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By Larry Keane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

President-elect Joe Biden had a rare moment of clarity when it comes to gun control. He\u2019s got a really big obstacle, called the Constitution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The president-elect spoke with civil rights leaders in a virtual meeting. An unknown individual recorded the session and the media got a hold of it. What President-elect Biden admitted was enlightening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am not going to violate the Constitution. Executive authority that my progressive friends talk about is way beyond the bounds\u2026there is a Constitution,\u201d President-elect Biden is heard<\/a><\/strong> telling the meeting attendees. \u201cOur only hope and the way to deal with it is, where I have executive authority, I will use it to undo every single damn thing this guy [President Donald Trump] has done by executive authority, but I\u2019m not going to exercise executive authority where it\u2019s a question, where I can come along and say, \u2018I can do away with assault weapons.\u2019 There\u2019s no executive authority to do away that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not a King<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Short answer: President-elect Biden knows he\u2019s not a king. He can\u2019t rule over subjects. He must govern his fellow citizens and the document that gives him that authority also limits him from unilaterally grabbing up rights from American citizens \u2013 also known as \u201cthe People.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The American Republic was structured this way by the Founders for this very reason. The Executive Branch is charged with running the country, but its authority is checked by the Legislative Branch, or Congress. Its also checked by the Judicial Branch, which itself, is checked by the Executive Branch and Legislative Branch. No single branch of the three pillars of government gets full sway. It\u2019s called the Separation of Powers doctrine. The Founders built it this way so all three are accountable to \u201cthe People\u201d who put them in a position to represent their interests and there are checks and balances on each branch of government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why President-elect Biden also lectured those on his virtual meeting to cool the heated \u201cdefund the police\u201d rhetoric. It\u2019s not helping his cause to win over the final two U.S. Senate seats, which would give him a unified Legislative Branch that\u2019s aligned with the goals of the Executive Branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, President-elect Biden was telling the civil rights leaders to slow their roll with vilifying cops, so they can get the final seats needed to flip the Senate. Then, they can ram through whatever legislation they want, including blowing up the filibuster, packing the U.S. Supreme Court and enacting unconstitutional gun control laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Mexico Proves More Gun Control Does Not Mean Less Crime<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI just raise it with you to think about how much do we push between now and January 5 \u2013 we need those two seats \u2013 about police reform. But I guarantee you, there will be a full-blown commission. I guarantee you it\u2019s a major, major, major element,\u201d President-elect Biden said<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That doesn\u2019t mean an incoming administration is deferring out of respect for the U.S. Constitution. It is just the opposite. He is telling his supporters to lay low, bide their time and those gun control promises from the campaign trail will come if they can deliver U.S. Senate seats allied with their cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gun control supporters are growing impatient. Antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg\u2019s gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety is demanding a \u201craft<\/a><\/strong>\u201d of gun control immediately. They don\u2019t care about the Constitution, protected rights or the legislative process. Specifically, they want<\/a><\/strong> to criminalize private firearm transfers, regulate precursor firearm parts and funnel tax dollars into federal studies to back their claims for more gun control. They would have President-elect Biden use Executive Orders to force these changes without the consent of Congress. Just yesterday both President-elect Biden and vice-president-elect Harris called for Congress to pass \u201ccommon sense\u201d gun control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds Autocratic<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

One columnist, Bambi Majumdar, appearing on the website MultiBriefs<\/a>,<\/strong> wrote that Biden-Harris administration gun control is \u201c\u2026not going to be a problem for law-abiding gun owners. The problem would only exist for troublemakers. Biden, a gun owner himself, supports a stricter interpretation of the Second Amendment. His focus isn\u2019t banning all guns but assault weapons\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majumdar claims the gun confiscation plans presented on the campaign trail aren\u2019t a problem because they only affect the owners of the\u00a020\u00a0million-plus<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0modern sporting rifles in circulation today, the most popular selling centerfire rifle that\u2019s used daily for lawful purposes. President-elect Biden claimed to own two shotguns \u2013 a claim he made when he\u00a0berated<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0a union worker for questioning his Second Amendment commitments \u2013 but no one has seen them. He did once\u00a0advise<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0people to buy a shotgun, and told his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, to \u201cfire two blasts\u201d if there\u2019s a perceived threat. There are\u00a0photos<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of him in a squirt gun battle with his grandchildren. There\u2019s no proof, to our knowledge, he\u2019s part of the gun-owning community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majumdar has other infringements both she and the president-elect think aren\u2019t problematic, including rationing gun sales, banning the manufacture, sale and import of standard capacity magazines, criminalizing private firearm sales and banning online ammunition and firearm sales, even though those firearm transfers must be completed in a face-to-face transaction with a proceed approval from the FBI. These are among the ideas that are being bantered about for executive action. That means gun control by edict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Majumdar is wrong, and she knows it. President-elect Biden knows these are radical overreaches of a Chief Executive who would be drafting these orders beyond the scope of his authority. Yet, that\u2019s what he campaigned on. Americans, by his estimation, have too much freedom and need to be reined in. He told America he was the one to do it. Now, he\u2019s being expected to deliver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a leader acts alone without the consent of \u201cthe People,\u201d it\u2019s dictatorial. It\u2019s despotic. It\u2019s tyranny. Ironically, it is the entire reason the Second Amendment was protected by the Constitution. It\u2019s was to protect the people when a leader ignored their rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Larry Keane\u00a0<\/strong>is Senior Vice President of Government and Public Affairs and General Counsel for the\u00a0National Shooting Sports Foundation<\/a>, the firearms industry trade association.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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