Biden Readies Plan B With
Executive Actions Against Your Guns

Joe Biden likes to brag about how he “took on the NRA and won” as a senator during the 1990s. But, as chief executive, he has signed exactly zero gun-control bills into law, and his prospects for doing so become more challenging each day due to your vigilance in defending our rights.

But it hasn’t been for lack of desire or effort on his part. Biden remains a committed firearm prohibitionist, and he would gladly ban and seize any class of firearms he could.

Moreover, he isn’t giving up on the issue. Instead, he is turning his attention toward executive actions to clamp down, not on criminals, but on all Americans’ access to firearms.

Last March, The New York Times ran a hit piece against a federal official named Marvin Richardson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). His offenses, according to that article, were being “industry-friendly” and attending a conference hosted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group for America’s firearms and ammunition companies.

But that’s like saying the police chief who attends a meeting of a local civic association is getting too cozy with potential lawbreakers, rather than considering the occasion an opportunity for the chief to promote cordial and cooperative relationships for the betterment of the whole community.

The Times article reflects a bizarre view of how ATF should regulate legitimate industry, but it speaks volumes as to how gun- controllers view government officials. Simply put: If they’re not actively trying to shut down firearms and ammunition businesses by any means possible, they’re not doing their jobs. .....