President Joe Biden said he would consider further executive action on guns and criticized former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, in an interview with Univision that took place last Wednesday and aired Tuesday. Don’t worry, no one will touch your gun if Trump wins. ”
asked interviewer Enrique Acevedo.[G]Nonviolence remains the number one cause of death for children in America. Latinos across the country are making it a top priority, especially in places like El Paso and Uvalde, Texas. Your administration has called on Congress to pass common-sense gun control measures, but that is unlikely to happen in the coming months. If you are re-elected, would you consider taking further executive action on this issue?”
Mr. Biden said, “That’s right. Look, I worked with Dianne Feinstein to clear the first limit on the number of bullets that can be loaded into assault weapons and rifles. You need 100 rounds in a rifle or an AR-15.” That idea was when I was out in Uvalde. I met all of those families. I spent four hours with them. I looked at their expressions of pain. . I saw what they were feeling. I could feel it. And that thought and his phrase [in] Another situation where there was a mass shooting, I think it was El Paso, he said — they said what to do about it, so he said, just get over it, You have to get over it, our idea is that there are no background checks on people who buy weapons, the idea that we’re going to be in a position where he says – he told the NRA, “Don’t worry. Please, no one will touch your gun if I tell you,” he famously said.—I taught Second Amendment law in law school, and there were limitations from the beginning. It was not possible to own cannons. You can’t own a rifle or a gun, but there are things you can’t do. They were not weapons of war. So, look, when we passed the recently passed law outlawing things like weapons made to be untraceable, we passed the first major gun control in over 30 years. And that’s not enough. I think we have to do more and I’m fully committed to it. And I asked Congress, and if I win Congress and get re-elected, we’re going to do the same thing again. We will definitely eliminate these weapons. ”
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