When you truly knew Joe Biden earlier than he took the nation’s highest workplace, you’d know he was probably the most antigun American ever to function President of the USA.
I first met Biden whereas I used to be working as an investigative reporter for a Delaware newspaper, a number of years earlier than he grew to become our Commander-in-Chief. I wasn’t impressed. Even throughout our temporary conferences, I acknowledged he had some severe points. Biden had issues merely making dialog.
Again then, my newspaper didn’t cowl Biden a lot, apart from by operating press releases from his workplace, which have been written by his loyal staffers. Any in-depth protection was nonexistent. None of my investigations targeted on Biden or his household.
Fortunately, issues modified years later. I began writing for the Second Modification Basis about three months after Biden grew to become president. Our founder and govt vp, Alan M. Gottlieb, welcomed any story that defined Biden’s antigun antics, so long as it was correct and truthful.
Recognizing Biden’s Psychological Well being Decline
One of many first tales was titled “It’s time to speak in regards to the President’s psychological well being.”
The story outed Biden’s crippling psychological well being points. It was revealed in June 2021, years earlier than the mainstream media—which is barely now beginning to focus on the president’s psychological well being challenges and a number of foibles—had a clue.
“The President had bother merely studying from the teleprompter. He slurred his phrases, which is extraordinarily alarming. Each single time he tried to talk extemporaneously with out the prompter, he couldn’t full a single sentence—not a one,” we wrote in 2021.
The column contained points that wanted to be made public.
“My concern is for the nation, not any explicit president. If I’m flawed about all of this, if Joe undergoes cognitive testing as he has promised and aces the assessments, nobody shall be happier than me. Nevertheless, if I’m proper, the nation is headed into uncharted waters with a shell of a person on the helm.”
Across the similar time, we launched readers to Biden’s distinctive approach of coping with the nation’s then-60,000 Federal Firearm Licensees, or FFLs—higher often known as gun sellers. He ordered ATF to place them out of enterprise—as many as doable for probably the most minor causes.
“When you’re scratching your head in confusion questioning why the Biden/Harris administration would goal FFLs—arguably one of the crucial closely regulated federal license holders—you’re actually not alone. Everybody within the firearms business is aware of full properly there are—possibly—a dozen or so “rogue gun sellers” out of roughly 60,000 FFLs in your complete nation,” we wrote.
Months later, we confirmed the harm this produced, once we identified how Biden ignored the actual reason for violent crime.
“What Biden not noted of his speech can also be telling. He by no means as soon as talked about gangs or gangsters—the foundation reason for violent crime in each main metropolis whose mayor Biden now desires to prop up. In Chicago alone there are greater than 100,000 gang members. I’m positive every owns various stolen firearms, so weapons aren’t the issue. Gangsters are—as evidenced by the actual fact there have been 54 folks shot within the metropolis final weekend.”
Selling Faux Knowledge
In July 2021, we instructed readers about the Gun Violence Archive, a unfastened affiliation of anti-gunners whose faux mass-shooting information was regularly cited by Biden and different White Home workers. For instance, the Gun Violence Archive claimed there have been 382 mass shootings in 2016, however the FBI stated there 20.
One story, “Particular Report: The Gun Violence Archive and its scaring of America,” confirmed how the Biden-Harris Administration cited this made-up information, which they continued to do for years.
In August 2021, we launched Susan Rice to readers, as Biden’s secret puppet-master in his conflict on weapons.
“The President of the USA has grow to be a puppet, who must be led—typically by the hand—to ready information cameras, the place he stumbles by way of speeches that another person has clearly written. So, who’s pulling Biden’s strings?” we requested within the story. “In my humble opinion, within the Biden-Harris Administration’s conflict in opposition to our weapons, former Obama nationwide safety advisor and UN Ambassador, Susan Rice, who now serves as Biden’s home coverage advisor, is clearly calling the photographs. Rice has a staunch anti-gun pedigree, coupled with direct entry to Biden—and Obama—and the means, skill and want to orchestrate the conflict in opposition to our God-given, constitutional rights.”
