Joe Biden offered celebratory remarks on the recent signing into law of an aggressively anti-Second Amendment, unconstitutional Gun control bill. The Safer Communities Act (S. 2938) was sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fl) and passed with a vote of 64-34. It was signed into law by Biden in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on June 25.
” I understand public law can appear remote, technical and distant from our daily lives,” Biden said in his remarks. “But due to the fact that of your work, your advocacy, your nerve lives will be saved today.”
S. 2938 was passed in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and a racially-motivated shooting occasion at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York.
“What we’re doing here today is real. It’s vibrant, it matters. The action we take today is an action developed to make our country the kind country we need to be,” Biden stated. “It’s about the most basic of things. The lives of our kids, of our enjoyed ones.”
The legislation broadens background searches for any gun purchasers under the age of 21 to include juvenile records. It also broadens time for the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) background check from 3 to 10 business days.
It likewise expands the ability to reject a purchaser a weapon due to particular materials that might exist in psychological health records.
“For 30 years, our nation has stopped working to pass significant weapon violence legislation again and again, the American people have required good sense action to secure our communities,” said Vice-President Kamala Harris in opening remarks before Biden took the podium. “Last month, their call was lastly answered when president Joe Biden signed the bipartisan more secure neighborhoods act.”
Red Flag laws are likewise expanded under the new law, which critics argue strips individuals of their home rights without due process. Advocates believe that, even without due procedure, confiscating an individual’s guns through “crisis intervention” might conserve lives.
The expense is also a financial windfall for agencies related to firearm investigations and advocacy.
Among other allocations, it provides:
- $100 million to the National Immediate Criminal Background Inspect System (NICS)
- $1.4 billion for Workplace of Justice Program grants
- $1 billion to the U.S. Department of Education for activities related to supporting safe and healthy trainees, including psychological health, security, and violence prevention
- $750 million for crisis intervention programs
- $200 million for STOP School Violence grants
- $200 million for states to upgrade their criminal and mental health records and upload those records to NICS
H/T Timcast
