Vice President Kamala Harris made a seven-word demand over the weekend that could lead to the exact opposite of what she wants should she become the next occupant of The White House. She posted on social media, “Congress must renew the assault weapons ban.”
It’s not surprising. Banning Modern Sporting Rifles (MSRs), or AR-15-style semiautomatic rifles, is the “white whale” of gun control activists. That’s despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) showed the expired 1994 ban didn’t reduce crime and more Americans lawfully own an MSR today than ever before. The Biden-Harris administration can only thank themselves for that distinction.
Now the presumptive Democratic nominee to be president, a few of Vice President Harris’s close allies and some of gun control’s loudest voices in Congress are the ones that have made a ban on MSRs likely less attainable. That includes recent congressional hearing comments from U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.).
Unintended Recognition
When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Heller decision in 2008, the Court stated that that entire classes of commonly-owned firearms cannot be banned from legal sale and possession by law-abiding citizens. In the 5-4 decision, the Court held, “Private citizens have the right under the Second Amendment to possess an ordinary type of weapon and use it for lawful, historically established situations such as self-defense in a home, even when there is no relationship to a local militia.”
“Commonly owned,” “typically possessed” and “ordinary” are key words here. Gun control activists love to claim MSRs are “weapons of war.” “No one needs an AR-15 to hunt deer,” the President Joe Biden loves to claim. But NSSF industry reporting shows law-abiding Americans continue to ignore the hyperbole, opting instead to purchase MSRs in record numbers, especially over the past four years. Today, there are over 28.1 million of these rifles in circulation. They are the most popular selling centerfire rifle in America and more common than Ford F-150s on the road today (the most popular selling pickup truck in America). The idea of banning these semiautomatic rifles doesn’t pass the sniff test, much less Constitutional muster. But Rep. Ocasio-Cortez hasn’t read that memo.
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