Biden to target 'ghost guns,' stabilizing braces in new gun control actions
By: Brittany De Lea (Fox News)
Really? Just how big a problem are ghost guns and stabilizing braces?
I don't have a problem with restricting or banning either ghost guns or stabilizing braces. But, let's face it, these measures really amount to nothing and will have very little, if any, impact on gun crime.
Joe Biden is blowing smoke to get media attention. That's the only reason for this. Biden is dodging the issue and only playing empty politics. Biden's trivial actions may allow the media to foist the phony notion that Biden is tough of guns. But Joe Biden is really only the ringmaster of a flea circus.
S E E D E D C O N T E N T
President Biden will announce gun control measures on Thursday that an administration official described as an initial set of actions aimed at addressing all forms of gun violence.
The president will detail several initiatives to be achieved through a mix of executive and legislative action, the official told reporters.
Biden will call on the Department of Justice to issue proposed rules to stop the proliferation of so-called "ghost guns" within 30 days. Ghost guns refer to kits that allow the recipient to assemble the firearm using provided parts. These guns do not have commercial serial numbers and are difficult to track.
The Justice Department will be given 60 days to issue a separate rule on stabilizing braces, which can turn a pistol into a more accurate weapon that fires like a rifle. Sixty days will also be provided for the DOJ to develop model "red flag" legislation that would allow friends and family members to identify an individual as a potential danger, thereby temporarily preventing the person from accessing a firearm.
The president will also highlight the steps his administration is taking to invest in community violence interventions and call on the DOJ to issue a firearms trafficking report.
The administration official said while Biden will call on Congress to act - including on closing loopholes in the background check system - he will not wait.
"Gun violence takes lives and leaves a lasting legacy of trauma in communities every single day in this country, even when it is not on the nightly news," the White House said in a statement.
The administration official told reporters on Wednesday that Biden is concerned about all forms of gun violence, not only mass shootings but also domestic violence and forms of community violence that disproportionately affect Black and Brown communities.
Biden's actions follow three recent mass shootings, and the administration official suggested there could be additional actions in the weeks and months to come.
Biden is expected to nominate David Chipman, an advocate of greater gun control, to serve as the director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a White House official confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday.
Chipman served as an ATF special agent for 25 years and was named Special Agent in Charge of the bureau's Firearms Program.
Chipman, who is a gun owner himself, has said he backs regulations that save lives but do not take firearms away from law-abiding citizens.
The administration official confirmed on Wednesday night that Chipman was selected to enforce gun laws while also respecting Second Amendment rights.
ATF is a law enforcement agency within the Department of Justice that strives to safeguard the public from criminal organizations and activity, including the illegal use and trafficking of firearms.
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C'mon, Joe. Stop kissing up to the press and just kicking the can. Ghost guns aren't as big a problem as is a ghost President.
Replacing Trump's Barnum & Bailey with Biden's Cirque du Soleil is really pretty superficial; they're both just circuses.
Joe has to kiss the press' ass since they're so nice to him all the time.
However, at least during the Trump administration, we had the most secure border in decades. Had he remained in power, the congress would have had no option but to work with him on immigration reform. But having mostly people that would not be dependent on the government migrating here as opposed to anyone was not in the best interests of the Democrats.
Say Joe, do you also propose we actually enforce the existing laws?
Like truthful answers to this question number 11;e on the Federal Form 4473 to purchase a firearm?
It's a really simple yes or no answer which I believe it was Hunter Biden could not answer truthfully to and lied, which would have denied him the ability to purchase the handgun which he "lost", his sister-in-law threw in a dumpster, and was found near a school!
By the way Joe, right there at the top of the form is this WARNING:
So Joe, I really need to ask one question of you. Why has Hunter escaped a fine and or imprisonment? Do you have a valid answer of will you just shuffle away mumbling under your breath?
SHHHHHH.
Thats part of my EVIL and devious plan for the feds to enact....
legalize the medicinal use of MJ with a state approved medical card and make it so that that card can cross state lines and recognized reciprically.
even if a state has legalized for recreational use , chances are one will get a medical card to fire up in any state they wish to travel to and not have to face the consequences if that particular state does not wish to legalize it recreationally .or go past medical use.
Those cards would then become a self identified data base .
NEXT up for the feds to do would be to have a national reciprocy of carry permits if one has a permit in one state , it is to be recognized in any other state as long as the permit follows federal law and guidelines .
my thinking is those that wish to carry will bite on that like a catfish on stink bait .
Now just because the feds decriminalize something doesnt mean they have to change the law for back ground checks , use of MJ can still make one a prohibited person ( and it does anyway now) its like a semi trucker having a highball going down the road in his rig.
you get a state issued MJ card , that info is entered into NICS and poof , firearms rights denied . have the card and get a carry permit and databases can be cross referenced and oops , LEO pays you a visit .
only reason it doesnt happen now is either the databases dont exist or no one has thought of it.
told y'all im getting old cranky and devious.
That would require several brain cells to think. If it hasn't been contrived already and shot down by rational people, it likely would be on the forefront.
