{"id":4037,"date":"2020-09-17T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4037"},"modified":"2020-09-17T11:29:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T18:29:50","slug":"joe-biden-on-gun-control-understanding-bidens-2020-platform-and-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=4037","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden on Gun Control: Understanding Biden’s 2020 Platform and the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Written by Sam Jacobs, Lead Writer and\u00a0Chief Historian of Ammo.com<\/em><\/p>\n

“You don’t need an AR-15. It’s harder to aim, it’s harder to use, and in fact, you don’t need 30 rounds to protect yourself.”<\/p>\n

-Joe Biden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The one-two punch of the Wuhan Coronavirus explosion, and the civil unrest of early 2020, led to an unprecedented growth in firearms ownership in America. All told, there were about two million firearms sold in the month of March 2020<\/a> alone. Between March and July, an additional three million were sold, with about half of those happening in the month of June<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ammunition sales have similarly spiked<\/a>, with record sales occurring on this website. However, gun owners don\u2019t need a report to know that there has been a massive surge in demand for ammunition. They need only go down to their local gun store and see that all of the most common rounds are in short supply, sold out or being rationed at the point of sale.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not just guns and ammo. There has also been a significant increase in the number of Americans obtaining their concealed carry weapons permit and packing on a daily basis. Forbes<\/em> magazine estimates that 20 million Americans<\/a> are now carrying as part of their everyday life.<\/p>\n

The flipside of this is that Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 campaign<\/a> has been perhaps the most radically anti-Second Amendment<\/a> campaign on record. Former Vice President Biden is very proud of his role in spiriting the 1994 gun ban<\/a> into passage. If he\u2019s elected, we will see an expansion of the power of the federal government and attacks on the rights of Americans that will not be restricted to the ownership of firearms. As president, Biden would resume the Obama-era attacks on the suburbs<\/a> ended by President Trump, give citizenship<\/a> (and voting rights) to nearly 30 million illegal aliens and use the Federal Reserve<\/a> to address a \u201cracial wealth gap<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, Biden\u2019s desire to erode the Second Amendment<\/a> deserves special attention. It is a radical agenda that will gut the right to bear arms<\/a> in this country. Does that sound like bluster and hyperbole? It\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden\u2019s Record: What He Says vs. What He\u2019s Done<\/h4>\n

There are two ways to determine how a potential President Joe Biden would govern with regard to the Second Amendment<\/a>: What he says and what he has done. As Joe Biden has been out of government since 2017, we will start with his history as a legislator and as Vice President of the United States.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden has a very long record of being anti-Second Amendment<\/a>. He voted for the 1986 Firearms Owners Protection Act<\/a>, which was primarily a series of gimmes to gun grabbers in exchange for getting the ATF to leave law-abiding gun owners alone. If you\u2019ve ever wanted to own an M-16, but can\u2019t afford one because of the high price of the related tax stamp, you can thank Joe Biden for that.<\/p>\n

Biden was also instrumental in the passage of the Brady Bill<\/a>. This law, until the creation of the NICS background check system<\/a>, provided for a five-day waiting period to purchase a firearm. He brags about his role in passing this bill into law on his campaign website<\/a>, saying \u201cIn 1994, Biden \u2013 along with Senator Dianne Feinstein \u2013 secured the passage of 10-year bans on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. As president, Joe Biden will defeat the NRA<\/a> again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Far more concerning, however, is that, as a Senator, Joe Biden literally wrote the bill<\/a> that banned so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d in the United States for 20 years. This assault weapons ban defined \u201cassault weapons\u201d in an extremely broad sense. Under the law, the definitions of an assault weapon were as follows:<\/p>\n

Rifles:<\/strong><\/p>\n