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Bidens gun control plan is terrible for working class firearm owners

It will put them at risk while doing little to curb gun violence.

 

By Kim Kelly

 

Kim Kelly is a freelance writer and labor organizer based in Brooklyn whose writing on labor, radical politics, and culture has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Republic, Teen Vogue, Pacific Standard and other publications.

 

July 16, 2020 at 2:01 p.m. CDT

 

Over the past few weeks, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has been rolling out task forces, policy platforms and all manner of other legislative bells and whistles as he ramps up his bid to unseat President Trump. Predictably, none of his proposals have hit with the same force as progressive blockbusters such as Medicare-for-all or the Green New Deal (neither of which he supports). But Biden did shake the table in a different way in 2019 when he debuted his gun control platform. Later that year, when he bumbled into a heated exchange with a Detroit factory worker, who accused him of trying to take away our guns, right-wingers and gun rights groups gloated over the spectacle. But even now, after the world has changed several times over, its still hard to shake the feeling that that worker was right. To the dismay of firearm enthusiasts on the left, Biden is still coming for some peoples guns. Its now just a matter of whos going to have them snatched and who isnt.

 

Former congressman Beto ORourke (D-Tex.) may have pulled the most attention with his brash anti-gun rhetoric during the primaries, but Bidens less ambitious plan still offers plenty of cause for alarm for firearm owners. Alongside a raft of more common-sense measures (and a confusing aside about smart gun technology), its centerpiece is a ban on the manufacture and sale of what are known as assault weapons, with a proposal to bring their regulation under the National Firearms Act. This 1934 law currently applies to machine guns (i.e. fully automatic firearms), silencers and short-barreled rifles, but Bidens plan would extend it to apply to what he characterizes as assault weapons, meaning semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns with interchangeable magazines that fire intermediate cartridges (the most notorious of which is the AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle) as well as high capacity magazines (generally understood under the 1994 bill to be those that can hold more than 10 bullets). Individuals who already own these items would be required to participate in a federal buyback program or register each of their qualifying firearms and magazines under the NFA which comes with a $200 price tag (on top of extra fees incurred during the registration process). When it was first enacted in 1934, that $200 fee was intended to be prohibitively expensive; now, inflation aside, it still is for many people.

 

Given how costly some firearms can be, that registration fee may not sound like too much of an added burden, but for a person who has already bought and paid for multiple qualifying firearms and magazines (or inherited them), that amount will add up quickly. Those who violate the NFA will also face up to 10 years in federal prison, and a potential $10,000 fine. Biden also wants to end the online sale of firearms and ammunition, including gun parts and parts kits that some people use to manufacture their own low-cost DIY firearms (known as ghost guns) further limiting accessibility.

 

Regardless of ones opinion on guns and gun control, it is obvious that this proposal will disproportionately impact poor and working-class communities. Those within those communities who already own firearms would be robbed of their ability to protect themselves and their loved ones, while their wealthier counterparts would skate by on their ready piles of cash. Stephen Paddock perpetrated one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history and could afford dozens of high-powered weapons and a plush Las Vegas hotel suite; this plan would have no effect on someone like him. In effect, Bidens plan sets in motion a war on guns, the same way his predecessors declared wars on poverty, crime and terror wars in which it was inevitably black and brown people who were the real targets.

 

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Bidens plan falls into a long line of government efforts to disarm the working class while keeping the lanes clear for the privileged who can afford whatever legal curveballs are thrown their way.

 

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On the most generous reading, the goal of Bidens plan is to ensure that there are fewer guns in the world and in the streets. But even in that spirit, we still have to think about whos going to end up with the guns that remain in private hands. People like Mark McCloskey, the lawyer made infamous for brandishing his AR-15 at Black Lives Matter protesters as they walked past his sprawling St. Louis mansion, will be able to pay whatever fees Biden throws at them, and will thus be able to hold onto as many weapons as they like. .... By contrast, leftist community firearm clubs invest serious time into training and safety education, carefully vet their memberships and work arm-in-arm with the marginalized communities they are invited to protect.

