By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
In a blistering rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s Independence Day remarks about deadly shootings over the holiday weekend, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Friday accused the president of being “determined than ever to make gun manufacturers vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits in the hopes of bankrupting the firearms industry.”
The White House issued a statement from Biden in which he said, “It is within our power to once again ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, to require safe storage of guns, to end gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and to enact universal background checks.”
But CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb fired back, asserting Biden “is once again trying to penalize tens of millions of law-abiding citizens and devastating an industry because he is incapable of doing anything meaningful about violent crime.”
“He is trying to deflect public attention away from his policy failures,” Gottlieb said, “and his son’s legal problems with drugs and a serious gun law violation, by blaming gunmakers and honest gun owners for crimes they did not commit.”
CCRKBA had earlier condemned the Justice Department’s deal with Hunter Biden, which allowed him to plead to drug misdemeanors and essentially skate on the alleged gun law violation. At the time, Gottlieb questioned why any citizen should respect “any gun laws if the president’s son gets a pass.” He decried what amounts to a “double standard” on gun law prosecutions.
Biden’s July 4 statement was essentially a rehash of his previous gun control demands, but Gottlieb added another perspective.
“Biden’s proposals amount to smoke and mirrors, and deflection away from his, and his party’s, monumental failures to prevent crime and hold criminals responsible,” he stated. “He would have us believe that banning the most popular rifle in America, locking up guns and allowing expensive, but meritless, legal actions to financially devastate gun companies is the solution to America’s violent crime problems.
“He doesn’t dare admit that the thousands of laws already on the books—pushed through Congress and state legislatures by members of his own party—have failed miserably,” Gottlieb added. “He is continuing to scapegoat gunmakers and gun owners, and in the process he and his handlers are trying to destroy Second Amendment rights, which have been the backbone of liberty in this country for more than two centuries. And the only thing he has actually accomplished is to fuel more gun sales with his gun ban rhetoric.”
The Biden administration has suffered several legal setbacks in the gun policy arena. Recently, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Texas ruled the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives exceeded its authority in issuing its “final rule” on frames and receivers.
Last month, a federal court granted a preliminary injunction against the Biden administration’s flip-flop on regulating pistol arm braces, protecting members of some gun rights groups.
“The thing Biden and his cronies have underestimated, and which makes them furious,” Gottlieb observed, “is the willingness of American gun owners to fight back. Rest assured, CCRKBA will not stand idly by while this administration tramples on the Constitution.”
