Biden and Harris Reveal New Gun Control Measures

President Biden and Vice President Harris are planning to unveil new executive measures aimed at regulating 3-D printed guns and devices that can convert handguns into fully automatic firearms.

The initiative includes creating a task force to assess the threats posed by these firearms and develop a plan for detection and prevention within 90 days.

Biden and Harris will “establish an emerging firearm threats taskforce, which will be directed to issue a report within 90 days that includes an assessment of the threats of these guns, the federal agencies’ operational and legal capacities to detect and seize them, an inter-agency plan for combatting them, and what funding the administration needs from Congress to crack down on them,” the White House stated.

The administration also plans to push various government officials to establish best practices for school-based active shooter drills.

The measure also “[directs] the Secretary of Education and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Surgeon General,” to decide on the leading methods for “school-based active shooter drills.”

Both Biden and Harris have previously emphasized the necessity of executive action in addressing gun violence.

“Gun violence is the leading cause of death for young Black men in America. We must stop this. When president, I will take executive action to ensure guns do not fall into the wrong hands,” Harris said in 2019.