Biden Talked About Guns for 3 Minutes
... and Got Most Everything Wrong

By Larry Keane. April 29, 2021

President Joe Biden spoke for more than an hour to a limited Joint Session of Congress for his first major speech since his inauguration. It was during a three-minute stretch near the end, though, that the president got plenty wrong about firearms, the Second Amendment and the record number of diverse Americans who purchased guns during the last 15 months.

No Matter How Many Times You Say It ...

President Biden talks big about "taking on the NRA."

"I've done before and I'll do it again," he repeats again and again. "In the 90s we passed universal background checks. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold a hundred rounds…that can be fired off in seconds. We beat the NRA. Mass shootings and gun violence declined. Check out the report over ten years."

The NSSF did, and that's not what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report tells at all. In fact, it says the opposite. Others caught the president in his lie too.

According to the CDC report, the "Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), which also restricted magazine capacity, did not reduce crime rates." The kicker is that since the 10-year-ban expired in 2004, the violent crime rate in America dropped steadily while ownership of modern sporting rifles (MSRs) rose dramatically. Today there are more than 20 million MSRs in circulation. .....

"President Biden's address to the American people lasted more than 60 minutes but in the three minutes he spoke about firearms, he got a lot wrong. He's also wrong on what the American people want."

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