Joe Biden has reiterated his demand that assault rifles—including the one used in the botched attempt to kill Donald Trump—be banned by Congress.

During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, a gunman fired shots at Trump from a nearby rooftop, grazing his ear.

The weapon used to shoot Donald Trump was an AR-15. This assault weapon claimed the lives of numerous people, including minors. "It's time to make them illegal," Mr. Biden declared to the attendees of a Las Vegas convention.

As he made his first appearance on the campaign trail after the attack, he made this demand.

After the shooting, the Biden campaign had been put on hold for a few days. Television commercials had been dropped, verbal attacks had stopped, and some well-known Democrats had promoted togetherness.

In keeping with that theme, Mr. Biden bemoaned the "heated" nature of politics in his speech on Tuesday. However, he continued to harshly criticize Trump during his speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) convention, a well-known civil rights organization.

Our politics may be deeply divided, but that doesn't mean we should stop speaking the truth. It's fair game to say who you are, what you've done, and what you plan to do, he declared.

"Let me say it again because Trump is lying like hell about it," he declared to the mostly black voters gathered in the conference hall.

The president said, "Under the Biden-Harris administration, Black unemployment hit a record low." According to statistics, his government's record-low 4.8% unemployment rate for Black or African American workers was attained in 2023.

Mr. Biden has made gun rights a major campaign platform.

He had a key role in the 1994 passage of the assault weapons ban, which came to an end in 2004. Speaking about that legislation, he said, "I've done it before, I'll do it again" in his address.

The most important gun safety laws in almost 20 years were put into effect by President Biden in 2022 during his first term in office. These laws included stronger background checks for gun purchases as well as other precautions.

However, Republicans have consistently opposed his attempts to outlaw assault rifles.

The president returned to the campaign trail on Tuesday as the Republican National Convention (RNC) wrapped up its second day. Speakers, including opponents Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis, who had previously run for president, overwhelmingly supported Trump.

A senior campaign adviser for Donald Trump stated that if won in November, he would protect gun rights by nominating pro-gun judges during a side event organized by the gun rights organization US Concealed Carry Association.

Chris LaCivita said to the audience, "We'll see a continuation of supporting and defending the Second Amendment, and really where that comes into play is the judiciary," according to the Reuters news agency.

Even after Saturday's attempted assassination attempt on Mr. Biden's life, Donald Trump has stated that, should he be elected in November, he would repeal all of the new gun laws.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman, was able to shoot at Trump after scaling a structure to a height of 130 meters (426 feet), although authorities are still unsure of his motivation.

In addition to Republican leaders in Congress announcing a probe, an independent examination of the Secret Service's handling of the incident is currently in progress.