On Tuesday March 14th, our illegitimate president issued another illegitimate executive order. This one is intended to make it more difficult for Americans to purchase guns, by adding more odious hoops they must climb through, in order to exercise one of their most important God-given natural rights.
The changes made by this executive order are more incremental than drastic. Progressives are firm believers in the philosophy of incrementalism. Fewer individuals notice if their rights are stripped away by a gradual eroding. By the time most notice the full effects of the numerous little encroachments it is too late.
The stated purpose of the executive order is discussed in this article, which appeared in The Hill.
President Biden on Tuesday plans to announce an executive order that aims to increase the number of background checks conducted before gun sales, cracking down on firearms dealers who violate federal law.
The goal of the executive order, set to be unveiled during a Biden visit to Monterey Park, Calif., is to move the U.S. as close to a system of universal background checks for all gun sales as possible without requiring legislation from Congress. Biden has called for Congress to pass universal background checks, but such legislation is a non-starter in the GOP-controlled House.
As always with the Biden Regime, the actual implementation of this executive order will go far beyond the stated purpose. The effects will be far more onerous. The end result of this executive order will in fact result in universal background checks.
Like all federal gun control measures, background checks are unconstitutional. They infringe on our right to bear arms. There exists no provision in the Constitution granting the federal government the authority to conduct background checks on those wishing to purchase a gun. Progressives want to impose universal background checks because they will get to pick and choose who will be allowed to own guns. They get to dig real deep into the lives of everyone applying. They will discriminate against political enemies such as MAGA Republicans.
All executive orders that go beyond the members of the executive branch of the federal government are unconstitutional. This one is no different.
Buried in the executive order is this deeply unconstitutional provision.
The order will also increase the use of “red flag laws,” which allow a judge to take away a firearm from someone based on the suspicion that they could use it to harm themselves or others. Biden will direct members of his Cabinet to partner with law enforcement, health care providers, educators and other community leaders to encourage the effective use of red flag laws in the states that have them.
Red flag laws violate the Due Process clauses of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.
It is well past time for the Republican Party to grow a spine. Far too often the Grand Old Party has stood on the sidelines while progressives strip away the right to bear arms from the American people.