CCRKBA Celebrates Creation of 2A Task Force at DOJ

There is now going to be a Second Amendment task force at the Department of Justice. Its job will be to go after unconstitutional gun control laws passed in various states and local communities. This, as Cam put it when he talked about it on Wednesday, could be a big deal for gun owners.

I absolutely agree with him.

It seems that the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms also agrees, as they said in a press release send on Wednesday.

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is hailing the decision by Attorney General Pamela Bondi to create a Second Amendment Task Force within the Department of Justice “to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.” 

Bondi issued a memorandum to all DOJ employees on Tuesday. In her memo, the AG Bondi stated, “For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more… President Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this administration.”

“This is the news we’ve been waiting for,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “From the wording of Attorney General Bondi’s memo, it looks like ‘gloves off’ time may have finally arrived. It marks a significant, and welcome change at the Department of Justice, because it is clear we now have leadership in place which treats gun owners as allies instead of antagonists. 

“Almost immediately after the 2021 inauguration, the Biden administration, without cause or provocation, declared war on American gun owners and the Second Amendment,” Gottlieb continued, “and that war is still being waged by far-left Democrats in several states, where passing the most egregious restrictions on Second Amendment rights appears to be a contest to see who can be more extreme.”

In her memo, obtained by CCRKBA, AG Bondi writes, “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.” She will chair the Task Force, which will be composed of representatives from several departments including the Civil Rights Division, Civil Division, Criminal Division, FBI, ATF and others.

“We’re hoping this bold step by Attorney General Bondi brings an end to years of harassment and penalization of gun owners, and begins the process of dismantling unconstitutional laws and regulations at the federal, state and local levels of government,” Gottlieb stated. “The Second Amendment protects a first-class right, and it feels great that after years of fighting this battle, gun owners now have support, rather than resistance, from the Department of Justice, and an administration that is definitely in our corner.

“It’s great to have a Department of Justice defending Second Amendment rights,” he said, “instead of attacking them.”

Honestly, that last line sums it up perfectly.

Of course, unless Congress mandates this to continue, it’ll die the moment an anti-gun president takes office. I’m not stupid. I know that ostensibly pro-gun politicians won’t hold the White House indefinitely. The country swings back and forth too much for that to be the case, unfortunately. That means sooner or later, someone who doesn’t like guns will simply order this away.

But for now, this is something very good for us and all Americans.

I know that some take issue with the right to keep and bear arms, but my thinking is that if they don’t like it, they don’t have to buy a gun. For the rest of us, these laws either inhibit or prohibit the exercise of that right. They’re meant to discourage us from exercising that right.

And this is what the civil rights division at the Department of Justice is supposed to look out for.

Yet they haven’t. The DOJ has, at best, been ambivalent about our Second Amendment rights. They’ve largely either looked away or actively taken part in the effort to infringe on our rights.

Now, that’s looking to change.

What we need to see now, though, is more than just announcements about task forces and the like. We need to see results. We need to see investigations and legal action designed to fix the broken system infringing on gun rights in this country. There’s a plethora of opportunities for this task force, so there’s no reason for them not to hit the ground running–assuming the LASD investigation isn’t just that, anyway–and show us that real things are happening.

This is what we voted for.