Anti-Gun Hysteria as Biden’s Gun Control Office Shuts Down

BREAKING: We’re solely two days into the Trump-Vance Administration, and so they have seemingly disbanded the first-ever White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention already—making it clear this Administration works for the gun foyer, not the American individuals. pic.twitter.com/TH4RmOUF7T

— Everytown (@Everytown) January 21, 2025

The gun prohibition foyer goes nuts over the truth that President Donald Trump adopted via on a promise to do away with Joe Biden’s White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention, a mini-bureaucracy whose true purpose for existence seems to have been to push the previous president’s extremist gun management agenda.

The workplace’s White Home web site has been eliminated, the small workers reportedly give up days earlier than Trump was sworn in—most likely to keep away from being given the boot—and main gun ban teams together with Everytown for Gun Security and Brady United are actually in panic mode.

In a message posted on “X,” Everytown is lamenting, “We’re solely two days into the Trump-Vance Administration, and so they have seemingly disbanded the first-ever White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention already—making it clear this Administration works for the gun foyer, not the American individuals.

The Hint, a pro-gun management publication, complained, “as of midday on January 20, the workplace successfully, if not formally, ceased to exist.”

The consensus amongst Second Modification activists seems to be a powerful “Oh, Boo Hoo!”

For instance, Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Residents Committee for the Proper to Hold and Bear Arms, noticed, “This gun management paperwork had no place within the White Home, and it ought to by no means have been created. Its supporters are having matches on the Web, which convinces us that President Trump’s swift motion was right.”

In a press release to the media, Gottlieb described the White Home operation as “a shadow authorities workplace (established) as a result of Congress rejected his extremist agenda of gun bans, gun registration and different Second Modification infringements.”

“Happily,” Gottlieb noticed, “this gun management workplace and the Biden administration bureaucrats on the Justice Division and ATF who had been cooperating with the plan at the moment are gone.”

The gun prohibition foyer is laboring to extoll the virtues of the now-defunct operation, arguing that the workplace “Helped drive a 13.5% discount in nationwide homicides in 2023 – the steepest decline in American historical past.” The supply of this statistic was not obtainable.

However a have a look at the historical past of Biden’s gun management workplace reveals the operation was not introduced till September, making it extremely uncertain it had a lot affect on the crime fee.

One other declare, which can be extra credible, whereas elevating alarms about what kind of powers this gun management workplace had, is that it “Created America’s first federal Gun Violence Emergency Response Staff, bringing collectively the FBI, FEMA, and a number of federal businesses to reply to mass shootings.”

This raises the query of the place this workplace received the authority to try this.

In its information launch, Brady United declared, “The White Home Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention wasn’t about politics – it was about strengthening the federal government’s capability to guard Individuals (greater than 300 of whom are shot each single day) from weapons.”

Gun rights advocates would name that patently false. The White Home workplace was all about politics, and Brady’s cautious wordsmithing as soon as once more suggests weapons are accountable for individuals being shot, when in actuality, the blame rests solely on the people misusing these weapons.

The gun management workplace additionally “helped to implement the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, deliver collectively federal businesses to launch new efforts geared toward saving lives, and, up till Joe Biden’s last days within the White Home, helped enhance information assortment and dissemination that can information prevention efforts in faculties and neighborhoods throughout the nation for years to return,” in line with The Hint.

Newsweek joined within the media wailing, stating, “Now, with the web site taken down, it seems as if President Trump is following via on his promise to the Nationwide Rifle Affiliation (NRA) to terminate Biden’s gun legal guidelines, regardless of gun violence charges falling quickly through the earlier president’s administration.”

The Newsweek article went additional, arguing, “Trump has not introduced any plans to enhance gun security in the US. If his agenda on gun violence is aligned with the proposals set out in Undertaking 2025, then the nation will as a substitute see a mass loosening of gun restrictions.”

Restrictive gun management legal guidelines, say Second Modification activists, have by no means decreased violent crime, just because criminals don’t obey such legal guidelines.

Apparently, Newsweek has a web-based survey asking whether or not the article was honest, or whether or not it unfairly leaned left or proper. The most well-liked ranking, at this writing, was “Left-Leaning/Unfair.”

Whereas the Trump group seems to be dismantling Biden’s in-house gun management operation, 3,000 miles to the west—within the different Washington—state lawmakers held hearings on gun management laws, which acquired sturdy opposition from gun house owners, whereas gun prohibitionists turned out in help.

Home Invoice 1132 would place limits on gun and ammunition purchases for law-abiding residents: One gun per 30 days and 1,000 rounds of ammunition no matter caliber or gauge. Moreover, it will restrict the acquisition of .50 BMG ammunition to 100 rounds per 30 days. HB 1132 is sponsored by Rep. Darya Farivar (D-Seattle), and amongst these testifying was aggressive shooter Allen Ernst, who stated the measure violates his rights beneath the state and federal constitutions.

Quoted by the Seattle Occasions, Farivar asserted, “The very fact of the matter is that extraordinary persons are not shopping for 12 weapons or 12,000 rounds of ammunition a 12 months.”

Ernst countered, “Limiting my capability to buy ammunition in any quantity infringes upon my federal stage constitutional rights and impairs the rights clearly afforded to me in Washington state’s Structure.”

Home Invoice 1163 creates a “permit-to-purchase” system which might require getting a allow from the police to purchase a gun. To be able to get the allow, an individual must full a security course, together with a live-fire demonstration, and undergo a background examine. This invoice is sponsored by one other Seattle Democrat, Rep. Liz Berry.

Opponents advised the committee that no constitutional proper ought to first require a police allow to ensure that it to be exercised. Proponents argued that licenses are required for different endeavors, from driving a automobile to catching fish. Driving and fishing are each privileges whereas protecting and bearing arms are protected rights.