Biden Sparks Outrage by Targeting Common Ammo Caliber: ‘We’re Banning Handguns Now?’

President 👤Joe Biden used Memorial Day to call for limits on gun ownership that could extend to America’s most popular handgun.

Biden spoke about limits on 9 mm handguns, which according to the ATF’s Annual Firearms Manufacturing & Export Report, made up almost half of new pistols made in the U.S. in 2020.

As he often does, Biden began his comments by talking about his past as a senator, claiming that a New York City trauma doctor told him about the dangers of 9 mm bullets.

“And I sat with a trauma doctor, and I asked him — I said, ‘What’s the difference?  Why are so many people…’ — and not that many more people were being shot. This is now 20 years ago, or 25 years.  I said, ‘Why are they dying?’” Biden said.

“And they showed me X-rays. He said, ‘A .22-caliber bullet will lodge in the lung, and we can probably get it out, may be able to get it, and save the life.  A 9-millimeter bullet blows the lung out of the body,’” Biden claimed he was told by a doctor he did not name at a hospital whose name he could not recall, according to a White House transcript of his comments.

“So the idea of these high-caliber weapons is of — there’s simply no rational basis for it in terms of thinking about self-protection, hunting,” Biden said.