban
- Universal Background Registration Checks
- Gun confiscation for misdemeanor crimes
- Gun confiscation for those dealing with mental health issues
- “[C]losing” the made up “over the Internet” and fake “gun show loophole[s]”
- Disarming teachers and keeping schools as “soft targets”
In fact, Dettlebach used his position as a US Attorney to advocate for gun control for years, publishing op-eds such as Requiring universal background checks makes sense.
In fact, this US attorney heavily weighed in on the Manchin-Toomey gun control proposal in 2013, condemning “[t]he Senate’s failure… to pass the universal background check bill” as “disheartening.”
Key Question: Does Steve Dettelbach Support ATF’s Illegal Gun Registry?
In recent months, Gun Owners of America and Representative Michael Cloud uncovered that the ATF has been maintaining an illegal turn-key national gun registry with nearly a billion Firearm Transaction Records or Form 4473s in Martinsburg, West Virginia.
Indeed, federal law prohibits the centralization of ATF records, maintaining a registry of guns or gun owners, and keeping records which are searchable by name.
Interestingly, Steve Dettlebach acknowledged that this was illegal in a 2013 op-ed, stating:
“Some critics have argued that universal background checks will lead to a national gun registry. But establishing such a federal gun registry is and will remain illegal under the proposal. The existing background check system has been around for 14 years, and there’s no national registry of gun owners. Requiring a background check of gun buyers would not compromise the Second Amendment, which we respect” (emphasis added).
But as it turns out in 2005 and 2006, ATF illegally used congressional appropriations to begin converting out-of-business Firearm Transaction Records (Form 4473s) and Acquisition and Disposition Logs into a digital searchable database.
Dettlebach said that federal law prohibits the creation of a gun registry. What does he think should be done with the 920,664,765 records of guns, gun owners, and acquisition and disposition logs currently in ATF’s centralized database as of November 2021?
You might also find this video a helpful introduction to Mr. Dettlebach.
Gun control advocates seem to have a hard time understanding why law-abiding Americans are against gun registration.
It’s because we know what follows—gun confiscation.
Maybe we can distill this conflict down to its simplest form.
Some people believe in the right to self-defense.
Others do not.
Biden is one of them.