Long overdue action on Trump’s Second Amendment executive order begins

DOGE enters US ATF with mandate to slash gun regulations, Washington Post reports (Reuters)

Protecting Second Amendment Rights

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

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The executive order was issued on February 7, 2025 about 2½ weeks after Trump took office for his second term as President.

The Attorney General’s office was given thirty days to propose a plan of action to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.

No official response from the Attorney General was made public, although a meeting did take place between Pam Bondi and President Trump at the expiration of the thirty days, which was broadcast on television. Nothing very substantive was said publicly at that meeting.

Meanwhile the police unions and the Brady Group as well as other collective bargaining organizations are screaming bloody murder at the prospect of various classes of Prohibited Persons or persons previously thought to be Prohibited under one or more of various federal categories adjudicated in state courts might obtain access to firearms without representation of the police unions and the Chicago Outfit.