
Biden says 'ghost gun' crackdown should be 'just the start' on gun control: 'None of this absolves Congress'
Fox News
President Biden has had incremental success at implementing gun control through executive action, rolling out a rule last year to regulate pistol-stablizing braces, directing his Justice Department to target gun traffickers, and announcing a new crackdown on "ghost guns" Monday.
"We need Congress to pass universal background checks," Biden said in the Rose Garden on Monday. "And I know it’s controversial, but I got it done once: Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines."
Biden was referring to the 1994 federal assault weapons ban that Congress passed when he was a senator and expired in 2004. A study conducted that year for the Department of Justice found that the "ban’s impact on gun violence is likely to be small at best, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement."