US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, Apr 11U.S. President Joe Biden announced a ban on DIY kits without serial numbers. As Biden said at the White House, the gun lobby calls this measure excessive, but the administration does not think such a characterization applies to the intention to end the possibility of buying a kit without verifying the buyer. «Losses are incalculable,» Biden said of the victims of armed violence. He demonstrated a kit from which in half an hour, without any preparation, you can assemble a gun in the kitchen. Biden noted that the steps to ban the purchase of weapons by citizens who, for example, are listed as members of terrorist organizations, are not excessive. «If you committed a crime using a» ghost gun, «expect federal charges,» Biden said. The President of the United States insists on the need for Congress to pass a law on the verification of buyers, as well as to ban the sale of rifles with an increased magazine capacity. He stressed that manufacturers should not be immune from lawsuits when crimes are committed with their weapons. At the moment, a kit for self-assembly of a pistol, such as the Glock brand, is offered by many online sellers for a few hundred dollars, a federal weapons license is not required to purchase. thousands of unregistered weapons. Biden's long-promised initiative bans the production and sale of kits from which a buyer, spared the need to go through standard security checks, can assemble a finished firearm without serial numbers at home within half an hour. Sellers of such kits will also need to obtain a federal license. They are required to conduct pre-sale checks on buyers.The shooting took place in a nightclub in American Iowa, there are dead Earlier in January, the White House announced the administration's steps to reduce the level of armed violence: only those who have a place to store weapons will be licensed. The Ministry of Justice then recalled that, according to the requirements, it is considered a violation to provide false information when purchasing weapons, to remain silent about the discovery of stolen or lost weapons, to neglect the seller to check the necessary documents and records of crimes before transferring weapons, to sell or transfer into the hands of a person who is prohibited from possession, in including a non-resident, and the presence of a secure place to store weapons had to be confirmed by a federal license. Biden said that there was an «epidemic of armed violence» in the United States, commenting on another case of mass execution in May 2021. In total, in the United States, there were 717 cases of mass shootings when more than 4 people were injured or killed in 2021 — this figure is given by the Gun Violence Archive portal, which collects statistics on incidents with the use of firearms. This is the largest number of mass shootings in recent years. In 2020, observers recorded 611 such incidents, a year earlier — 417, in 2018 — 336. According to data for 2014-2017, the number of incidents ranged from 272 to 382 per year. In total, according to the same data, the number of deaths as a result of armed attacks in 2022 has already exceeded 5 thousand, which is approximately 50 deaths per day. Not so long ago, it was reported about a 12-year-old American who shot a peer on the threshold of a school.
