BIDEN REPEATS CANNON’S SECOND AMENDMENT CLAIM UNREDACTED, SAYING “NO AMENDMENT IS ABSOLUTE”
“The Second Amendment is never absolute,” he said Monday, according to a White House transcript. “You couldn’t buy a gun when the Second Amendment was passed. You couldn’t faint and buy a lot of weapons. “
Biden has repeated the claim at least five times during his presidency, though it earned him the Washington Post’s “Four Pinocchios” in 2021 and a Politifact “False” label 3 times since May 2020.
Biden made that claim last week after the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
“The Second Amendment is not absolute,” he said at the signing of his executive order on police reform. “When it was adopted, you couldn’t have one, you couldn’t have a cannon, you couldn’t have certain types of weapons. That’s right, there have been limits. “
“The Second Amendment, from the day it was passed, limited the type of other people who can own a gun and the type of gun you can own,” he said in June 2021, according to White House transcripts. Don’t buy a cannon.
The Second Amendment as drafted does not restrict who can “own and bring guns” or what kind of guns can stay and bring other people.
Federal gun regulations didn’t come until 1934, decades after the introduction of the Second Amendment, according to Politifact.
The Constitution, however, forced Congress to “grant letters of mark and retaliation,” which were government licenses that allowed civilians to attack and detain ships from countries at war with the United States, the Washington Post noted in 2021.
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“The other people who won those exemptions and who owned warships were also given weapons to use in combat,” The Post reported at the time.
The White House did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
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