National 2nd Amendment Task Force

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Attorney General Pamela Bondi Statement Regarding Creation of a 2nd Amendment Task Force

Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement regarding her creation of a 2nd Amendment Task Force at the Department of Justice:

www.justice.gov

"The prior administration placed an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights. The Department of Justice's new 2nd​ Amendment Task Force will combine department-wide policy and litigation resources to advance President Trump's pro-gun agenda and protect gun owners from overreach."

Full version:

https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1395956/dl?inline

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[1775usmc]

We will see.

She was pro red flag laws as DA in Florida.

I may be a bit skeptical.

 

[MTpockets]

It appears that they are poking around in the area of Policy and Rules...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced today the repeal of the Enhanced Regulatory Enforcement Policy and the review of Final Rule 2021R-08F, related to stabilizing braces, and Final Rule 2022R-17F, related to the...

www.atf.gov

... and hopefully they will proceed (past the appearances) to reaffirm, through action and word, the intent and the importance of the Second Amendment to the the United States Constitution.

 

[1911Fanatic]

Well, this sound like a good first step.

 

[Mopar82]

Bag everything to be constitutionally just target mental behavior and other things over gun control. Every citizen should own a gun to protect America it's our responsibility! Our forefathers said this like you're Grandpa did too!

 

[UncleSlayton]

"This task force will continue the Department's ongoing work to implement Executive Order 14206 and protect the fundamental right secured by the Second Amendment."

From EO 14206 §2bi: "All Presidential and agencies' actions from January 2021 through January 2025 that purport to promote safety but may have impinged on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens"

Notice that EO 14206 does not include laws/EOs that happened during his first term (e.g., bumpstocks).

That task force statement is a bunch of hot air about them planning to plan.

 

[CamoDeafie]

"This task force will continue the Department's ongoing work to implement Executive Order 14206 and protect the fundamental right secured by the Second Amendment."

From EO 14206 §2bi: "All Presidential and agencies' actions from January 2021 through January 2025 that purport to promote safety but may have impinged on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens"

Notice that EO 14206 does not include laws/EOs that happened during his first term (e.g., bumpstocks).

That task force statement is a bunch of hot air about them planning to plan.

It also doesn't include EOs, laws, regulations or interpretations going all the way back to the NFA 1934

 

[UncleSlayton]

It also doesn't include EOs, laws, regulations or interpretations going all the way back to the NFA 1934

Yes, very true. I was pointing out the most hypocritical part.

 

[mhayd93]

"This task force will continue the Department's ongoing work to implement Executive Order 14206 and protect the fundamental right secured by the Second Amendment."

From EO 14206 §2bi: "All Presidential and agencies' actions from January 2021 through January 2025 that purport to promote safety but may have impinged on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens"

Notice that EO 14206 does not include laws/EOs that happened during his first term (e.g., bumpstocks).

That task force statement is a bunch of hot air about them planning to plan.

I think you put the cart before the horse…

NRA-ILA | Trump DOJ Settles Lawsuits Involving Forced Reset Triggers

On Friday, May 16, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of several lawsuits arising from the Biden-Harris regime’s attempt to reclassify forced reset triggers (FRTs) as “machineguns.” DOJ’s announcement cited President Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Second Amendment...

www.nraila.org

Also, the bump stock ban was reversed last year, so why would his task force waste time addressing it?

 

[ilikegunspdx]

I hope they can get stuff done that lasts. So if the other party gets in they can't easily reverse everything.

 

[CamoDeafie]

I hope they can get stuff done that lasts. So if the other part gets in they can't easily reverse everything.

Easiest would be to repeal NFA and Hughes Amendment, and hardest part, add a permanent amendment in the Constitution to declare that 2A is unlimited and that it covers everything from sticks to NBC weapons

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Easiest would be to repeal NFA and Hughes Amendment, and hardest part, add a permanent amendment in the Constitution to declare that 2A is unlimited and that it covers everything from sticks to NBC weapons

Personally I don't think any of those things will happen. It's too big of a reach imo.

I'm hoping for them to get lasting scotus ruling on things like ocean state (mag ban) and Snopes (AW ban).

