In a press briefing on March 29, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre would neither confirm nor deny that President Joe Biden’s proposed “assault weapons” ban could involve gun confiscation.
The comments came two days after a 28-year-old woman shot and killed three children and three adults at The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee, before being shot and killed by police.
Jean-Pierre avoided directly answering a question about whether Biden supported the mandatory confiscation of millions of Americans’ firearms if Congress passes a bill calling for a ban on semiautomatic rifles.
“Does the president support not just banning the sale and the manufacture of semiautomatic weapons, but further than that, confiscation?” a reporter asked….