President Joe Biden, Democrats, and rabid gun control activists are barreling forward with their push to ban so-called “assault weapons” the moniker attached to semiautomatic centerfire Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs).
While the left pushed for the ban more than 20 million MSRs are in circulation and the rifle has become dramatically more popular for recreational sport shooters, hunters and for owners who purchased the firearm for self and home defense.
However, President Joe Biden’s second nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Steve Dettelbach, answered questions from U.S. Senators in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee but struggled to define exactly what an “assault weapon is.”
According to The Gun Feed:
U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) keyed in on this and used time to question Dettelbach about his campaign for Ohio State Attorney General in 2018. Dettelbach supported a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and it earned him endorsements of gun control groups like Everytown for Gun Safety.
Sen. Cotton asked, “What is an assault weapon? Could you define it for me?” Dettelbach couldn’t define the rifle he wants to ban. “I did talk about restrictions on assault weapons. I did not define the term, and I haven’t gone through the process of defining that term,” he told Sen. Cotton. “That would only be for the Congress if it chose to take that up to do.”
“So you’re running for public office and you called for a ban on assault weapons, but you don’t have a definition for assault weapons? Is it because that there’s really not a category of weapons known as assault weapons? I mean, there’s rifles, there’s shotguns, there’s pistols,” Sen. Cotton added.
“I acknowledge that’s a very difficult issue. That is for this body to decide,” Dettelbach said.
