The Facts Don't Lie: Biden's Actions On Gun Violence Have Made America Safer

Trump and Republicans pretend to support law and order, but it is President Biden who has taken action to reduce crime and keep America safe.

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The Facts On Biden, Crime, And Gun Violence

It is one of the favorite talking points of Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Republican Party. The right claims that America is less safe, but the statistics tell a different story. Crime has plunged under President Biden after seeing a historic rise in violent crime under ex-president Trump.

The shift in the crime numbers isn’t due to luck or happenstance. It is because the Biden administration has taken action through legislation like the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and other partnerships with state and local law enforcement to work to reduce crime.

Biden will announce today that 500 people have been charged with violating the provisions in the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act against gun trafficking and strawman gun purchases.

According to the White House as provided to The Daily, here are some other steps that the Biden administration has taken on illegal purchases of guns and gun violence:

• Gun Trafficking Law Enforcement:  In 2021, the Justice Department launched five new law enforcement strike forces focused on addressing significant firearms trafficking corridors that have diverted guns to New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Washington, D.C. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act also enacted the first ever federal gun trafficking law and federal straw purchasing law. These new provisions created by BSCA have been used to charge more than 500 defendants.  

• Cracking Down on Rogue Gun Dealers:  The Justice Department enacted a new policy to maximize the efficacy of ATF resources to crack down on rogue gun dealers violating our laws and underscored zero tolerance for willful violations of the law by federally licensed firearms dealers that put public safety at risk. The new ATF inspection policies have led to 245 license revocations over the past two years.

• Stopping Gun Manufacturers Illegally Selling Ghost Guns:  The Justice Department issued a final rule to rein in the proliferation of ghost guns, which are unserialized, privately made firearms that are increasingly being recovered at crime scenes. According to ATF, the recovery of ghost guns by law enforcement increased 1,083 percent between 2017 and 2021.

Most recently, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a new rule that will save lives by reducing the number of firearms sold without background checks. This final rule implements the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act’s expansion of firearm background checks—the most significant expansion of the background check requirement since then-Senator Biden helped shepherd the Brady Bill over the finish line in 1993.

Gun violence, not the border, has been America’s real unchecked deadly crisis, but only Biden has done something about it.