#Trump pledges to 'roll back' Democratic President Joe #Biden’s #gun#regulations put in place by Democratic President Joe #Biden & to fire the #ATF chief during a lengthy rally speech to the #NRA on Sat, during which he accepted the influential group's #endorsement.
The address to thousands of #NRA members at the group's annual Leadership Forum in Dallas was light on new #policy, but he used the platform to urge #gun supporters to go to the polls in the Nov #election.
"We've got to get gun owners to vote," #Trump said in his wide-rangingspeech, which covered everything from his #criminal trials to #trade & #immigration over >90 mins.
During the speech, #Trump repeated a pledge to fire the director of the Bureau of #Alcohol, #Tobacco, #Firearms & #Explosives, known as the #ATF, on Day One of a potential administration. He accused that agency, which enforces #UnitedStates#GunLaws, of being heavy-handed w/ #FirearmOwners & revoking licenses on frivolous grounds.
No, they use children as an excuse to strip the rights of #Bodily_autonomy away from women, as just another stepping stone to give more power to the state and less to the people.
As Philip Bump notes, a majority of Americans support stricter gun laws and the right of women to access abortion. Despite this, a minority of Americans are allowed to block both gun control and the right to abortion through “manifested minority power.” Republican policies are all about enshrining minority control of the majority and locking this control in for as long as possible in the future.
Thurs, the #Biden admin announced they are closing what is known as the #"GunShowLoophole," by tightening up the definition of what it means to be "engaged in the business" of selling #firearms.
The #ATF has just implemented a change in the federal register language, which was previously more specific to who was selling guns, & the agency did it in accordance w/the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, passed in 2022.
The rule now explicitly lists the types of commercial activities that indicate whether a person should become a federally #licensed dealer & thus be required to run a background check; prevents people from evading the licensing & #BackgroundChecks requirements by claiming that they are just selling a few #guns, acc/to the WH; & prevents people from falsely claiming that guns are part of a personal collection & exempt a seller from running a background check on a buyer.
By being more specific & precise in the definition, #Biden admin ofcls on a call w/reporters said it would require more people to register for a federal selling #license & run a background check on the person they are selling to.
#POTUS said in a statement he has spent time w/people who lost loved ones to #GunViolence, & that he is taking action to make sure fewer guns are sold w/o #BackgroundChecks.
“It will also close the #GunShowLoophole & it closes the fire sale loophole as well by clarifying how #firearms dealers who go out of business or lose their #license must go about liquidating their inventory,” #MerrickGarland told reporters. “Under this #regulation, it will not matter if #guns are sold on the internet, at a gun show or in a brick & mortar store, if you sell guns [you] must conduct #BackgroundChecks.”
RW Media hosts (like #Hannity) are pushing #RFKJr HARD as a "Liberal Hero" who "champions the 'nutty' #liberal causes the Far Left adores" in hopes of him siphoning votes away from #Biden.
#JosephLieberman, the doggedly independent 4-term #US#senator from #Connecticut who was the Democratic nominee for VP in 2000, becoming the first Jewish candidate on the national ticket of a major party, died March 27 in NYC. He was 82.
The cause was complications from a fall, his family said in a statement.
Hi, everyone. This is what's going on in Freeport, Maine, right now. This gunfire, which sounds like it's coming from an assault rifle, is audible not just in our backyard but also near businesses and conservation trails, where it regularly occurs. The police know it's going on, and they know who's doing it, but they refuse to stop it. Could you please boost this message and help me spread the word that people should avoid Freeport, Maine? Thanks. #Guns#Maine#GunControl#Democrats#VoteBlue
A laboratory found a pattern of cell damage that has been seen in #veterans exposed to #weapons blasts, & said it probably played a role in the gunman’s spiral into #violence.
His brain was sent to a #Veterans Affairs laboratory in Boston that is known for its pioneering work documenting chronic #traumatic#encephalopathy, or #CTE, in athletes.
Acc/to the lab’s report, prepared on Feb 26 & updated on Wednesday, the white matter that forms the wiring deep in the #brain had “moderately severe” damage, & in some areas was missing entirely.
The delicate tissue sheaths that insulate each biological circuit lay in “disorganized clumps,” & throughout #RobertCard’s #brain there was scarring & inflammation suggesting repeated #trauma.
This was not #CTE, the report said. It was a characteristic pattern of damage that has been found before in #military#veterans who were repeatedly exposed to #weapons#blasts during their service.