“Fact-Checkers” Can’t Keep Their Story Straight in Denying Biden’s Support for Banning Certain Handguns

Joe Biden just made his first public appearance last week. most recent push After six people were shot to death in a Mississippi small town, it was time to establish gun control.

Biden urged universal background checks and banning high-capacity magazines. “safe storage” This would allow firearms producers to be held civilly liable for gun violence. It would also end the guns industry. Biden has always fought for the reinstatement of the 1994 assault weapons prohibition.

Biden’s proposal to ban 9mm pistols has been largely ignored. This would lead to a ban on all handguns. 

So-called “fact-checkers” They tried to dispute it, but couldn’t tell their story straight. 

2020 PolitiFact’s Samantha Putterman I wrote an article to respond to the claim of NRA that “Joe Biden wants to ban 9mm pistols,” Rating their claim “False” While falsely claiming she was talking about banning high capacity magazines,

Biden’s position was reported by the Seattle Times. “While saying he supports the Second Amendment, Biden called the absolutist arguments of some gun-rights supporters ‘bizarre.’ Noting people can’t own machine guns or bazookas, Biden said, ‘Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons including pistols with 9-mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?'”

Putterman’s comment can certainly be interpreted however, as Andrew Bates (Biden campaign propagandist) said that the NRA was lying about Biden’s views.

It was amusing that the House Republicans sent a tweet in 2021 saying, “It’s funny!” “President Biden says he wanted to ban handguns,” Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact’s director of policy, rated the claim as false. He explained that Biden doesn’t want to ban all handguns, but 9mm pistols.

Twitter user House Republicans shared the following video from Biden responding to a question about gun control at a 2021 town hall. “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle, is ridiculous. I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things.” 

Greenberg His article is concluded.:

According to House Republicans, Biden wanted to ban handguns. This is false.

Biden talked about banning assault weapons, magazines that can carry 20 to 120 rounds or more of ammunition, and other types of weaponry. These policies wouldn’t affect most popular handgun models. Even if there were a few pistols that were not subject to the ban, this would not result in a blanket ban on handguns.

In fact, banning 9mm firearm sales would be criminalizing 57 Percent All handguns sold in America.

In contradiction to Putterman, May 2022 Biden responded to the massacre at Uvalde Elementary School in Texas by making another comment about 9mm bullets. This seemed to suggest that he supports a ban on all 9mm pistols. “‘A 22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to…save the life. A 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body,'” Biden said. “So the idea that these high-caliber weapons is of—there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of self-protection, hunting…and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute.”

Karine Jean-Pierre would return a few days later Try to deny Biden stated that he was in favor of banning handguns. But, apparently it’s still unclear to Biden’s administration if Biden supports the policies he has vocally supported for many years.   

Matt Palumbo is the author Fact-Checking with the Fact-Checkers: How to Hijack and Armorize the Fact Checking Industry  The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network Of George Soros
 

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