Today, President Biden waded back into the politically fraught politics of gun control, announcing steps to crackdown on “ghost guns,” which he said have become “weapons of choice for many criminals.” During a Rose Garden event, Biden acknowledged the executive actions stemmed from an inability to get such measures through Congress and pushed back against the gun lobby’s contention that what he is doing is “extreme.” He repeated calls for Congress to pass an assault-rifle ban and other stalled measures.
Biden also formally announced the nomination of Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney in Ohio, to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The bureau has been without a Senate-confirmed leader since 2015. Biden’s announcements come in a midterm election year in which Republicans are eager to brand his party as soft on crime and Democrats are seeking to push back. Biden repeated his opposition to the “defund the police” movement, saying he favors additional investments.
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The latest: Biden, holding a ghost gun, announces new crackdowns on the weapons
Return to menuPresident Biden held a half-built ghost gun at a table near the lectern on the White House lawn Monday as he announced new measures to stop the proliferation of the untraceable weapons.
The president has made gun regulation a centerpiece of his administration, and has specifically drawn attention to the spread of ghost guns — weapons that can be obtained by anyone, can be built at home and have no tracking number, making them invisible to the criminal justice system.
According to the White House, the new Justice Department rule bans the business of manufacturing the most accessible ghost guns, including “buy build shoot” kits that anyone can buy online or at a store without a background check.
The president on Monday demonstrated how these kits work, holding the disassembled ghost gun before the crowd and noting they “are weapons of choice for many criminals” because of how easily they can be obtained and hidden.
“Not hard to put together,” Biden noted. “ … A felon, a terrorist, [a] domestic abuser [can] go from a gun kit to a gun in as little as 30 minutes.”
The president said he had “trouble” passing such legislation through Congress, and accused the gun lobby of trying to slow these measures, saying the National Rifle Association described the rule as “extreme.”
“Let me ask you, is it extreme to protect police officers and protect our children?” Biden asked. “[Is it] extreme to keep guns out of the hands of people who couldn’t even pass a background check?”
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