White House walks back Biden statement calling for ban on semi-automatic weapon sales

The White House had to issue another correction after President Joe Biden told reporters that he was seeking to ban all semi-automatic weapons.

Biden made the comments while speaking to reporters at a stop in a fire station in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on Thanksgiving.

"The idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no, no social redeeming values," said Biden.

"Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturer," he added.

The comments inspired a wave of backlash from critics who decried what would be a massive and unprecedented infringement on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.