The Dan Bongino Show - The Bongino Brief - March 18, 2023

Episode Date: March 18, 2023

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for your free home safe by March 31st on qualifying purchases. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Message and data rates apply. Dan Bongino. Welcome to the Bongino Brief. I'm Dan Bongino. Folks, the Biden administration and the Democrats have wanted to put you on a gun list forever. Now, there are certain restrictions in federal law that ban the government, the federal government, from keeping a list of gun owners. Now, because there are restrictions on what they can do, doesn't mean the Democrats care. Have the Democrats ever cared about restrictions on government power before?

The answer is, hell no, they haven't, of course. The Democrats say, we want a list. They'll find a way to get you on a list. Now, they want you on a list if you're a gun owner for a reason. Does it mean they're going to raid everyone's house and take your guns? No, because it's, again, it's a strict mathematical equation. There's about, what, 130 plus thousand federal agents out there, millions and millions of gun owners. There's not, what, 130-plus thousand federal agents out there? Millions and millions of gun owners? There's not even enough people. Not to mention a lot of small towns and sheriffs wouldn't even tolerate it.

So why do they want the list? Not that they wouldn't do that. I'm just saying the math isn't likely. The reason they want you on a list is they want the list as a cross-reference tool to go and red flag you. Oh, really? Sounds like something we warned about on the show. Joe Armacost shows up at a MAGA rally with his MAGA hat on.

All of a sudden, they use their facial recognition software. Oh, look, there's Joe Armacost. Gosh, he screamed something about the government I didn't like. Maybe we should open up an intel case on him with the FBI. Sounds like something Kyle Serafin, the FBI agent, who's a whistleblower, told us about. There you go. Told us about their use of, remember that? Intelligence cases rather than criminal cases, because you never know what case was even opened on the intel side. Next thing you know,

there's Armacost, shows up on a list. Oh, look, we cross-referenced him to our gun list. Joe has an AR-15. Be a real shame if we showed up at his house and took that AR-15 back, right? Swindler's list. True. And the swindlers are the government. The government is always looking to put you on a list, and Democrats love the idea of a list. No tyranny has ever survived without a list of subversives.

Epoch Times article, gun owners of America are aghast at potential ATF expansion. Folks, I've been warning you about this forever. Biden yesterday launched this executive order that I promise you the purpose of it was to put you on a list. Here, let's walk through it. It's going to take a second to explain this, but it's not complicated. So the ATF uses a zero tolerance policy, they know, to build an unconstitutional gun registry, this act claims. GAO obtained an internal policy memo, which ATF officials explain how to shut down law abiding gun shops for minor infractions. Now hold that hold, hold William Wallace. Now, why would the ATF be wanting to

shut down gun stores for minor infractions? Well, they don't want them to sell guns, Dan. Yeah, kinda, but that's not the real. Because when a shop closes, all of its sales records for its guns are transferred to the government. Oh, really? GAO claims the ATF has then aggregated these records into a central gun registry to track all firearms, whether they've been used in a crime or not. Wow. Isn't that fascinating? So the ATF already has a de facto list. Shut down the gun store. We'll take your records.

Thank you very much. How many guns did Dan Bogino buy there? Now, what's the problem with this gun registry list, folks? The problem with the gun registry list and what I've been warning you about, about universal background checks for a long time is once Joe buys a firearm from say, whatever, Joey bag of donuts gun shop, right? Joe can sell the firearm, give the firearm to, as long as it's illegal, not, not, not a prohibited possessor. Just say, Joe gives the firearm, the little Joe, you know, little Joe certainly knows how to use firearms. He gives that, listen, I don't want it anymore, Joe. You can have it.

There's nothing illegal about that. So if he gives it to little Joe, right, and the ATF shows up at his house and says, hey, listen, we're here. We saw you at the MAGA rally, and we'd like to see your firearms that you bought. Not that we haven't seen videos of that in the past. Remember that video, Guy, we played in the show? ATF

knocking on the door. Hey, we'd like to see your guns. Not that you haven't seen videos of that in the past. Remember that video, Guy, we played in the show? ATF knocking on the door. Hey, we'd like to see your guns. Not that you haven't seen that before. Joe can legally say and would be correct, I don't have it anymore. I gave it away. Well, who'd you give it? It's none of your business. There's no legal avenue for the ATF.

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Again, text DAN, D-A-N, to 989898. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Message and data rate supply. Thanks, Birch Gold. You see now where the universal background check thing comes in? If Joe's obligated to give the firearm to his son and obligated to check it first and do background checks

through an FFL, Federal Firearms Licensee, when the ATF shows up at his house and Joe says, I don't have the gun anymore, they're going to say, really, where's the record of your background check? Oh, so now we know who you gave it to. It's almost like they want a list and they want to know where the guns are. Now, after Uvalde, the bunch of dumb, dopey, silly Republicans signed on to this new gun law that empowered the ATF

and empowered these red flag laws, which are clearly a violation of due process. A bunch of dopey Republicans signed on. McConnell championed this thing, of course. He was from CNBC, June 2022. Biden signs landmark gun legislation. God willing, it's going to save a lot of lives. No, it won't. It won't save a lot of lives, but I'll tell you what it will do. It will absolutely empower the ATF to create a list of gun owners. Now, here's Biden yesterday. Are you following me, guys?

What the purpose of this universal background check thing is? It has nothing to do with background checks. Listen to me. Criminals don't do background checks. Does anybody know why? Because they're criminals and they won't pass. It's the same reason I don't take an organic chemistry class in college because organic chemistry is not my bag of donuts and I don't

want to fail the final exam. Criminals don't do background checks because they're criminals and they won't pass. How do they know they're criminals, Dan? Because they've been in jail. How do they know they've been in jail? Because it's them. Because it's them. So they know. So you're telling me the only people who pass background checks are people who know they're going to pass the background check. Overwhelmingly, the idea of a universal background check is only to be sure that Joe can never say, I sold the firearm. To who? None of your business. They don't want that. They want to make it their business. Here's Biden yesterday telling you what he's going to do with

universal background checks. Take a listen. First, this executive order helps keep firearms out of dangerous hands as I continue to call on Congress to require background checks for all firearm sales. And in the meantime, in the meantime, my executive order directs my attorney general to take every lawful action possible, possible to move us as close as we can to universal background checks without new legislation. Just once in a while, it'd be really, really good to predict something about the tyrannical Democrats and be wrong about it. It's not hard, folks. This is not some matter of I'm smarter than anyone else out there. A number of conservative commentators called this too.

However, this background check thing I've warned you about forever is only a vehicle to create a gun list. Now, what's the problem with universal background checks? Well, the Democrats, because a lot of the good Republicans, Freedom Caucus folks and others are savvy to what the Democrats are doing in trying to create a list. So it hasn't been able to pass by law. So of course, because Biden doesn't believe in the law and the constitution who passes the laws, all the Congress, right? The president doesn't president doesn't write law. No, the president doesn't do that. But of course the president, you know, he doesn't, this guy, he's a tyrant. I mean, he's a corrupt tyrant.

Obviously the president decided to write his own law through an executive order saying we're going to expand background checks. And I warned when this Uvalde gun bill after the tragedy in Uvalde passed and dumb Republicans signed on to it. I warned you that there was a stipulation in this bill where they categorized almost anyone who sells a firearm as a federal firearms licensee. And therefore, you'd have to register, which would do what, Joe? Create a list. They'd create a list. I warned you about this a long time ago, that they were going to recategorize Joe

selling the gun to his son if Joe made a profit as a federal firearms licensee, meaning he would have to go through a background check and put the kid on a list. And of course, that's exactly what Biden's executive order that he launched yesterday is going to do. He instructed the attorney general to basically categorize everyone as a federal firearms licensee that they can, that earns a profit so you can be put on a list. Here is a show from what?

Eight, nine months ago, about a minute long clip of me warning you exactly about the Uvalde gun bill. And it all came true yesterday. Take a listen. An FFL, a federal firearms licensee, someone licensed to sell firearms, right? Federal firearm licensee. The bill does this dipsy do quick guru quick-a-roo, kind of flip-a-roo end around. Quick-a-roo, flip-a-roo, right?

Section 12-0-0-0-2. It redefines who an FFL is. It redefines by striking with the principal objective of livelihood and profit and inserting to predominantly earn a profit. Really? So you could be declared an FFL with all the licensing requirements if you sell your own guns privately to predominantly earn a profit? That sounds like it could be just about anyone. I think that's the point. So you couldn't get universal background checks.

What's the point of universal background checks? Come on, ladies, fellas, you all know, you listen to the show, you know it better than I do. The point of universal background checks is because Democrats want a list of everyone who has firearms. And if every private sale to a legal gun owner, including you selling or giving your guns to your kids when you die, has to be documented, the Democrats have a list

of everybody who has guns so they can come get them later. That's why they want universal background checks. And it happened yesterday. And stupid, dopey, dumbass Republicans signed on. It's really the stupidity is unfathomable. It really is. What, you trusted the Biden administration after you signed this disastrous gun law? You trusted them to restrict their expansion of the FFL to only legitimate FFLs who may have been skirting the law?

Are you insane? Biden just told you what he wants to do. He told Merrick Garland, the attorney general, to use the law I warned you about nine months ago to make basically everyone an FFL because they couldn't get a background check, universal background check law passed because smart Republicans figured out what was up. Dumb ones signed right on and now gave them a very opaque law to earn a profit by selling guns. That could mean anyone, as I warned you about. And the Biden administration yesterday said, go make it mean anyone. All right, I want to get to the bank thing, but just quickly, another attack on the Second Amendment, too. It's a great piece. It's in my newsletter today, Bongino.com slash newsletter.

Remember, what they can't do legally, the Democrats, they will do illicitly, immorally, and extra-constitutionally. You can't get a background checklist passed? Just make every button an FFL, and you'll have to do a background check. How, by law? No, of course not by law. We'll use an executive order. just make every button an FFL and you'll have to do a background check. How? By law? No, of course not by law. We'll use an executive order. This is what Democrats do. So Democrats who want to take away your guns are also now using public nuisance lawsuits,

suing everyone claiming guns are a public nuisance to basically make it impossible to buy, purchase, own, or sell a firearm anyway. Read this article. They're never going to stop. This is lawfare. That's what this is. Warfare, warfare using the law. They will never stop. That's why I can't encourage you in strong enough terms to get out of states that don't respect your civil liberties. Folks, I get it. I'm going to stay and fight? I totally understand. You do you. I'm just telling you, you're not going to be able to stay and fight when they're taking your money and your right to defend yourself away.

You'll find yourself dead. Get to a state that respects your ability to protect yourself. The Dan Bongino Show. If you'd like to hear more, subscribe to The Dan Bongino Show wherever you get your podcasts.