GOA Warns Executive Action for Universal Background Checks Coming

Gun Owners of America (GOA) sounded the alarm Tuesday with a warning the Biden Administration is planning executive action to put universal background checks in place.

GOA’s warning came the same day Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called on the Biden Administration to act under the auspices of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to “issue and [make] effective” more regulations on gun sales.

Breitbart News noted Blumenthal’s push for executive action on gun control, pointing out that it would entail a change in the definition of who/what constitutes a gun dealer.

This change in definition would be made in light of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, an act which Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) brokered with Democrats, and would usher in a broadened requirement for background checks on gun sales.

In a press release sent to Breitbart News, GOA noted they already plan a lawsuit against the executive action for universal background checks, but they explained that Congress must act as well:

While Gun Owners of America fights for the Second Amendment in the courts, Congress must repeal the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act—which was a compromise with the Biden Administration that Republicans NEVER should have struck. It has been completely weaponized, gun owners have gained nothing, and America is no safer. Cornyn-Murphy has got to go, and Republicans must expiate for this sin.

Congress must also participate in the rulemaking process and voice its opposition to backdoor universal background registration checks during the public notice and comment period alongside GOA members. After commenting during the proposed rule phase, Congress must also take up a joint resolution of disapproval pursuant to the Congressional Review Act and strike down this unconstitutional infringement.

Universal backgrounds have long been pursued by Democrats, and that is because such checks are insidious; they lead to other gun controls.

Specifically speaking, universal background checks lead to a gun registry, as they are not enforceable without such a registry.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio and a Turning Point USA Ambassador. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010, a speaker at the 2023 Western Conservative Summit, and he holds a Ph.D. in Military History, with a focus on the Vietnam War (brown water navy), U.S. Navy since Inception, the Civil War, and Early Modern Europe. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.