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July 23, 2022 - The Dan Bongino Show
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The Bongino Brief - July 23, 2022

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Dan Bongino.
Welcome to the Bongino Brief.
I'm Dan Bongino.
The Democrats continue to base plant, humiliate, embarrass themselves, their party, embarrass America, embarrass common sense on the gun issue.
They know nothing about guns, firearms, magazines, which they still call clips.
They are not clips.
They're not clips.
We do not call them clips.
They are magazines.
Clips were actual clips where they would clip rounds in.
These are not clips.
They're magazines.
Democrats don't know.
They don't know what an assault weapon is.
They can never define it.
They don't know what automatic fire even means.
They think it means pew, pew, pew, pew.
That's they don't know anything.
Now, the thing about not knowing anything is when you don't know anything, you're better off not advertising you don't know anything.
Would everybody agree?
If you don't know Jack Squat, the best way to show you don't know Jack Squat is not by saying Jack or Squat.
Not the Dems.
I want to play this video.
This is a classic from yesterday.
This is noted peepee hoaxer, Representative David Cicilline.
Yeah, the peepee tape guy.
Yes, a guy who still believes in Russian collusion.
Again, he's not as dumb as AOC, but getting close.
So here's David Cicilline, and there's a hearing up on Capitol Hill about the Democrats' new proposal to steal away your rifles.
They call it, of course, an assault weapons ban.
It does no such thing.
It just takes your rifles away, right?
So PP Hoaxer Cicilline, he's showing a picture of what is an AR-15 platform-based pistol.
Now, for people who are handicapped to use the AR-15 pistol, what they do is they have an arm brace on it.
And the arm brace, you can kind of velcro and attach to your arm so people who are handicapped can manipulate and use the firearm with one arm.
It's a genius invention, but it's an arm brace.
It's not a stock.
It's an arm brace.
It's clear as day.
Matter of fact, if you... Don't do this.
Don't.
If you go into an FFL and you're a moron, and you say, hey, take this arm brace off and put a stock on there, they'll probably call the cops on you.
Okay?
It's an arm brace.
Cicilline, he's never heard of an arm brace, apparently.
Don't laugh.
Stop.
Cicilline thinks it's a bump stock.
As he's showing the picture of the arm brace, of course, Tom Massey, Republican, you'll hear him after it.
Tom Massey, who knows exactly what he's talking about, has to correct this idiot.
Here, check this out.
I rise in opposition to the amendment.
What this stabilizing brace, which is depicted here, when Attached here, it turns this weapon into an automatic weapon.
This bumps, it becomes a bump stock.
And so it will allow that to essentially be fired like an automatic weapon.
That's the danger.
And so I have to very strongly oppose the amendment.
And I yield back.
Gentleman yields back.
Who seeks recognition?
I seek recognition.
My purpose as a gentleman from Kentucky is to seek recognition.
To strike the last word.
Gentleman is recognized.
The Democrats are so zealous in their rush to ban everything related to guns and every gun that exists that I'm afraid Mr. Cicilline has his gun features mixed up.
He just described the arm brace, which is used by people who have a handicap to help fire a pistol.
He just described it as a bump stock.
It's neither a stock nor a bump stock.
And I think it's important that if you're gonna ban these things that you actually understand what you're banning.
That is the picture that he showed everybody needs to know is not a bump stock.
It's an arm brace for firing a pistol from the wrist.
Not only is it not a bump stock, it's not even a stock.
Folks, again, to be clear, because we do facts on the show, a stock is a triangular, sometimes shaped piece on the back of a rifle, which you would put the butt of in your shoulder to brace it against your shoulder to fire and look down the sight line.
And I'm not trying to be overly verbose about it.
I just, I think you should kind of know what you're talking about before you try to ban something.
A bump stock is a stock that has some play in it that uses the momentum of the firearm after the gas is expelled and the round comes to help you manipulate the trigger faster.
Okay?
It's not, it's neither one of those things.
Guys, is this too much to ask?
If you're gonna ban something, can you at least describe what it is?
Is this hard?
Can you at least tell us what it is first?
This hearing got worse yesterday.
They never know what they're talking about.
Is this really hard?
