• Latest
  • Trending
  • All
  • News
  • Business
  • Lifestyle
Biden Sparks Outrage by Targeting Common Ammo Caliber: ‘We’re Banning Handguns Now?’

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

May 31, 2022
Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind

Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind

July 10, 2025
CASEY RYAN: Woke Universities Cave To Trump Administration

CASEY RYAN: Woke Universities Cave To Trump Administration

July 10, 2025
Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson Clues Of Chinese Takeover Of America Hiding In Plain Sight

Reporter Tells Tucker Carlson Clues Of Chinese Takeover Of America Hiding In Plain Sight

July 10, 2025
Gavin Newsom Points Out That Far-Left Activism Is Synonymous With Breaking The Law

Gavin Newsom Points Out That Far-Left Activism Is Synonymous With Breaking The Law

July 10, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: Marsha Blackburn Pushes Back On Dems’ ‘Fearmongering’ About Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Law

EXCLUSIVE: Marsha Blackburn Pushes Back On Dems’ ‘Fearmongering’ About Trump’s ‘Beautiful’ Law

July 10, 2025
Tom Homan Accuses Biden Admin Of ‘Lying’ About Properly Vetting After MS-13 Kingpin’s Capture

Tom Homan Accuses Biden Admin Of ‘Lying’ About Properly Vetting After MS-13 Kingpin’s Capture

July 10, 2025
Previously Detained Columbia Graduate Now Seeks Big Payday From Trump Admin

Previously Detained Columbia Graduate Now Seeks Big Payday From Trump Admin

July 10, 2025
How New York Dems Lit $100 Million On Fire Buying Lights

How New York Dems Lit $100 Million On Fire Buying Lights

July 10, 2025
Celebrity Army Vet Admits To Lying About His Combat Record

Celebrity Army Vet Admits To Lying About His Combat Record

July 10, 2025
DAVID CASEM: President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Opens Frontier For Innovation, Now Congress Needs To Finish The Job

DAVID CASEM: President Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Opens Frontier For Innovation, Now Congress Needs To Finish The Job

July 10, 2025
Suspect In Violent Anti-Tesla Rampage Tied To National Leftist Gun Club: DOJ

Suspect In Violent Anti-Tesla Rampage Tied To National Leftist Gun Club: DOJ

July 10, 2025
‘Popular As Male Pattern Baldness’: John Kennedy Doesn’t Mince Words About Comey, Brennan’s Role In Targeting Trump

‘Popular As Male Pattern Baldness’: John Kennedy Doesn’t Mince Words About Comey, Brennan’s Role In Targeting Trump

July 10, 2025
  • Donald Trump
  • State of the Union
  • Elon Musk
  • Tariffs
  • Congress
  • Faith
  • Immigration
Thursday, July 10, 2025
  • Login
IJR
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls
No Result
View All Result
IJR
No Result
View All Result
Home News

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

by Western Journal
May 31, 2022 at 11:37 am
in News
240 12
0
Biden Sparks Outrage by Targeting Common Ammo Caliber: ‘We’re Banning Handguns Now?’

US President Joe Biden speaks in honor of Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 30, 2022. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

491
SHARES
1.4k
VIEWS
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

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.

“The 9mm bullet blows the lung out of the body.” – President Joe Biden

Will the fact checkers be flagging his comment as misinformation? pic.twitter.com/fFPPf7Cv44

— David Hookstead (@dhookstead) May 30, 2022

“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.

Biden then wandered into his familiar, disproven, refrain that cannons could not be purchased at the time the Second Amendment was passed.

“I mean, I just — and remember, the Constitution, the Second Amendment was never absolute. You couldn’t buy a cannon when the Second Amendment was passed.  You couldn’t go out and purchase a lot of weapons,” he said.

“And those who — not many are saying it anymore, but there was a while there where people were saying that, you know, ‘the Tree of Liberty is watered with the blood of patriots, and what we have to do is you have to be able to take on the government when they’re wrong.’  Well, to do that, you need an F-15, you know? Or you need an Abrams tank,” Biden said.

Biden’s comments ignited a furor.

We’re banning handguns now? https://t.co/VA9bsfYix2

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) May 30, 2022

Biden is targeting the most popular caliber in America. https://t.co/l1WTLeFa3L

— Jerry Dunleavy (@JerryDunleavy) May 30, 2022

OMG Biden has absolutely, utterly no idea what he is talking about here. 9 mm is the most common caliber for modern handguns. Including those used by most police & his own secret service agents. It’s the minimum useful self defense round. https://t.co/pwoKenPzHI

— Geoffrey Miller (@primalpoly) May 30, 2022


Biden’s attack on 9 mm guns was also not his first.

“The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon, whether — whether it’s a 9- millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle, is ridiculous,” he said last year at a CNN town hall.

As for Biden’s claim about cannon, it received four Pinocchios from The Washington Post, meaning it is at its highest level of untruth.

“We have no idea where he conjured up this notion about a ban on cannon ownership in the early days of the Republic, but he needs to stop making this claim,” the Post’s Glenn Kessler wrote.

He hasn’t.

This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.

Tags: Gun controlgunsJoe BidenSecond AmendmentU.S. News
Share196Tweet123
Western Journal

Western Journal

Advertisements

Top Stories June 10th
Top Stories June 7th
Top Stories June 6th
Top Stories June 3rd
Top Stories May 30th
Top Stories May 29th
Top Stories May 24th
Top Stories May 23rd
Top Stories May 21st
Top Stories May 17th

Join Over 6M Subscribers

We’re organizing an online community to elevate trusted voices on all sides so that you can be fully informed.





IJR

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Trusted Voices On All Sides

  • About Us
  • GDPR Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service
  • Editorial Standards & Corrections Policy
  • Subscribe to IJR

Follow Us

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In
No Result
View All Result
  • Politics
  • US News
  • Commentary
  • World News
  • Faith
  • Latest Polls

    Copyright © 2024 IJR

Top Stories June 10th Top Stories June 7th Top Stories June 6th Top Stories June 3rd Top Stories May 30th Top Stories May 29th Top Stories May 24th Top Stories May 23rd Top Stories May 21st Top Stories May 17th