Biden's New Gun Control Regulation Shows Executive Branch Too Powerful
Brace yourself: Joe Biden has unilaterally created new crimes, and on June 1st, his latest effort to criminalize a large swath of America’s law-abiding gun owners took effect.
That’s right, Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has made the simple act of owning a pistol braced firearm a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years in prison, should the many disabled veterans and millions of other gun owners who use them fail to register with the ATF or dispose of their previously lawfully-owned accessory.
It is the ATF, after all, that had made clear in written opinions over the past decade (going back to the Obama-Biden Administration), that the braces in question were not in violation of federal law.
While this is yet another attack on the Second Amendment, even more damning, this tyrannical monstrosity is an attack on the rest of the Constitution as well. After all, Congress makes laws, not the President, so let’s return to first principles.
More than 800 years ago, the Magna Carta put into writing for the first time the principle that the king and his government were not above the law, placing limits on royal authority by establishing that “no free man shall be seized [or] imprisoned…except by the lawful judgement of his peers and the law of the land.”