 

And yet under Bidens plan, the former are who will be able to afford to hold onto as much firepower as they so desire, while the people they want to hurt will be left high and dry. Simply depriving poorer people access to firearms will not rectify the structural issues such as poverty, inequality and lack of economic mobility that are correlated with gun violence. ...If cutting down on gun violence is the end goal here, what good could it possibly do to disarm the working class and ensure that only the well-heeled (and the agents of the state who defend them) will be able to hoard stockpiles of highly efficient weaponry? Gun sales have already skyrocketed during the ongoing coronavirus crisis, and political tensions throughout the country are incredibly high. This divisive plan will do little to curb gun violence, and will instead hammer home the vast inequalities still dividing this nation.

 

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So, in other words, Biden's carrying on the tradition of every other civil-rights violating, hoplophobic, gun-control pusher:

 

Perpetuating the most racist and classist legislation and restrictions meant to disenfranchise the most financially and socially vulnerable and downtrodden.

 

One could reasonably venture into Godwin territory and say that in that respect, Biden is exactly like the KKK and Hitler!

 

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All Biden had to do was stay locked up in the basement and keep his mouth shut. I think he's seen the polls that showed him up +10% over Trump and figures he's a lock. Mr. Biden has done us a huge favor and actually told us that he's going to do what we suspected him of doing. Combined with his recent announcement of endorsing the Green New Deal and increasing taxes, etc., the poll gap has halved in the past week. Keep talking Joe!

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I guess this confirms that at least when I buy my first hand gun when my foid arrives, I'll probably try to stay to an 8 to an 8 or 10 round magazine. Now if Trump gets reelected, then yeah I'll probably get one with a bigger magazine at that point. Figure if I buy 10 or under that less chance of that getting taken. To bad that I even have to think that way in the USA.
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I guess this confirms that at least when I buy my first hand gun when my foid arrives, I'll probably try to stay to an 8 to an 8 or 10 round magazine. Now if Trump gets reelected, then yeah I'll probably get one with a bigger magazine at that point. Figure if I buy 10 or under that less chance of that getting taken. To bad that I even have to think that way in the USA.

 

A) they make 10 round mags for guns that come standard with higher round count mags. Just buy 1 or 2 10 rounders for the “authorities”.

 

B) mags are not serialized.

 

C) mags are not tracked.

 

D) nobody knows what mags you have unless you show them to them.

 

E) think things like p365 with standard 10 rounders plus extra 12 and 15 rounders - there are, of course, others as well

 

F) you are better off buying smaller round count mags for the gun you want than settling for a different gun because it meets something that might not happen.....

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What exactly is the allure of a candidate or Party that wants to take your guns, defund the police, allies with violent Marxist revolutionary terrorists, wants to restrict freedom of speech and movement, and will quash the investigation into the biggest corruption scandal in US history?

 

You would have to believe the media.

I saw a recent poll showing Biden winning in the polls by almost 14%.

The very fine print showed that only 25% of the participants were registered Republicans and even less were independents.

If they were so certain of winning in November, the country wouldn't be so chaotic.

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Posted · Hidden by mauserme, July 20, 2020 at 05:45 PM - No reason given
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So, in other words, Biden's carrying on the tradition of every other civil-rights violating, hoplophobic, gun-control pusher:

 

Perpetuating the most racist and classist legislation and restrictions meant to disenfranchise the most financially and socially vulnerable and downtrodden.

People can't escape their political history. Biden has long inflated his accomplishments, especially around civil rights. He needs a basic lesson on the constitution, but unfortunately, so does our current POTUS.

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The 2016 polls were touted by all of the influencers (media/politicians/pointy headed academics) all Summer and early fall that Hillary was a shoe in.

Apparently even Democratic internal polling was only handled by sycophants.

They seemingly learned nothing and have stumbled, farted, belched and vomited in front of the American public for the last 3 1/2 years.

Are there groups out there that believe Joe Biden is Jesus Christ in a suit? Yes.

Are there still never Trumpers? Yes.

If you believe that traditional patriotism, values and beliefs in what has made our country the greatest society in the history of the world are now in the minority, well

then it won't matter who the President is, who the congress, is, who is in the courts.

The majority and the mobs will have succeeded in prying power from the people.

That may be in the near future, however I don't see it as soon as November.

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