Attorney General Pam Bondi announced Wednesday the formation of a new Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force under the direction of President Donald Trump.
The move comes in response to an executive order issued earlier this year instructing the Department of Justice to audit federal agencies for policies that may infringe on the constitutional rights of gun owners.
The task force will focus on identifying and challenging any executive branch policies that may unlawfully restrict the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi released the following statement regarding her creation of a 2nd Amendment Task Force at the Department of Justice
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In a press release, Bondi stated that previous administrations had implemented measures that placed “an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights.”
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The new initiative is designed to advance President Trump’s pro-Second Amendment agenda and ensure that federal agencies remain compliant with constitutional standards.
Bondi said, “The task force will combine department-wide policy and litigation resources to advance President Trump’s pro-gun agenda and protect gun owners from overreach.”
In a department-wide memo, Bondi emphasized the administration’s position on Second Amendment protections.
“For too long, the Second Amendment … has been treated as a second-class right,” she wrote.
“It is the policy of this Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
The initiative stems from Executive Order 14206, titled “Protecting Second Amendment Rights,” issued by President Trump.
The order outlines a plan to safeguard gun rights and directs the attorney general to implement measures to ensure protection of these rights across all federal departments.
“President Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration,” Bondi noted in the memo.
“As he explained, ‘[t]he Second Amendment is an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty,’ because it ‘is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans.’ Executive Order 14206 § 1 (Protecting Second Amendment Rights).”
Bondi added, “As one element of a comprehensive plan of action that I am proposing to the President, I am hereby creating a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force. 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. The Task Force is principally charged with developing and executing strategies to use litigation and policy to advance, protect, and promote compliance with the Second Amendment.”
The Department of Justice also announced Monday that it had repealed a Biden-era “zero tolerance” policy that had targeted licensed firearms dealers for minor clerical errors.
The now-revoked policy had resulted in license revocations for gun sellers over issues such as paperwork mistakes, prompting legal challenges from members of the firearms industry.
Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works, previously sued the Justice Department over the ATF’s bump stock ban. Following a court ruling in his favor, he told Townhall that the decision had broader implications.
“After the Cargill ruling, SCOTUS clarified that the ATF couldn’t create or write a law, so the Trump administration had no choice but to take a slightly different approach and repeal everything if they wanted to be pro 2A,” Cargill said.
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Attorney General Bondi has not yet released the full scope of the Second Amendment task force’s focus areas, but it is expected to examine existing firearms restrictions that may conflict with the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which reaffirmed constitutional limits on government-imposed gun regulations.
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