By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has issued a scathing rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s demand late in his State of the Union speech that Congress enact stricter gun control laws, including a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity magazines.”
Biden insisted “These laws don’t infringe on the Second Amendment.”
That is simply not true, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. He called Biden’s comment the president’s “biggest fib of the night.”
“Crusading to disarm law-abiding citizens hasn’t saved a single life in this country,” Gottlieb said. “Banning commonly-owned firearms definitely violates the Constitution, and Biden knows it.”
Larry Kean, senior vice president and general counsel of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, also criticized Biden’s remarks about guns and the firearms industry. Writing an Op-Ed response to Biden’s State of the Union address, Keane accused the president and his speechwriters of “knowingly lying to the American people to peddle more gun control.”
“It’s a tale as old as time,” Keane stated. “If President Joe Biden is giving a major speech, he’s going to lie about the firearm industry and the Second Amendment. Like clockwork, the president rattled off his favored laundry list of gun control requests and included several falsehoods in his first State of the Union address to the American people.
“The president and his handlers continue to peddle the lies even as record numbers of Americans are lawfully purchasing firearms and support for more gun control erodes,” Keane continued. “He’s already been fact-checked as wrong so many times it’s hard to keep count.”
Where Biden went wrong was in his claim the firearms industry is exempt from liability due to a federal law passed under then-President George W. Bush. The Associated Press reported Wednesday, “That’s false.”
“While gun manufacturers do have legal protections from being held liable for injuries caused by criminal misuse of their weapons thanks to the 2005 Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, they are not exempt or immune from being sued,” the AP detailed.
“The law lays out exceptions where manufacturers or dealers can be held liable for damages their weapons cause, such as defects or damages in the design of the gun, negligence, or breach of contract or warranty regarding the purchase of a gun,” the news agency fact checker said.
But that wasn’t Biden’s only credibility gap. CCRKBA’S Gottlieb came out swinging in a scathing statement in which he bristled, “His claim that bans on so-called ‘assault weapons’ and original capacity magazines are ‘proven measures’ to reduce violent crime is demonstrably untrue. Just look at the FBI Uniform Crime Report.
“And we should note these are the same kinds of guns and magazines Ukrainian citizens are using to defend their freedom from a savage enemy bent on killing innocent civilians including women and children,” Gottlieb added.
Keane concurred, observing, “The duplicity of denying gun rights to American citizens and lauding the bravery of Ukrainians defending their homeland is staggering.”
