President Biden’s gun control advocacy led him to a “virtual gun-free zone” still wracked with violent crime, where he announced his latest executive order, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said Tuesday.
Biden traveled to Monterey Park, Calif., to stump for the directive, which — in his words — will take “every lawful action possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation.”
Massie said Biden chose the Golden State to announce such an order because it is where gun control laws have long failed.
“[California has] got a higher-than-average mass public shooting per capita and they’ve got some of the strictest gun laws,” Massie said. “In fact, he went to Los Angeles County. Unless you’re White and well-connected, you probably can’t get a permit to carry a concealed firearm there. Fewer than 1-in-5,000 have a concealed carry permit in Los Angeles County.”
BIDEN ANNOUNCES EXECUTIVE ORDER TO EXPAND BACKGROUND CHECKS, CALLS ON LAWMAKERS TO GO FURTHER
