Former Vice President Joe Biden said he wants to take “assault weapons” off the street and, if he is elected president, plans to implement a national gun buy back program.
“So to gun owners out there who say ‘Well, a Biden administration means they will come for my guns’?” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper said.
“Bingo, you’re right if you have an assault weapon,” Biden replied. “The fact of the matter is they should be illegal, period. Look, the Second Amendment doesn’t say you can’t restrict the kinds of weapons people can own.”
“What I would do is try to — I would institute a national buy back program and I would move in the direction of making sure that that, in fact, was what we tried to do, get them off the street,” Biden continued, adding it would not be a door-to-door search through people’s homes.
Biden said rival Sen. Kamala Harris’ idea of taking executive action on guns if Congress does not act within 100 days is flawed because another president after her could simply revoke her order through executive action of their own.
