(Townhall) After the White House announced a new executive order focused on the president’s “plan to reduce gun violence” on Tuesday, Biden addressed his latest fiat from Monterey Park, California. As usual, Biden’s remarks had, at best, a tenuous connection to truth and reality.
Pledging that his latest executive order dealing with firearms will “accelerate and intensify” his administration’s supposed crackdown on illegal firearms, Biden said his order would keep firearms out of the hands of criminals by taking “every lawful action possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks.”
BIDEN: “My executive order directs my Attorney General to take every lawful action possib— *BURP* —possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation.” pic.twitter.com/m7kCwBYXMJ
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Calling it “just common sense,” Biden did not explain how his executive order would keep firearms out of the hands of criminals who, unsurprisingly, don’t follow gun laws. Also notably absent from his executive order and remarks on Tuesday was any action to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and stop those capitalizing on the open border to traffic guns, among other contraband.
The president continued, emphasizing the portion of his executive order aimed at expanding “public awareness campaigns about red flag laws” that Biden said would instruct Americans on how they can flag people they encounter as “a danger to themselves or others.”
In addition, Biden’s executive order directs the Federal Trade Commission to investigate and report on “how gun manufacturers market firearms to minors and how much manufacturers market firearms to all civilians, including through the use of military imagery.”
Biden, as usual, leaned into the typical falsehoods he trots out whenever making remarks about guns. First, Biden claimed that gun manufacturers are “the only outfit you can’t sue these days.”
JOE BIDEN: The gun industry “is the only outfit you can’t sue these days.” pic.twitter.com/YcRS30194C
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Because this wasn’t the first time Biden told this lie, we’ve checked him for it before. He said the same thing on April 11, 2022, and we pointed out, as our friend Stephen Gutowski explained at The Reload, that it was a false claim:
Continuing through Biden’s falsehoods, he harkened back to the “assault weapons ban” he says he championed while in the U.S. Senate while saying his latest executive order does not absolve Congress “from the responsibility of acting” to pursue the policies he wants — namely, passing another ban on “assault weapons and high capacity magazines.”
BIDEN: “I am determined, once again, to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines!” pic.twitter.com/KDmIhk7ZXQ
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That walk down memory lane about his leading the fight to ban assault weapons brought Biden to his next falsehood, claiming that for “ten years that law was in place, mass shootings went down.”
Katie debunked Biden’s claim that the assault weapons ban reduced mass shootings or gun violence back in June of 2022:
