Thursday, April 8th, 2021
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Biden wants to control “ghost weapons”
In the election campaign, Joe Biden campaigned for a tightening of US gun law. However, he is unlikely to find majorities for fundamental changes in the law. To this end, he now wants to initiate some measures to curb the violence of firearms.
President Joe Biden wants to tighten gun laws in the US with several orders. Among other things, it is intended to act against so-called ghost weapons, which are assembled from components, as a high-ranking representative of the White House explained. Such “ghost guns” can therefore easily be bought on the Internet and are sometimes assembled in just half an hour. They don’t have a serial number that the police could track down in the event of a crime.
This is an “increasing problem” for the security forces, it said. Biden is instructing the Department of Justice to come up with a regulation within 30 days to help stop its spread. Biden wants to sign the rulings on Thursday. He only saw the beginning of the fight for stricter gun laws, the officer said. The president continues to urge Congress to tighten the law. “We know that Americans in this country are dying of firearms every day,” she said in a telephone briefing.
Biden also wants to nominate David Chipman as head of the ATF supervisory authority, which, among other things, combats the illegal use and sale of firearms in the USA. Chipman was most recently an advisor to the Giffords Center, which advocates stricter gun laws. V.
A few weeks ago, two severe attacks in the United States had caused horror. In and around the city of Atlanta in the US state of Georgia, an attacker shot eight people in three massage parlors in mid-March. About a week later, a gunman killed 10 people in a supermarket in the town of Boulder, Colorado.
Biden’s hands are tied
After the two acts, Biden had called, among other things, to prohibit war-like weapons such as assault rifles. He is also planning regulations to check gun buyers and owners more strictly. Both steps have been discussed in the US for a long time, but have not yet found the necessary majorities in Congress. Many Republicans oppose tightening gun laws. The gun lobby is very strong in the United States.
Biden’s hands are partly tied, as is the case with the former Democratic President Barack Obama. A president’s rulings have limited influence. Legislators would have to act for more far-reaching changes. The Democrats currently have a slim majority in both houses of the US Congress, but would have to rely on Republican votes in the Senate.
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