President Joe Biden isn’t a fan of the right to keep and bear arms. We’ve known that he doesn’t value your right to own a gun and hasn’t for quite some time. Unless you want to shoot a shotgun through your front door, anyway.

However, during his recent town hall on CNN, Biden commented about the kind of guns he wants to ban.

Dr. John Lott has thoughts on that.

If there was any doubt that President Biden wants to ban the vast majority of guns in the United States, he again clarified his position last week. “The idea you need a weapon that can have the ability to fire 20, 30, 40, 50, 120 shots from that weapon — whether it’s a — whether it’s a 9-millimeter pistol or whether it’s a rifle — is ridiculous,” Biden said at a televised CNN townhall meeting. “I’m continuing to push to eliminate the sale of those things, but I’m not likely to get that done in the near term.”

The president’s gun control proposals will make guns so expensive and difficult to obtain that only the extremely wealthy will be able to afford to own one legally. While the news media assures Americans that Biden just wants “reasonable” regulations, Biden made the scope of his true ambitions clear during the campaign. At a high-dollar private fundraiser in Seattle in 2019 he said: “Why should we allow people to have military-style weapons, including pistols with 9-mm bullets and can hold 10 or more rounds?”

When Republicans pointed out that this goal was tantamount to banning most modern handguns, liberal  PolitiFact quickly came to Biden’s defense.  The fact-checking site did so again last week. “The most popular handguns would face no restrictions under Biden’s policies,” wrote PolitiFact senior correspondent Jon Greenberg. The basis of this conclusion, Greenberg wrote, is that the popular Sig Sauer P365 cannot accommodate more than 10 or 15 rounds. This is untrue. Although that is how the pistol comes from the manufacturer, this gun and virtually all semiautomatics can use bullet magazines that extend well below the pistol grip. The model Greenberg referenced can actually use magazines that hold 20,30, or even50 rounds.

Presumably, PolitiFact believes that Biden’s proposed ban would only apply to guns based on their “standard magazine” size. But Biden himself wasn’t ambiguous. He talked about banning pistols based on their “ability to fire” or that “can hold” so many rounds. When he mentions “military-style weapons including pistols,” the president is talking about the gun themselves. He also wants to ban so-called “assault rifles” regardless of how many rounds their standard magazines hold, and he lumps those guns together with pistols. Over 85% of handguns in the U.S. are semiautomatics and would be banned if Biden has his way.

Precisely. While I saw the video, I didn’t really grasp what Biden was saying at the time. Seeing it in print, however, changes that.

Basically, if Biden has his way, we’re going to be relegated to hunting rifles, shotguns, and revolvers. That’s about it, and while it’s better than nothing, that still interferes with our Second Amendment rights to an insane degree.

Not only that, but it completely ignores Heller, which shouldn’t be surprising since Biden rejects the idea that the Second Amendment is an individual right rather than a collective right.

So no one should be overly surprised that he would want to ban pretty much every weapon you might go to for your self-defense needs. Your AR-15? Gone. Your Glock? Gone.

Seriously, for all the talk of gun rights supporters wanting to turn the country into the Wild West, the truth is that your personal collection would look a lot like it came out of the Wild West. Lever-action rifles, shotguns, and revolvers aplenty, but nothing particularly modern.

If you need a reason to oppose Biden, that should be more than enough.

Of course, this is Joe Biden we’re talking about. He’ll give you plenty.