{"id":134836,"date":"2020-10-06T11:04:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=134836"},"modified":"2020-10-06T11:04:22","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T01:59:19","slug":"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF-1024x639.png\" alt=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\" class=\"wp-image-134838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF-400x250.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF-768x479.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/BetoBidenNSSF.png 1102w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEWTOWN, Conn.<\/strong> \u2013 NSSF<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>, the trade association for the firearm industry, is focusing on former Vice President Joe Biden\u2019s radical antigun campaign promise to ban, register and confiscate the most popular selling centerfire rifles \u2013 the modern sporting rifle \u2013 sold in America today. Biden borrowed a page from the failed campaign of Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke to craft an\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/gunsafety\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\">agenda<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that would hobble Constitutionally-protected rights for law-abiding Americans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden\u2019s gun grab isn\u2019t original, but is it is shockingly honest that they admit the end game. His campaign promise to confiscate guns rips the mask off the lie told by gun control for decades,\u201d said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. \u201cYes, they are coming for your guns. The Biden-Harris campaign literally spelled out how they would do this and would violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution, but instead destroy it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden-Harris\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/gunsafety\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>gun control agenda<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0proposes to ban the sale and manufacture of modern sporting rifles, or what the campaign terms \u201cassault rifles\u201d or \u201cweapons of war.\u201d In fact, these firearms are just\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/msr\/?hilite=%27modern%27%2C%27sporting%27%2C%27rifle%27\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>semiautomatic firearms<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that use 100-year-old technology and have been sold commercially since the early 1960s. Semiautomatic firearms expend one round for each squeeze of the trigger, unlike the military\u2019s automatic firearms that continue to fire automatically while the trigger is depressed. The Biden campaign is\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2018\/05\/14\/assault-weapons-explained\/#:~:text=%22Defining%20an%20assault%20weapon%E2%80%94in,are%20' target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"black%20and%20wicked%20looking.\">purposefully conflating<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0the similar appearances of AR-15s and the military\u2019s M-16 and M-4 rifles to confuse the American public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden proposes that all&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/nssf-releases-firearms-production-figures\/?hilite=%27firearm%27%2C%27production%27%2C%27figures%27\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>18 million-plus<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;modern sporting rifles in circulation would be registered in the same onerous manner as automatic firearms and regulated under the 1934 Gun Control Act. That would require current owners to register these rifles with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), pay a $200 tax, submit fingerprints, photos, and complete duplicitous background checks for firearms they already passed a background check to purchase. They would also be subjected to random and unannounced ATF inspection of their firearm and would be registered in a federal watchlist of firearm owners. Further, permits regulated under the 1934 NFA are already backlogged by more than nine months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden campaign has a&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/gunsafety\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\">plan<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;for those who would choose not to comply. Those individuals would be given two options: be forced to sell the property to the U.S. government using their own tax dollars to do so or face&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2019\/08\/06\/biden-assault-weapons-national-buyback-program-sot-ac360-vpx.cnn\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>forcible confiscation<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;by law enforcement authorities. Conservative estimates would require $9-18 billion of taxpayer funds to subsidize this gun confiscation scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biden-Harris gun control plan would also ban the manufacture and sale of so-called \u201chigh capacity\u201d magazines. His campaign&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/gunsafety\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\">website<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;grossly compares hunting to the horrific murder of children, claiming the federal government protects ducks more than kids. This disgusting comparison is as wrong as it is appalling. Murder is illegal, plain and simple. The value of human life is undeniably greater than that of animals. That\u2019s why the industry opposes these limits because in a moment of crisis when defending one\u2019s own life, arbitrary magazine capacity limits put law-abiding Americans at a disadvantage to criminals who, by definition, disobey laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Modern sporting rifles are commonly and lawfully used for hunting, recreational and competitive target shooting and home defense. More than&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/first-time-gun-buyers-grow-to-nearly-5-million-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>5 million<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;Americans purchased a firearm for the first time in 2020, based on a NSSF retailer survey. Fully&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/d3aya7xwz8momx.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/FirstTimeResearch.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\">40 percent<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;of these new gun owners are women. The largest increase of any demographic is among African-Americans, which skyrocketed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/nssf-survey-reveals-broad-demographic-appeal-for-firearm-purchases-during-sales-surge-of-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><strong>58 percent<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;over 2019. To date, more than 13.8 million background checks have been completed for the sale of a firearm, surpassing 2019\u2019s full-year total of nearly 13.2 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NSSF strongly opposes these unconstitutional proposals of the Biden-Harris campaign and encourages all Americans to vote on Election Day to protect their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About NSSF<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen\u2019s organizations and publishers nationwide. For more information, log on to\u00a0<\/em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nssf.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"biden-would-ban-and-criminalize-best-selling-centerfire-rifle-the-modern-sporting-rifle\" title=\"Biden Would Ban and Criminalize Best Selling Centerfire Rifle: The Modern Sporting Rifle\"><em>www.nssf.org<\/em><\/a><\/strong><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-f222538e-cdff-4316-a49d-86236215e890\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden borrowed a page from the failed campaign of Robert Francis \u201cBeto\u201d O\u2019Rourke to craft an agenda that would hobble Constitutionally-protected rights for law-abiding 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