Planned Firearm Restrictions Aim to Limit Ammunition and Private Sales | CLIP | Live With Josh

[Music] [Applause] hey welcome to Crossroads in this episode we'll be talking about the alternative methods of taking away your guns or restricting your ability to get them or ammunition because folks as the Supreme Court has issued rulings to defend the Second Amendment rights of American citizens making it so that all gun laws need to be interpreted with the original intent of the founding fathers the Biden Administration and the Democrats are looking for alternative methods of restricting Firearms roundabout ways of doing it now a newly drafted document aims to restrict private sale of firearms While others push to for example Place new restrictions on your ability to buy ammunition and there are many things like this Epic Times had this story it says President Joe Biden's Administration has drafted a document that would require background checks for all gun sales even transactions between private citizens according to a whistleblower group it says the US Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco firearms and explosives the ATF drafted the, 1300 page document which provides legal justification for a proposed rule that would require background checks for all gun sales everything and it's called the this is according to the Empower oversight whistleblowers and researcher research now the docu ment that was drafted allegedly by the Obama Sorry by the Biden Administration maybe the same thing at the direction of the White House according to the two whistleblowers who communicate with the organization this is what it is but it says that according to empower oversight their letter to attorney general Meritt Garland head of the US Department of Justice the rule proposed in that document represents an overreach of executive branch power and this is the argument for that'll give my take they say such an expansive rule that threats that treats all private citizens cens the same as federal firearms licenses would circumvent the separation of powers in the Constitution which grants all legislative powers to Congress while requiring that the president take care of the laws be that the laws be Faithfully executed in other words they're suggesting that Biden is overstepping his Constitutional Powers by bypassing Congress to push something that probably would not make it past Congress now remember that Barack Obama kind of ruled by executive order mainly in his second term in office he was issuing executive orders and many people said he was doing that to avoid Congress because at the time Republicans controlled Congress Obama would able to do anything otherwise and so he found a roundabout way to govern by decree Biden interestingly is alleged to be planning to do this with Firearms they note further in to the extent that such a rule prevents the private sale of firearms it would also clearly violate the second Amendment of the United States Constitution which declares that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed now it's an interesting move right now because if you remember the US Supreme Court the law of the nation recently made the determination that all gun you know laws in the US need to be interpreted through the lens of the founding fathers the the nature of how guns and gun laws were interpreted and in the time with the founding of this country and of course if you go back then what was the standard well it was these laws these rights shall not be infringed the founding fathers essentially believe there should be zero restrictions on firearms and any kind of restrictions of any type would be deemed unconstitutional were that the case now of course the interpretation as time has gone on is well there are new types of guns there are automatic weapons there's artillery there's cannons there's all kinds of crazy stuff do we let them have it well in the time of the founding fathers yeah you could actually own artillery and cannons in fact that was one of the big challenges Texas had when they said come and take it to the Spanish government at the time now given all of this though what does this represent what you're seeing is an attempt to regulate the ownership of firearms by going after things that do not direct include the direct ownership because the Constitution the way it's being interpreted right the way that it's being manipulated right now the Constitution says that you can own them but the government is saying well you can own them but can you buy them you can own them but what about the ammunition you can own them but maybe we can require you to have background checks you can own them but we have to have a registry if you own them you can own them but we will heavily tax the companies that manufacture them you can own them but we can try to shut down the businesses that provide them to you so that it's more difficult to get them you see where it's going and so all the areas surrounding the issue of ownership are being attacked through different forms of laws and this roundabout way is the method currently being used to try to restrict the ownership of firearms this indirect anti-gun approach I'll give you a couple examples of this now this is actually part of a broader agenda we just talked about of course the rumors the bid Administration is drafting this legislation I think it's probably true well I guess it's not legislation but let go through the legislative branch probably an executive order but right now gun restrictions that focus on things other than the guns themselves this is the tool being used you can take for example one part of this the push to restrict Guns by forcing people to take classes to get the permits now a lot of people would say well what's wrong with that uh if you're going to own a gun doesn't it make sense that you'd take a class to know how to use it you know you want to make sure that you know how to clean it properly that you know uh where the safety is that you know how to ratchet it and so on you know just basic tutorial type stuff well fine and dandy right people should have an idea of how to use a gun in my opinion but the issue is because in some areas they've placed the licensing of these trainers under the state they found that they can restrict the purchase of firearms by limiting the number of trainers that they allow to be you know operating Washington examiner said this a national group that Champions concealed carry rights warns warned of a growing effort to limit the distribution of permits to carry firearms on Wednesday says the US Concealed Carry Association for saving lives action fund told secrets that it has started a campaign to stop States from using backdoor tactics to make getting permits harder it says the campaign is focused on a Virginia lawmaker's proposal to remove the US Concealed Carry Association and na National Rifle Association as the groups in charge of safety education classes required to get a permit in other words these private proun organizations that currently are able to you know hold classes to get you your permit they're trying to make it so it's no longer under them instead it says the proposal from Democrat Senator uh this is Dan helmar would put the state Democrat State Dell Dan helmar sorry would put the state government in charge of the education curriculum so are you getting that rather than have it being run through these external private organizations they want to have the government in charge of the curriculum and notably in charge of the process now they note that a similar setup to this in California has led to a dramatic cut in the number of permits issued because the state cut the pool of instructors according to Media reports and so in other words the state says well you know what we can't have these third-party organizations determining what the safety standards are this needs to be regulated we need to make sure people are being taught properly so the state should manage it the state manages it and what do they do they make it so that they only have a few instructors so there's a very long waiting line and by regulating that waiting line and regulating the amount of classes they give and regulating the number of people who can attend those classes they're then able to regulate the flow through which people are able to get Concealed Carry Permits by regulating the process they regulate the Firearms you see now it says the group said the legislation would create a back door to restricting access to Concealed Carry Permits placing politicians in full control of how Virginians can exercise their fundamental right to self-defense