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Biden defends FBI, promotes ban on assault-style weapons
By CHRIS MEGERIAN and Tuesday to promote his ad-
MARC LEVY ministration's crime-preven-
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) tion efforts and to continue
— President Joe Biden on to pressure Congress to re-
Tuesday forcefully defend- vive a long-expired federal
ed the FBI as the agency ban on assault-style weap-
and its employees have ons. Democrats and Re-
come under withering publicans worked together
criticism and threats of vio- in a rare effort to pass gun
lence since executing a safety legislation earlier this
search warrant at former year after massacres in Buf-
President Donald Trump's falo, New York, and Uval-
Florida residence earlier de, Texas.
this month. They were the first signifi-
"It's sickening to see the cant firearm restrictions
new attacks on the FBI, approved by Congress in
threatening the life of law nearly three decades, but
enforcement and their Biden has repeatedly said
families, for simply carry- more needs to be done.
ing out the law and doing “We beat the NRA. We
their job," Biden said before took them on and beat the
a crowd of more than 500 NRA straight up.
at Wilkes University. "I'm op- You have no idea how
posed to defunding the intimidating they are to Wilkes-Barre Fire Department Chief Jay Delaney and Police Chief Joseph Coffay listen, as Presi-
police; I'm also opposed to elected officials,” an ani- dent Joe Biden speaks at the Arnaud C. Marts Center on the campus of Wilkes University, Tuesday,
defunding the FBI." mated Biden said. Aug. 30, 2022, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. Associated Press
Biden also used his remarks Continued on next page