Repealing unconstitutional gun control laws through the courts will do wonders for millions of Americans. While the Department of Justice isn’t doing as great on that issue as we’d like, they are accomplishing a lot with state measures. Yeah, I wish they’d stop defending things like suppressor registration, among other things, but we’re still getting some good.
And it seems that it’s not just arming regular Americans with guns, but Second Amendment attorneys with new weapons in their arsenals.
Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, says her office’s goal is to have all state regulations that are inconsistent with pro-Second Amendment cases be struck down, settled or withdrawn by the time she leaves her post.
“I’m hiring up and staffing up in our Second Amendment section,” Ms. Dhillon said on Dana Loesch’s “The Dana Show” recently. “And so if anyone watching this as a lawyer who’s passionate about these issues, or they’re passionate about them in general, we can train them up for these issues, but we’ve actually hired some great career lawyers here who come from the Second Amendment community, and National Association of Gun Rights lawyers joined our team this week.”
One is Texas Gun Rights Board Chairman Barry Arrington.
“We’re really excited to have that expertise on board,” Ms. Dhillon said on the radio show. “We want to develop that expertise, because when this administration is done, we’d like to have a whole cadre of lawyers who are trained in enforcing these laws all over the country.”
Sooner or later, the Democrats will take control of the White House again, and when they do, they’ll likely clean house. The Civil Rights Division will go back to ignoring the Second Amendment except as a pain in the posterior, and all of those attorneys who have been hired and trained up even better will filter back into private practice.
Those attorneys will be able to use that knowledge and experience to even greater effect.
Luckily, though, it’s a two-way street, because they’re bringing knowledge and experience to the DOJ.
For those who don’t have that experience but want it, this seems like a hell of a way to make that transition, if you so desire. It’s also a way to have long-lasting ramifications for the gun control movement. After all, they’ve gotten used to having all the government’s people come to them when they’re finished working for the feds. It’ll be an interesting change of pace for them, one they won’t like in the least.
I’m absolutely heartbroken for them. I might even shed a single, solitary tear.
Or, you know, not.
Anyway, it’s an interesting development, and one that I don’t think enough people are really understanding how important this could turn out to be. We could not just make long-term gains restoring our gun rights because of what Dhillon is doing in the Civil Rights Division, but because of the attorneys being trained to defend the Second Amendment for years and years to come.
I hate that so much rides on attorneys, but if it’s going to ride on them, let’s get as many as possible, get them as knowledgeable as possible, and give no ground.
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