President Joe Biden tried to justify his newest gun control pledge with the justification that Americans don’t have the weapons they would need to “take on the government” anyway.

“Those who say the blood of Patriots, you know, and all the stuff about how we’re gonna have to move against the government,” Biden said during a Wednesday press conference. “If you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.”

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Gun stores across the country are experiencing a shortage.

With a lot going on at once such as a global pandemic, an election year and civil unrest in a few cities across the country — that has some people stocking up on bullets.

Gun shop owners like Josh South, president of South’s Outpost in Spanish Fort, are seeing a demand for ammunition but the supply is the issue.

South says COVID-19 has greatly impacted how manufacturers get the basic components needed to make ammo like copper and other metals. He adds his shop has more than four million rounds on back order.

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Released July 21, the draft platform contains the following passage:

Democrats will enact universal background checks, end online sales of guns and ammunition, close dangerous loopholes that currently allow stalkers and some individuals convicted of assault or battery to buy and possess firearms, and adequately fund the federal background check system. We will close the “Charleston loophole” and prevent individuals who have been convicted of hate crimes from possessing firearms. Democrats will ban the manufacture and sale of assault weapons and high capacity magazines. We will incentivize states to enact licensing requirements for owning firearms and “red flag” laws that allow courts to temporarily remove guns from the possession of those who are a danger to themselves or others. We will pass legislation requiring that guns be safely stored in homes. And Democrats believe that gun companies should be held responsible for their products, just like any other business, and will prioritize repealing the law that shields gun manufacturers from civil liability.

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In July 2020, the FBI conducted more than 3.6 million firearm background checks, making it the third highest month on record for checks since the bureau began keeping statistics in 1998, according to new data released on Monday by the agency. By comparison, the bureau conducted just over 2 million checks in July 2019.

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But then the pandemic hit. And on Friday, March 13, when President Trump declared a national emergency, the number of background checks went through the roof, according to the FBI system that vets gun buyers.

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Kinzinger, who wrote a piece following the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso supporting “red-flag” laws, said there is an inherent danger of political overshoot that could create a stream of unintended consequences, but claimed it would be better than doing nothing.

“It is unfair that you would deny somebody a right by putting a restriction in place because… I own an AR. 99.99 percent of us are responsible with these guns. But as a society, we can’t predict individual behavior,” he said on “The Daily Briefing,” Wednesday.

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