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Okay, the hearing, of course, got worse from there.
It's really becoming commonplace, and it gives me no joy in telling you this, that the Democrats on the firearm issue just don't even know what they're talking about.
Their data's wrong, they can't get the nomenclature down, they don't even understand the functioning pieces of a firearm, and yet they want to take them away from you.
Here's Jerry Nadler yesterday, again, who doesn't know Jack Squat, and again, Jack left town.
Talking about how in the United States we should emulate the Australia gun confiscation model, where they engaged in a country-wide gun confiscation called a buyback, which is really a confiscation.
But he says, you know, we should do more of what Australia did.
I mean, that worked really well.
Here, check this out.
If we did what they did in Australia, we would not need the law enforcement capability here.
In Australia, after a horrific mass shooting, they required under penalty of criminal law that everyone turn in their assault weapons.
They paid them for it, but it was a crime not to turn in the assault weapons and they collected essentially all the assault weapons in the country.
Jerry Nadler, of course, doesn't know what he's talking about.
Jerry Nadler is operating on the premise that Australia confiscated all the guns and that led to a decrease in what they call mass shootings.
Well, if Jerry Nadler had done research, or David Cicilline had done some basic research, but they're too stupid to do that, they would have seen this article at the Australia Institute or the legions of other articles saying this, Australia, more guns now than before Port Arthur.
Did he miss us?
So I mean, it's really not complicated.
You're making an assertion that's factually inaccurate.
Less guns in Australia equal less mass shootings.
The problem is there aren't less guns.
There are more guns in Australia now.
Now, I gave an interview on this, which is a I know I'm not supposed to call my own self-praised things, but this was a classic.
60 Minutes has an Australia edition.
So they came to my old house in Palm City.
They wanted to do an interview with me because I'm a Second Amendment advocate after the tragedy in Parkland.
They wanted to talk to me about guns, so I reluctantly agreed to it.
Oh boy, and it was a classic.
And let me tell you something, the guy who came over was a nice enough guy, the interviewer, but again, Jerry Nadler doesn't know there's more guns now.
If Jerry Nadler was a smart guy, he'd say, there are more guns in Australia now and less mass shootings, which means more guns equal less mass shootings.
That statement That statement, although not causal but correlational, if he made the correlate, would be accurate.
But he doesn't know that, Nadler, or he's lying.
Either did the 60 Minutes Australia guy, who was off-camera, he was stunned after this interaction I had with him, where he was shocked when I told him the same thing.
He cites Australia as a model.
I was like, hey bro, there's more guns there now than there were before.
He didn't know that either.
Check this out.
The Marjory Stoneman School is just down the road from here.
What do you say to the students there that say that gun control is necessary?
Well, gun control is a myth.
I mean, we've never controlled guns.
Isn't it out of time?
Well, how?
I mean, what evidence does anybody have that gun controls worked anywhere?
Australia?
You have no evidence that gun controls worked in Australia.
There has not been a single mass shooting since the gun buyback.
Okay, so, and I encourage everyone to do all your own homework.
There are more guns now in Australia than before the gun confiscation.
It doesn't work!
You miss, I really wish I had a camera rolling in my house, like a Nest camera or something.
You should have seen what happened after that.
The guy thought I was kidding.
I don't even remember his name.
He thought I was joking.
So I'm, I'm not messing with you.
So I pulled it up on my phone after the interview, sitting on the Island in the kitchen, you know, a little Island thingy there.
And I showed it to him and he couldn't believe it.
His whole, he couldn't cut the interview.
He had the interview.
He had to put it in there, but this is 60 minutes, Australia.
You know, it reminds me of Leslie Stahl, Joe with Donald Trump.
Remember Leslie Stahl with Trump when Trump called out the laptop and she was like, sir, Sir!
This is 60 minutes, sir!
That's what this reminds me of.
This guy, this guy's a nice enough guy.
I'm not going to bash him personally.
He's like, yeah, just doing my job, bro.
Kind of like that.
But to do your job means to do some homework.
You gotta come into an interview as a news outlet, 60 Minutes, and make an assertion about Australia as a model of success, and you don't know that Australia has more guns now.
