The Biden Administration will almost certainly make a run at some gun-grabbing soon. It is a major wish list item for the Left and they don’t want to miss a chance while they have, sort of, control of Congress. Recent votes by Democrat Senators Joe Manchin, Kyrsten Sinema, and others may make it difficult to get an actual majority to pass anything, however.
Biden himself has long been an advocate of wrong-headed and un-Constitutional gun control measures. He was involved in the 1994 “Assault Weapons” ban that thankfully expired. He likes to talk about getting “Weapons of War” off our streets meaning guns like the AR-15. But those are exactly the kind of weapons carried by an individual foot soldier who would serve in the well-regulated militia. And they are fully protected by the Second Amendment.
A major problem for any of their new cunning plans is the D.C. v. Heller decision of 2008. Justice Scalia wrote many important opinions during his brilliant service to this country, but this one may be the most important for keeping the Republic, and all of us, free.
He took almost every argument the anti-gun forces make and logically, historically, and legally destroyed them. D.C. v. Heller is a virtually bulletproof opinion. That will prove the biggest obstacle Biden and friends face in trying to abridge that vital right enshrined in the Constitution.
–Jim Hanson served in the U.S. Army Special Forces and is now Executive Director of America Matters and the author of Winning the Second Civil War: Without Firing a Shot
