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The White House retracts Vice President Biden’s call for a ban on the sale of semi-automatic firearms.

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The White House had to issue another correction after President Joe Biden told reporters that he was seeking to ban all semiautomatic weapons.

On Thanksgiving, Biden made the comments while speaking to reporters at a stop in a fire station in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

“The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no, no socially redeeming values,” said Biden.

“Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer,” he added.

The comments inspired a wave of backlash from critics who decried what would be a massive and unprecedented infringement on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

On Monday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre issued a clarification walking back Biden’s comments after reporter Philip Wegmann asked if he made a mistake.

“No, he was talking about assault weapons,” she explained. “That’s what he was talking about on that morning or that afternoon when he was asked that question.”

The latest incident of the White House mopping up after a controversial Biden statement only gave more credence to questions about his mental competency to continue in the Oval Office. The Democrats’ relatively good performance in the midterm elections likely means that Biden will easily garner the presidential nomination for a reelection campaign in 2024.

Democrats could not pass a ban on assault weapons in the last term when they had a slim lead in the Senate, but the task will be almost impossible since Republicans were able to seize control of the House in the midterm elections.

Biden acknowledged the difficulty of passing new gun restrictions in his Thanksgiving statement.

“I’m going to try. I’m going to try to get rid of assault weapons,” said Biden at the time.

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Alexandra Russel
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