Joe Biden Is Hesitant About a Day One Assault Weapons Ban Executive Order

Biden gave just one example of how he’d exercise restraint, saying he would resist a suggestion that he “do away with assault weapons.” Said the president-elect, “No one has fought harder to get rid of assault weapons than me, me, but you can’t do it by executive order. We do that, next guy comes along and says, Well, guess what? By executive order, I guess everybody can have machine guns again. So we gotta be careful.”

— David Dayen in Joe Biden Is Unhappy About the Day One Agenda