This is simply a deflection from the problems plaguing America, an attempt to whip up his foaming at the mouth moonbat base
Biden expected to release rule on ghost guns in days
The Biden administration will come out with its long-awaited ghost gun rule — aimed at reining in privately made firearms without serial numbers that are increasingly cropping up at crime scenes — as soon as Monday, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
Completion of the rule comes as the White House and the Justice Department have been under growing pressure to crack down on gun deaths and violent crime in the U.S.
The White House has also been weighing naming Steve Dettelbach, a former U.S. attorney from Ohio, to run the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, the people said. Biden had to withdraw the nomination of his first nominee, gun-control advocate David Chipman, after the nomination stalled for months because of opposition from Republicans and some Democrats in the Senate.
For nearly a year, the rule has been making its way through the federal regulation process. Gun safety groups and Democrats in Congress have been pushing for the Justice Department to finish the rule for months. It will probably be met with heavy resistance from gun groups and draw litigation in the coming weeks.
The devil’s in the detail. How many ghost guns are in private hands who are not criminals? What happens if it turns out that the majority used in crimes in Democratic Party run cities by minorities, and they’re being prosecuted more? We all know the actual crime statistics involving crimes with firearms, shootings, and murders.
The rule is expected to change the current definition of a firearm under federal law to include unfinished parts, like the frame of a handgun or the receiver of a long gun.
Pieces of firearms are not firearms. A guitar body is not a guitar till you’ve gotten all the pieces and assembled it.
In its proposed rule released last May, the ATF said it was also seeking to require manufacturers and dealers who sell ghost gun parts to be licensed by the federal government and require federally licensed firearms dealers to add a serial number to any unserialized guns they plan to sell.
The rule would also require firearms dealers to run background checks before they sell ghost gun kits that contain parts needed to assemble a firearm.
I’m just wondering, do they actually have the statutory authority to do this? One would think this is the type of thing that requires the duly elected Legislative Branch, not the Executive. But, hey, since Congress often abdicates their responsibility to be the law makers by passing laws that are overly broad and give the Executive way too much freedom to make laws themselves.
A second question would be “what else is hiding in the rule that will have consequences for law abiding gun owners?”