Rice’s anti-gun historical past is properly documented. She as soon as signed a letter calling “gun violence” a nationwide safety menace. The letter referred to as on officers to “ban assault weapons, mandate background checks and ready durations, and lift the minimal age to buy weapons.”
In September 2021, we fact-checked USA At the moment’s factchecker, Daniel Funks, for going tender on Biden, who truly checked his wristwatch as casualties have been deplaned on the Dover, Delaware, Air Power Base.
“Biden did seem to examine his watch throughout his go to to Dover Air Power Base. However he did so after the dignified switch ceremony was over. Footage main up to date exhibits Biden along with his hand over his coronary heart for about 30 seconds as vans carry the service members’ stays off the tarmac. After the vans had left, Biden closes his eyes briefly earlier than dropping his arms and glancing down at his watch,” Funke wrote.
“The households of the 13 slain service members, conservative writers and 1000’s of parents who watched the video with their very own eyes exploded in anger over Funke’s bogus, politically motivated claims,” we wrote.
The Assault on America’s Lawful Gun Sellers
In March 2022, we confirmed how Biden had shortly and quietly “unleashed hell on American gun sellers.”
“Because the NRA first famous, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has began revoking licenses of gun sellers for probably the most minor of paperwork errors—errors that by no means led to license revocations till Biden took workplace,” we wrote. “The transfer was meant to bolster Biden’s politically motivated stratagem, which he first introduced June 23, 2021, that ‘rogue’ gun sellers are liable for skyrocketing crime charges in massive cities that traditionally have been managed by Democrats. The ‘epidemic of gun violence’ wasn’t attributable to weak prosecutors who refuse to carry criminals accountable, or gangs or underfunded police departments or by any mixture thereof, Biden claimed. It was all of the fault of ‘rogue gun sellers.’”
Simply two months later, ATF’s revocations of FFLs had elevated by 500 p.c.
In April 2022, we documented how Biden created the most important and most closely armed terrorist military the world has ever seen.
“Among the many $80 billion value of high-tech weaponry Joe Biden gifted to the Taliban after his inept and lethal Afghanistan withdraw have been 176 artillery items, 64,363 belt-fed machine weapons, 126,295 handguns and naturally 358,530 select-fire assault weapons — actual assault weapons. A lot of the assault rifles have been outfitted with high-end optics. Many had IR lasers, which aren’t a lot good with out night-vision gear. Nevertheless, Biden left behind 16,035 units of NVGs. The small arms have been accompanied by 23,132 armored autos, each tracked and wheeled, 8,000 cargo vans, 42,000 pickups and SUVs, 109 helos and 65 fixed-wing plane, together with 4 C-130s,” we wrote.
In October 2022, we documented a part of the ATF’s conflict in opposition to a gun vendor, Ira Levin who has owned and operated Legend Firearms in Monroe, New Jersey since 2009. His crimes? A couple of clients wrote “USA” on the 4473 as a result of they mistakenly thought the shape requested for his or her nation reasonably than their county. Levin’s workers didn’t catch the errors.
“Levin believed ATF would concern a warning or impose a small advantageous for the paperwork errors, till he acquired a letter stating that the ATF meant to revoke his license. The revocation letter was signed by John Curtis, an business operations director at ATF’s New York Metropolis Area Workplace,” we wrote.
Not like a whole bunch of different gun sellers, Levin would win the case months later.
In April 2023, we continued masking Biden’s lack of correct mind functioning, comparable to his use of cheat sheets full with pictures.
