StraitR
07-23-2020, 11:54 PM
Below are just the section titles and bullet points. If you haven't read it yet, pull up a chair, it's ugly.
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
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- Hold gun manufacturers accountable.
- Get weapons of war off our streets.
- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
- Regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act.
- Buy back the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines already in our communities.
- Reduce stockpiling of weapons.
- Keep guns out of dangerous hands.
- Require background checks for all gun sales.
- Close other loopholes in the federal background check system.
- Reinstate the Obama-Biden policy to keep guns out of the hands of certain people unable to manage their affairs for mental reasons, which President Trump reversed.
- Close the “hate crime loophole.”
- Close the “Charleston loophole.”
- Close the “fugitive from justice” loophole created by the Trump Administration.
- End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions.
- Create an effective program to ensure individuals who become prohibited from possessing firearms relinquish their weapons.
- Incentivize state “extreme risk” laws.
- Give states incentives to set up gun licensing programs.
- Adequately fund the background check system.
- Establish a new Task Force on Online Harassment and Abuse to focus on the connection between mass shootings, online harassment, extremism, and violence against women.
- Expand the use of evidence-based lethality assessments by law enforcement in cases of domestic violence.
- Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns.
- Hold adults accountable for giving minors access to firearms.
- Prioritize prosecution of straw purchasers.
- Notify law enforcement when a potential firearms purchaser fails a background check.
- Require firearms owners to report if their weapon is lost or stolen.
- Stop “ghost guns.”
- Reform, fund, and empower the U.S. Justice Department to enforce our gun laws.
- Direct the ATF to issue an annual report (https://giffords.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Addressing-Gun-Violence-in-America%E2%80%94Policy-Solutions-and-Ideas-to-Build-a-Safer-Future-in-2020%E2%80%94Giffords.pdf) on firearms trafficking.
- Require gun owners to safely store their weapons.
- Dedicate the brightest scientific minds to solving the gun violence public health epidemic.
- Prohibit the use of federal funds to arm or train educators to discharge firearms.
- Address the epidemic of suicides by firearms.
- Make federal programs more trauma-informed.
- Create a network of trauma care centers.
- Train health care and other service providers in trauma-centered care.
https://joebiden.com/gunsafety/
************************************************** *****************
- Hold gun manufacturers accountable.
- Get weapons of war off our streets.
- Ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
- Regulate possession of existing assault weapons under the National Firearms Act.
- Buy back the assault weapons and high-capacity magazines already in our communities.
- Reduce stockpiling of weapons.
- Keep guns out of dangerous hands.
- Require background checks for all gun sales.
- Close other loopholes in the federal background check system.
- Reinstate the Obama-Biden policy to keep guns out of the hands of certain people unable to manage their affairs for mental reasons, which President Trump reversed.
- Close the “hate crime loophole.”
- Close the “Charleston loophole.”
- Close the “fugitive from justice” loophole created by the Trump Administration.
- End the online sale of firearms and ammunitions.
- Create an effective program to ensure individuals who become prohibited from possessing firearms relinquish their weapons.
- Incentivize state “extreme risk” laws.
- Give states incentives to set up gun licensing programs.
- Adequately fund the background check system.
- Establish a new Task Force on Online Harassment and Abuse to focus on the connection between mass shootings, online harassment, extremism, and violence against women.
- Expand the use of evidence-based lethality assessments by law enforcement in cases of domestic violence.
- Put America on the path to ensuring that 100% of firearms sold in America are smart guns.
- Hold adults accountable for giving minors access to firearms.
- Prioritize prosecution of straw purchasers.
- Notify law enforcement when a potential firearms purchaser fails a background check.
- Require firearms owners to report if their weapon is lost or stolen.
- Stop “ghost guns.”
- Reform, fund, and empower the U.S. Justice Department to enforce our gun laws.
- Direct the ATF to issue an annual report (https://giffords.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Addressing-Gun-Violence-in-America%E2%80%94Policy-Solutions-and-Ideas-to-Build-a-Safer-Future-in-2020%E2%80%94Giffords.pdf) on firearms trafficking.
- Require gun owners to safely store their weapons.
- Dedicate the brightest scientific minds to solving the gun violence public health epidemic.
- Prohibit the use of federal funds to arm or train educators to discharge firearms.
- Address the epidemic of suicides by firearms.
- Make federal programs more trauma-informed.
- Create a network of trauma care centers.
- Train health care and other service providers in trauma-centered care.