Too early to really say anything since the DOJ and ATF have 30 days to come up with something .
As for "ghost guns" those have actually been in existance since before this country was founded , and currently it is still not against the law to make ones own firearm , be it from scratch or available parts .and somehow i doubt it ever will be.
The law also states that anyone can make their own firearm , and no serial number is needed , but here is the important part , the law states if a personally made firearm is to be sold it has to be serial numbered with an identifiable unique number and it has to be recorded with the ATF.
Ghost guns
this is actually returning to the kerfluffle about 3-d printed parts , thing is back then the issue was the expense of the equipment needed and costs of the polymers, one can not stop tech from advancing nor keep the cost from dropping once it becomes used more. going to require a lic for every 3 -d printer that comes off the factory floor and have them serialized?
I do think that ATF will likely readjust what they consider an unfinished frame , currently its in the 70-80 % range where after 80% it has to get a serial number and have a BGC done to purchase . That definition will be whats used to determine what is and is not a firearm.
ATF will likely be revisiting its definition of what makes a pistol/handgun such, currently all that is said is it cannot have a butt stock and is built/ designed to shoot single handedly and its a pistol/handgun.
Now can i make a couple predictions on what the general public that owns anything spoken about ?
sure can.
anyone that currently owns an AR pistol has a couple of options .
Cheapest being simply buy an entire new upper that is legal as a rifle , this gets them out of having an NFA firearm that they need a special lic for and have to pay a $200 tax for .
what to do with the existing upper since it may become NFA restricted ? gas axe it and make it non useable.
thats one option.
next option is simply rebarrel the current upper to a length that is NFA compliant and of legal length( 16 inches) as to not be affected by NFA regulations , 30 min task to replace a barrel and gas tube to non NFA regulated length, of course one would need to get new forestocks , but everything else is re usable. And one might want to put on a collapsable stock or a more traditional rifle butt stock.
what to do with the short barrel? hack saw in half and toss it in the scrap pile .
either way i can see a lot of people thinking they will be legislating something around 3 million AR pistols off the street, or make some tax money by changing the class , but all that will have to be done is simply change the configuration and it is no longer , illegal or taxable.
Barrels are actually cheap , stock replacement is also cheap .
circumventing the intent of legislation legally is priceless.
I'd be surprised if the pistol brace thing gets any traction. Maybe back to the older ATF ruling that you can't shoulder it, but that doesn't do anything to the criminal that decides to use one.
have to wait and see i guess.
thing is the AR isnt the only firearm out there that is modular and can be changed from a rifle/ long gun to a handgun and back , remember the old TC contenders?
selling point of those was a single frame , with the ability to change barrels and cals at will dependant on the shooters desire
TC went on to make the encore and pro hunter series as offshoots of the contender , the contender was basically a handgun design and barrels were available in any cal imaginable .
the encore and the prohunter took that barrel changing idea and expanded the ease of barrel changes and included rifle and shotgun barrels , with the associated stocks to go with each . and the only thing that has a serial number is the frame that holds the hammer and trigger mech .
with the encore and pro hunter one can have the pistol /cal of choice and still have the pistol chambered for what is usually considered a rifle round , or get longer rifle barrels and stocks to turn the pistol into a rifle .
And ATF has a reg about that too though little enforced .
they could if they wanted to look up the serial number of the frame and see what it was initially sold as .
why does that matter? well if sold as a pistol , it can be changed into a rifle and back.
BUT if the frame was sold as a rifle and it was turned into a pistol? that makes it technically an NFA item even IF one puts pistol handgrips on it you can make them longer , but cutting them down if it was sold as a rifle is a no no . lets not even talk about if one puts on a pistol barrel and is in the process of taking the rifle butt stock off, that makes it a SBR one can be taxed $200 and needs that hard to get lic for.
Thankfully thats almost too much work for them to try to prove in a court of law that someone did that intentionally.
I have 2 barrels for my TC encore , a 454 casull/45colt in handgun configuration and the way i bought it so the serial number is for a handgun.
And a 26 in long rifle barrel chambered in the old standby of 30-06 with the rifle stocks , will soon have a barrel chambered in 5.56 as well.
Did i forget to mention the TC is also a single shot ?
Yes I remember TC, not too long ago I was thinking about getting a .22 winmag and looked at some of theirs although if I remember correctly they had rebranded to another name that escapes me. I wound up getting a 5.7 upper for my pistol which I promptly put away, that ammo is way over priced. There have been kerfluffles over the pistol brace since AR pistols started gaining popularity yet they're still here. The idea that it makes a pistol more concealable is laughable. This is a red herring in response to one incident that would punish legal gun owners while doing absolutely nothing to stop other mass shootings.
contenders became contender G-2 ( 2nd generation), then became encores , and today are encore /pro hunters , cant use contender barrels on encore frames or vice versa
Thompson center ( TC ) also makes black powder rifles and pistols .
AR pistols are always going to have a problem , because of the buffer design , its always going to look like it has a reversed erection sticking out the back of the firearm. and because it sticks out , it can be damaged .
Thanks for the info. No doubt, yet this wouldn't just affect AR pistol owners.