MSNBC was in a panic Monday after they discovered that companies in the firearms industry made novelty AR-15 parts featuring the anti-President Biden slogan “Let’s Go Brandon” adoring them. It also proved to be another demonstration of just how little the liberal media understood about firearms and gun laws, as they claimed the parts represented clear and present “threats” to the President. They even ran to the Secret Service to let them know and tried to link the parts to January 6.
“We have some new NBC News exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden,” announced MSNBC Reports fill-in anchor Joe Fryer. “One South Carolina gun dealer going so far as to change the inscription on the safety lever of its AR-15 rifle.”
Never explaining how the marketing of the parts was “dangerous,” Fryer added: “Two other gun manufacturers are advertising AR-15 magazines with ‘Let's go, Brandon’ stickers. That's a code phrase for a swearing insult at President.”
The report was handed off to correspondent and CIA puppet Ken Dilanian who suggested the parts were a sign of how “volatile American politics has become.”
The novelty part in question was this stripped lower receiver from Palmetto State Armory. According to the webpage for the pre-order part, the serial number range would consist of “BRANDON 0000” and the fire selector flipped between “‘F@CK!’ (Safe), ‘JOE!’ (Fire), ‘BIDEN!’ (Full-Auto)’” engravings. They sell for $59.99.
“A South Carolina gun dealer called Palmetto State Armory is selling what is known as a lower receiver, which is essentially the guts of an AR-15 assault rifle, branded ‘LETSGO-15,’” Dilanian said. “And as you said, on the weapon’s fire selector, the expletive we can’t say on television is next to the safety mode, the word Joe is next to the single-shot mode, and the word Biden is next to the automatic firing mode.”
But the horror of novelty AR parts didn’t stop there for Dilanian. “Now, after I got a tip about this, I came across two other companies marketing AR-15 ammunition magazines with ‘Let's go Brandon’ stickers on them,” he reported in all seriousness.
Dilanian was so fearful for Biden, that he “reached out to the Secret Service to see whether they considered this a threat against the President.” But the spokesperson apparently found it so unserious that he “declined to comment.” But he was still proud of his ridiculous question to the agency:
I called to ask the Secret Service whether they consider “F—Joe Biden”emblazoned on an assault rifle to represent a security threat to the president. Which I think is a reasonable question. https://t.co/HfqZfrE7rE
— Ken Dilanian (@KenDilanianNBC) November 1, 2021
The segment concluded with Dilanian trying to tie the parts of January 6: “And really, Joe, the fact that a code phrase for profaning the U.S. president is being used to market guns and ammunition, suggests that the rage on display on January 6 has not subsided, Joe.”
What MSNBC failed to mention was the fact that since lowers are the serialized part of an AR, they needed to be shipped to a federally licensed gun store and required a background check before the part could be handed over to the buyer. This meant that those able to acquire them were law-abiding gun owners.
And just because it had a “full-auto” engraving, didn’t mean it would be utilized that way. For a law-abiding gun owner to own a rifle capable of being fully automatic, they needed a special license from the ATF, which was a long and tedious process. A buyer could get the lower and simply use a normal single-shot trigger mechanism in it, or possibly a binary trigger.
This is just another example of how the liberal media are trying to criminalize dissent and portray those opposed to Biden as violent extremists and terrorists.
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The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
MSNBC Reports
November 1, 2021
3:30:16 p.m. EasternJOE FRYER: We have some new NBC News exclusive reporting on a dangerous way gun dealers are marketing their weapons including violent threats against President Biden. One South Carolina gun dealer going so far as to change the inscription on the safety lever of its AR-15 rifle.
Meanwhile, two other gun manufacturers are advertising AR-15 magazines with "Let's go, Brandon" stickers. That's code phrase for a swearing insult at President.
NBC’s Ken Dilanian is breaking this story. So, Ken, folks may have a lot of questions especially trying to understand what this Brandon thing is. Take us through your reporting.
KEN DILANIAN: This is really the latest example of how volatile American politics has become, Joe. A South Carolina gun dealer called Palmetto State Armory is selling what is known as a lower receiver, which is essentially the guts of an AR-15 assault rifle, branded “LETSGO-15.”
And as you said, on the weapon’s fire selector, the expletive we can’t say on television is next to the safety mode, the word Joe is next to the single shot mode, and the word Biden is next to the automatic firing mode.
Now, after I got a tip about this, I came across two other companies marketing AR-15 ammunition magazines with "Let's go Brandon" stickers on them.
None of the companies have responded to our request for comments. I reached out to the Secret Service to see whether they considered this a threat against the president. But a spokesman declined to comment. So far, we have not heard from the White House.
The phrase "Let's go Brandon" has become a right-wing code for expletive Joe Biden. It originated during a NASCAR last month in Alabama, when a driver named Brandon Brown was being interviewed by a NBC Sports reporter. A nearby crowd was chanting something that was difficult to make out, and the reporter suggested they were chanting, "Let's go Brandon," to cheer the winning driver. But it became increasingly clear they were saying something else, blank Joe Biden.
Now several prominent Republicans have embraced this phrase recently, including members of the House and Senate. And really, Joe, the fact that a code phrase for profaning the U.S. president is being used to market guns and ammunition, suggests that the rage on display on January 6 has not subsided, Joe.
FRYER: Alright, Ken Dilanian with new reporting just out this afternoon.
