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As the Russia-Ukraine war wages on, the world has witnessed the critical importance of the Second Amendment as Ukraine scrambles for more weapons and ammunition.
Despite these events, Joe Biden and Democrats have failed to learn their lesson on guns.
During Biden’s State of the Union Address, he called for a ban on “assault weapons” with “high-capacity magazines that hold up to 100 rounds.”
“Do you think the deer are wearing Kevlar vests?” he asked Americans during his speech on live television.
Apparently, this was Biden’s attempt at humor, but many Americans did not find it funny.
This absurd claim has been widely rebuked. Here’s one example:
More on this story via Breitbart News:
Biden also mentioned his push to “crack down” on guns that can be built from gun kits. He referred to such firearms as “ghost guns,” a moniker commonly used by office-holding Democrats seeking to secure more gun control.
Biden also used the SOTU to renew his call for the passage of universal background checks.
Breitbart News has previously noted that universal background checks criminalize private gun sales conducted apart from an FBI background check.
Such checks expand retail point-of-sale background checks so as to cover private points-of-sale. This criminalizes an individual who sells a 5-shot revolver to a lifelong neighbor unless that neighbor first undergoes a National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) check, conducted by the FBI.