Now, let me give you the liberal counter-argument right away.
It's not even a counter-argument, they don't even know this, but some are smarter than this guy.
And Jerry Nadler, you know, Nadler's just an idiot.
This guy was just being a curmudgeon.
They'll tell you, well, less people own guns, but there are more guns because the people who own guns bought more.
Which, ladies and gentlemen, is hilarious because it makes our point even stronger.
So the people who are really into guns own a lot more, and the people who just don't care gave them back.
And you think that makes your point?
Only if you're an idiot.
All right.
Something else happened yesterday too.
Um, something else.
I, well, I take that back.
I don't know when this video was exactly recorded, but it made its way around social media.
And we're going to need an answer for this.
This is serious stuff.
And it's an example of why I tell you all the time, you are not wasting your time on this show.
What have I warned you about over and over and over about universal background checks?
What the Democrats call background checks.
If you listen to this show, you've been beaten over the head with this so much, you're spitting it out right now.
The Democrats don't care about background checks.
They want the background check system expanded because they want to create a list so they know who to harass for the guns.
I have warned you about this over and over.
You're not wasting your time here.
Here's what I mean.
A guy's ring doorbell system catches this interaction on video.
It's an ATF agent, according to some of the reports out there.
Knocks on his door, and strangely, doesn't accuse him of a crime, starts asking him about a couple firearms he just bought.
How did they know that?
Oh, the background check system I've been telling you about?
Watch this video.
All I'm doing is verifying that you have it.
You got two different purchases.
If you have them, I'm out of here.
That's how quick it is.
Do you have them with you by any chance?
If you can unload them and bring them out, or you can go out to your foyer here, check them out, by your number, and we're out of here.
Like this?
Yep.
I'd say it'll take five seconds.
The reason we're out here is, we're obviously gun violence, it's been an uptick, so we want to make sure, we've been having a lot of issues with straw purchases, and so one of the things we, indicators that we get is somebody makes a large gun purchase, and then a lot of times we've been there, like, oh those guns got tooken.
We're like, So the idea is when you purchase more than two guns at a time, it generates a multiple sale report.
He comes to us and we have to check him out.
That's all that is.
He did nothing wrong.
Absolutely zero.
I noticed that you were stopped in Philly though, right?
With one of your guns?
I, I, did I?
Joe, you've been with me the longest of anyone.
Have we not been saying this since the basement in Sierrita Park, when we first started doing this?
Yeah.
Folks, gosh, I'm going to vomit right now.
The left doesn't care about background checks.
Yeah, they do, Dan.
They fight for all time.
They don't.
That's not the point.
It's a proxy fight.
The background check is a proxy for a list.
Criminals don't go through background checks.
What are you, an idiot on the left?
Are you idiots?
You think a criminal who goes to buy a firearm to commit a murder is going through a background check?
He buys it on the street, you dunce!
So why would you want a background check knowing it's not going to stop any criminal?
Because you want a list.
Notice what the alleged ATF agent says.
Hey, there's been a gun violence uptick in the area.
We're just checking in.
Listen, all due respect, you got a warrant?
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
No, I'm serious.
Have a good day now.
Respectfully, have a nice day.
Thanks for doing your job or whatever, but I don't do that.
By the way, I don't know why they're taking part in this kind of stuff either.
It's obvious what's going on.
You take an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States that gives that citizen you're knocking on the door the right to bear arms.
The only reason I'm restrained here is I don't know all the full details why they were there.
I don't.
That's why I don't get ahead of my skis.
But if that guy did nothing wrong, and this is just some checkup, I didn't see that in the Constitution, the checkup on the right to bear arms section.
I missed that.
Did you see that, Joe?
I didn't.
No, I didn't see that.
You've looked.
You've looked.
I did.
You've looked.
Okay, you have.
Is that a footnote?
Okay, thank you.
Yeah, just checking.
Now, the great Kerry Pickett at the Washington Times has an amazing piece Which is in my newsletter today.
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You need to read it.
She explains exactly what I've been telling you about why the Democrats want a de facto registry.
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I'm going to get to that.
And then a great video from representative Victoria Spartz.
Uh, she's from Ukraine.
