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Massie blasts Biden's latest gun control order: 'Science fiction' reforms that have failed

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Biden's reforms would not have prevented any mass shooting incident from 
'this century,' Massie says

President Biden's gun control advocacy led him to a "virtual gun-free 
zone" still wracked with violent crime, where he announced his latest 
executive order, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Tuesday.

Biden traveled to Monterey Park, Calif., to stump for the directive, which 
— in his words — will take "every lawful action possible to move us as 
close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation."

Massie said Biden chose the Golden State to announce such an order because 
it is where gun control laws have long failed.

"[California has] got a higher-than-average mass public shooting per 
capita and they've got some of the strictest gun laws," Massie said. "In 
fact, he went to Los Angeles County. Unless you're White and well-
connected, you probably can't get a permit to carry a concealed firearm 
there. Fewer than 1-in-5,000 have a concealed carry permit in Los Angeles 
County."

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President Biden has long championed red-flag laws and more gun-control 
efforts. 

"So he went to a virtual gun-free zone to announce these programs, and one 
of the things that he said he's going to do… is to somehow achieve what he 
calls universal background checks."

Massie said the definitions behind Biden's favored jargon would not have 
prevented any public shooting "in this century," adding that heavily 
Democratic Maryland and New York previously attempted one of the reforms 
set forth in the order — to scant results.

"Maybe [Biden] went to Hollywood because two of his policies are based in 
science fiction," he said. "One of them is this ‘ballistics database’ 
where you're going to take a fingerprint of a gun using the shell casing 
or the bullet. New York and Maryland tried this program. They spent tens 
of millions of dollars and after 15 years, never solved a single crime."

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CONTROVERSY

Massie added that Biden has pledged to seek out "undetectable firearms," 
saying that if a gun does not have a metal barrel or brass casing, it'll 
maim the shooter.

"So two of his policies are just science fiction. Maybe that's why he went 
to Hollywood," he said.

The executive order aims to increase the number of background checks to 
buy guns, promote more secure firearms storage and ensure U.S. law 
enforcement agencies are getting the most out of a bipartisan gun control 
law enacted last summer.

Biden will also direct his Cabinet to make sure law enforcement agencies 
understand the benefits of the new law, particularly around red flag laws, 
which are intended to temporarily remove guns from people with potentially 
violent behavior and prevent them from hurting themselves or others.

Ingraham reported the order empowers bureaucracies as far-flung as the 
Department of Transportation, under Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

Fox News Digital's Bradford Betz contributed to this report.

Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital. 

He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant. 

Charles covers media, politics and breaking news, and has covered the 
annual CPAC conference for Fox News Digital.

Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with 
a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to 
charles.creitz@fox.com.

Comments:

JimAhlstorm
15 March, 2023

The problem is the lack of basic education. Public schools are so bad that 
criminals can't read the words on the "No Gun Zone" signs. The education 
system needs to be scrapped.  But seriously, criminals do not care about 
gun-free zones or laws that ban guns. Gun restrictions merely take guns 
out of the hands of law abiding citizens and empower criminals. The Second 
Amendment is more important than ever.

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