Also defund and dismantle institutions which are doing little on real crime but harming gun owner's rights.

Also put in permanent prohibitions for ATF and other fed agencies for things they cannot do. They can limit federal agencies role and power with no input from Congress because it's all in executive branch.

They are a doing a great job in diminishing ATFs role (moving tons of stuff to illegal immigrant enforcement) so far. And they stopped fighting rare breed. Those are excellent signs.

 

[wired]

Will you look at that.

ATF Launches New Era of Reform | Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is ushering in a new chapter—marked by transparency, accountability, and partnership with the firearms industry. This is not the same ATF of the last four years. We are fundamentally changing course with a renewed focus on rebuilding...

www.atf.gov

 

[CamoDeafie]

We'll see if they reverse course under the next D administration, whenever that happens

Personally I still believe abolishing the ATF and repealing NFA/Hughes Amendment and ideally GCA as well would be in the best interest of the People. But that won't happen at least in my lifetime.

 

[Will_White]

I think you put the cart before the horse…

NRA-ILA | Trump DOJ Settles Lawsuits Involving Forced Reset Triggers

On Friday, May 16, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the settlement of several lawsuits arising from the Biden-Harris regime’s attempt to reclassify forced reset triggers (FRTs) as “machineguns.” DOJ’s announcement cited President Trump’s Executive Order Protecting Second Amendment...

www.nraila.org

Also, the bump stock ban was reversed last year, so why would his task force waste time addressing it?

that's not the win you think it is.

View: https://youtu.be/5CbT-UjnhCI?si=UaJ6vvnDxGWFXQGM

 

[mhayd93]

that's not the win you think it is.

View: https://youtu.be/5CbT-UjnhCI?si=UaJ6vvnDxGWFXQGM

I read all the finer details already and am fully aware of the limitations to the ruling.

However, this is not legislation, but rather the settlement of a court case that specifically revolved around Rarebreed's FRT. As such, the settlement could only reach so far.

Even small victories should be acknowledged (much like it is the accumulation of small victories that the anti-2A side has used to great success).

Of course, you seem to have already been predisposed to think that the 2A task force would accomplish nothing, so they could probably undo the NFA and you'd still probably find a way to discredit it…

 

[wired]

I read all the finer details already and am fully aware of the limitations to the ruling.

However, this is not legislation, but rather the settlement of a court case that specifically revolved around Rarebreed's FRT. As such, the settlement could only reach so far.

Even small victories should be acknowledged (much like it is the accumulation of small victories that the anti-2A side has used to great success).

Of course, you seem to have already been predisposed to think that the 2A task force would accomplish nothing, so they could probably undo the NFA and you'd still probably find a way to discredit it…

We stand on the edge of silencers possibly becoming the same status as title 1 firearms and I dare say maybe even unregulated. I doubt the unregulated part going to happen but the House just passed a rider to the budget bill that would take them out of the NFA. Now onto the Senate to screw that up. On the West Coast you see through the eyes of people under siege but thats your state government at work. In the rest of the country the gun grabbers are dying hard deaths.

 

[Will_White]

I read all the finer details already and am fully aware of the limitations to the ruling.

However, this is not legislation, but rather the settlement of a court case that specifically revolved around Rarebreed's FRT. As such, the settlement could only reach so far.

Even small victories should be acknowledged (much like it is the accumulation of small victories that the anti-2A side has used to great success).

Of course, you seem to have already been predisposed to think that the 2A task force would accomplish nothing, so they could probably undo the NFA and you'd still probably find a way to discredit it…

its a victory for rare breed but its not a victory for the 2A as a whole. The actual victory would have been if they appealed it to the Supreme Court and argued that it was unconstitutional so it would be actual binding precedent not a deal until the next administration ignores it.

If the 2A taskforce did something, rather then just stopping the infringing the ATF was doing from last Admin, I would praise it, as I do the representatives that got Suppressors removed in the house. They haven't done that yet. I'm hopeful they can do something but I'm not holding my breath.

Without dismantling the NFA unconstitutionally (yes the NFA is unconstitutional but the Executive branch doesn't, and shouldn't, have the power to get rid of it) they could open up machine gun and NFA amnesties to flood the market with transferable machine guns and SBRs.