Joe Biden’s campaign website contains a long list of promised gun control regulations, including:
…— Hold gun manufacturers accountable, make it so gun makers and sellers will be sued every time their guns are used improperly. These aren’t product liability lawsuits or cases where the companies broke the law in selling the gun, but simply any time someone is harmed by the product.
Kamala Harris explains that she believes that the president has the power to ban guns using Executive Orders. She also blames President Trump for creating the atmosphere that has lead to mass public shootings.
…MUIR: President Obama, after Sandy Hook, more than 23 executive actions, and yet here we all are today.
Dr. John Lott and University of Maryland Professor James Purtilo have an op-ed on crime and gun control regulations in Maryland. The piece has some interesting numbers on what has happened in Maryland after they passed their gun control regulations in 2013.
…For years, gun-control advocates told us that it is the job of police to protect them.
Here is some basic starter information on three types of laws that are being extensively discussed these days.
Background Checks on the Private Transfer of Guns (Universal Background Checks) — See here
Red Flag Laws — See here
Assault Weapon Ban (see here and here)
For much more in-depth info, please see Dr.…
After a shooting in California county where concealed handgun permits are banned for general citizens, Ford Motor’s solution is not to have Americans own guns? You can see the link available here.
…A man who had just been fired from a Northern California Ford dealership shot and killed two employees and then killed himself Tuesday evening, police and witnesses said.
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi talks about her desire to use a national emergency to enact gun control regulations. From February 14, 2019:
…just think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.
You want to talk about a national emergency? Let’s talk about today, the one year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America.
Congressman Louie Gohmert’s questions and comments regarding gun-control
Congressman Louie Gohmert gives a statement about universal background checks and fees associated with those checks impacting low-income Americans from being able to protect themselves. Congressman Gohmert made extensive use of the CPRC’s research in his statement to the committee (see here and here).…
background checks, campus carry, gun control, Universal Background Checks
Dr. John Lott has a major piece up at Fox News where he explains how a new Trump Administration agreement means “This Marks the End of Gun Control.” The piece starts this way:
…The federal government has finally recognized the obvious – that sharing instructions on how to make guns with 3D printers counts as constitutionally protected speech.
Mr. Mark Robinson made a very powerful statement before the Greensboro City Council. He was reacting to the Greensboro, NC Mayor’s proposal to stop hosting gun shows at the Greensboro Coliseum. Mr. Robinson talked about who is disarmed by gun control laws.
Gun control may disarm some criminals, but if its primary impact is to disarm law-abiding citizens, you will get increases in crime.…
Dr. Lott’s piece at Fox News starts this way:
…In Orlando on Thursday, President Obama again called on Congress to do something about these mass public shootings. But the dirty secret about the four different bills that the Senate will vote on Monday is that everyone knows that none of them would have stopped the Orlando massacre.
