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In this video we discuss what Biden just let slip on Gun Control Executive Orders! He's leaning exactly where we thought he would be, if he dared...

Articles for Reference:

"We are looking at that right now,” Biden said when asked about an executive order. “We are looking at what kind of authority I have relative to imported weapons as well as whether or not I have any authority to ... these new weapons that are being made by 3D equipment that aren't registered as guns at all. There may be some latitude there as well."

Nothing new here… Previous Presidents who have done the same thing:

1989 by George H. W. Bush
1998 by Bill Clinton, to ban the import of several types of semi-automatic rifles.

The Trace (Oct. 2nd, 2019)
https://www.thetrace.org/2019/10/presidential-candidates-executive-action-on-guns/

“How much power does the president actually have over gun policy?
When it comes to changing laws, not much. However, as the head of the executive branch, the president can direct how its agencies enforce gun laws and influence internal practices.”

“The president can prioritize enforcement of current laws, direct existing infrastructure like the background check system to operate differently, or, most dramatically, promulgate formal rule changes to rewrite the particulars of regulation. Outside of the DOJ, the president can also address the proliferation of guns through trade policy.”

“Joe Biden has said he would use executive action to block the importation of assault weapons. As vice president, his office was in charge of the Obama administration’s efforts to limit gun violence through executive action.”

“At the third Democratic presidential primary debate on September 12, a question on this issue drew Harris and Biden into a tense exchange. Biden insisted that the president’s executive authorities were limited when it came to cracking down on assault weapons by executive order, “Some things you can [do by executive order]. Many things you can’t,”

Expert Quotes from article

“The most significant thing the president can do is influence the ATF, and the ATF has to abide by what Congress has told it to do,”

“The president can’t establish universal background checks by executive order. A ban on the import of assault weapons is not the same as an assault weapons ban.”

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