“At a joint press convention with the President of South Korea, A New York Publish photographer with an extended lens captured a photograph of a cheat sheet in Biden’s palms. It wasn’t a typical Biden cheat sheet, which usually inform him what to say when he walks right into a room, whom to say, the place to take a seat and which reporters to name on. This cheat sheet had the title and film of Los Angeles Occasions reporter Courtney Subramanian. It additionally had the query she deliberate to ask, which raises much more questions on Biden’s health for workplace. He referred to as on Subramanian first however didn’t even attempt to pronounce her final title,” we wrote.
One month later, in Could 2023, we caught Biden utilizing faux mass-shooting date from the Gun Violence Archive, in a column he had allegedly written himself.
“Most of Joe’s opus we’ve heard many occasions earlier than. AR-15s are dangerous, so is anybody who owns one. Purple flag legal guidelines and common background checks will save the world. Congress must do extra by banning ‘assault weapons’ and standard-capacity magazines, and naturally his ubiquitous: ‘For God’s sake, do one thing.’ However then there’s this: ‘We have to do extra. Within the 12 months after the Buffalo tragedy, our nation has skilled greater than 650 mass shootings and properly over 40,000 deaths as a result of gun violence, in keeping with one evaluation.’”
The hyperlink, in fact, took readers to the Gun Violence Archive’s fundamental web page.
Blatant LIes
In June 2023, we counted the variety of lies Biden had made about weapons or the Second Modification since he was elected: “Evaluation: Joe Biden has lied about weapons 304 occasions.”
“Biden has lied about weapons 304 occasions at greater than 65 public occasions since taking workplace, in keeping with an evaluation of official White Home transcripts by the Second Modification Basis’s Investigative Journalism Mission. In truth, Biden lies practically each single time he mentions firearms, gun rights or the Second Modification.”
In July 2023, we confirmed how for Biden’s ATF, homebased gun sellers grew to become low-hanging fruit.
“Earlier than Joe Biden declared conflict on gun sellers, ATF inspectors used a five-percent rule. If lower than 5 p.c of a gun vendor’s paperwork contained errors, the ATF would take minor corrective motion, often a warning letter or a warning convention. If greater than 5 p.c of the transactions contained errors, sanctions could possibly be extra extreme. However after Biden weaponized the company, something goes. Even a minor clerical error is now seen as a ‘willful’ violation of ATF guidelines, and the vendor’s Federal Firearm License is in jeopardy,” we wrote.
In February 2024, we revealed one in all our most essential tales: “How Joe Biden’s Workplace of Gun Violence Prevention is directing the conflict on weapons.”
“When the workplace was unveiled in September 2023, President Joe Biden stated it will, ‘centralize, speed up, and intensify our work to save lots of extra lives extra shortly. That’s what it was designed to do. It’s going to drive and coordinate a authorities and nationwide effort to cut back gun violence.’ The workplace wields great energy however operates in secrecy, with out oversight. It has no web site. Its price range has by no means been made public. Its staffing ranges will not be identified. Solely three precise members have ever been recognized — the director and two deputy administrators. All three are radical anti-gun zealots. One has an extended affiliation with former President Barack Obama.”
Neither Biden nor Vice President Kamala Harris, who truly oversees the workplace—a minimum of formally—has ever clearly stated what the workplace is meant to do, apart from “cut back gun violence” and “construct on historic actions taken by President Biden to finish gun violence.”
A Legacy of Assaults on American Gun House owners
Biden’s historic actions included requires purple flag legal guidelines; common background checks, which might open the door to firearm registration; banning widespread semi-automatic firearms and customary capability magazines; revoking licenses of gun sellers for minor clerical errors; and pushing Congress to go legal guidelines that may power gun homeowners to adjust to firearm storage rules, which might seemingly be adopted by obligatory house inspections to insure compliance.
Our protection has included a number of tales in regards to the legal costs President Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, as soon as confronted, which Joe lately whisked away by way of an enormous pardon.
This concern ought to function the guts of any Biden story. It doesn’t matter what they do, regardless of how severe the offense, no Biden will ever see the within of a jail.
That, sadly, is Joe Biden’s actual legacy.
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