She knows exactly why we have a second amendment and she just lights these idiots on fire on the left.
It's beautiful.
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So here's this piece.
It is a gloriously good piece by Kerry Pickett, who finally someone is writing about what we've been talking about forever.
Maybe it's because I was a federal agent and I know the tricks they try to imbue into people to get them to do stuff.
And I've seen it.
It's one of the reasons I can speak so I don't, I don't want to get my, forget it.
It's self-praised things.
Let's move on.
Washington Times.
GOP lawmaker calls on ATF to explain video of agents asking firearm owners for gun serial numbers.
Thank you.
The rep, hat tip, round of applause for him is Matt Rosendale from Montana.
Good job, Matt.
Yes, deserves a round of applause.
He better start asking questions here.
So this guy Aiden Johnson, who's the Director of Federal Affairs for Gun Owners of America, said that the incident shows how, listen to his words very closely, the federal background check system has been abused and turned into a de facto registry.
You know, I would say it's entirely inappropriate for the government to be checking in on what a law-abiding citizen owns.
You know, what lawfully perched firearms he has purchased.
The background check system has been turned into a de facto registry, allowing the federal government to check up on who owns what firearms because of ATF unlawful actions.
Yes!
Yes, yes, yes!
Those records should be expunged immediately.
You pass the background check, there is no reason anybody should have to keep that.
None.
It is being used as a list.
Now do you understand why they want universal background checks?
I've explained it a thousand times, I'm gonna explain it again before I get to the second screenshot.
If you have a firearm now, and you give it away to a legally able person to own a firearm, like your son or your daughter, you're getting old, you don't want it in the house anymore, When the ATF knocks on your door like they knocked on this guy's door, and they ask for a gun, you don't even have to answer the question.
But if they forced you to or whatever, you'd say, hey, I gave the gun away.
They want universal background checks because what's the follow-up question once they get it?
Uh, really?
We don't have a record of that in the background check.
You're under arrest.
That's why.
That's why.
They want the list.
They want to know where every gun is all the time.
Gosh, I can't believe we gotta keep talking about this.
I wish more people would wake up to this in the moderate side of the GOP.
You guys all get it, ladies.
Here, the second part of the Kerry picket piece.
They released a report, this pro-Second Amendment group, in January, arguing that despite being prohibited by law, they're not allowed to keep a list, the ATF.
That the ATF is maintaining a registry of guns, gun owners, and firearm transactions.
The ATF responded, excuse me, the ATF, the organization said in its report, maintains nearly a billion such records.
The Biden administration's encouraging dealers to supply even more.
The ATF's denying to put out their statement, maintaining a list.
You saw the thing on video!
Folks, this is the reason universal background checks, they want them.
Stop this today.
Criminals don't care about any of this stuff.
All right, let me play.
This is great.
Representative Victoria Sparks, I think I've had her on my Fox show.
She's terrific.
She's from Ukraine.
She's a Republican.
She's up there on Capitol Hill.
And she's like, listen, I'm from Ukraine.
One of the reasons Ukraine is having problems right now is because everybody wasn't initially armed.
There's a history in the United States of the citizenry being armed.
For, you know, to protect against this kind of stuff that's happening right now.
She says it a lot better than I can.
Here, check this out.
This is worth your time.
But I want to speak on behalf of the state of Indiana.
It is a common use weapon to protect.
And as a mother of two daughters and a woman, I truly believe that is infringement of my rights.
And I want to make sure that my children, my great children, And grandchildren and children of my constituents have the same rights to protect them.
And I think we need to remind us what really happened in countries like Ukraine right now, that a lot of people probably would love to have something, you know, to protect themselves.
And we know why we won our war, you know, against kings and queens and became a republic, because our American people had these rights.
If you don't have the rights and you have a police state, or you can have bandits running the show.
And I think that is very dangerous.
This gives me freedom as a woman.
Nice job.
You're darn right.
Good job, Representative Sparks.
The Democrats up on Capitol Hill, totally, completely humiliating themselves yet again on the Second Amendment and the firearm issue.
Embarrassing!
Embarrassing!
Do your homework, you idiots, before you open your mouths!
The Dan Bongino Show.
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