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Joe Biden: “But I'm not going to exercise executive authority where it's question, where I can come along and say, I can do away…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2020
But I'm not going to exercise executive authority where it's question, where I can come along and say, I can do away with assault weapons. There's no executive authority to do that. And no one has fought harder to get rid of assault weapons than me, me.
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Joe Biden
Democratic · Delaware
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msnbc.com

Editor's note · Context

Biden emphasizes the constitutional limits of executive power regarding gun control.

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