By Dave Workman

Editor-in-Chief

Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie has declared one major tenet of President Joe Biden’s executive order on guns “science fiction.”

The Republican congressman told Fox News that Biden’s agenda would not have prevented any public shooting, like the one the president was using to symbolize his visit to Monterey Park, California, where he signed the order Tuesday.

“Maybe [Biden] went to Hollywood because two of his policies are based in science fiction,” Massie told the network. “One of them is this ‘ballistics database’ where you’re going to take a fingerprint of a gun using the shell casing or the bullet. New York and Maryland tried this program. They spent tens of millions of dollars and after 15 years, never solved a single crime.”

Some gun enthusiasts are already talking about Biden’s apparent lack of knowledge regarding ballistics and chamber pressures. The executive order language seems to demonstrate that.

Biden will “Advance congressional efforts to prevent the proliferation of firearms undetectable by metal detectors. In recent years, we’ve seen the rise of technology that allows guns to be made with polymers and other materials that are increasingly capable of avoiding detection by metal detectors. President Biden is directing the Attorney General to help Congress modernize and make permanent the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988, which is currently set to expire in December 2023.”

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As noted in the Fox story, Massie dismissed Biden’s pledge to crack down on “undetectable” firearms. He asserted that functional firearms must have a metal barrel (steel) to handle the pressure of a discharge.

Consult a reliable reloading manual and one will find modern ammunition using smokeless powder generates thousands of pounds of pressure per square inch upon discharge. Massie told Fox News a shooter using the kind of gun described in Biden’s executive order could be maimed.

Massie also criticized the president for traveling to California for the media event. He noted the Golden State has “a higher-than-average mass public shooting per capita and they’ve got some of the strictest gun laws. In fact, he went to Los Angeles County. Unless you’re White and well-connected, you probably can’t get a permit to carry a concealed firearm there. Fewer than 1-in-5,000 have a concealed carry permit in Los Angeles County.”

“So he went to a virtual gun-free zone to announce these programs, and one of the things that he said he’s going to do,” Massie reportedly added, “is to somehow achieve what he calls universal background checks.”

Biden must realize he will not be able to ban so-called “assault weapons” during the remainder of his term, now that Republicans control the House of Representatives. The executive order route is all that remains, and it has limits. A president does not have the constitutional authority to ban guns, and attempting to ban semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15 and its clones would be considered folly by gun rights advocates and the firearms industry. Bans in California and Maryland are already being challenged in federal court.