Trump Needs Reminder of Promise to Gun Rights Advocates

President Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House has certainly been interesting, to say the least. Despite him not being all that much younger than Joe Biden, the difference in energy is stark.

Trump is getting a lot done in the short time he’s been in office and he’s already kept a ton of promises.

As such, there’s little reason to believe he won’t keep more. 

However, it seems he might need a reminder about one in particular, and that’s the one he made to gun owners.

The pro-gun group Gun Owners of America (GOA) strongly supported President Donald Trump during last year’s election, sending out many communications to members explaining how his stance on the Second Amendment compared to that of the other candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris.

Now, the organization is encouraging its members to remind the president of certain promises he made during the campaign regarding the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

“President Trump promised gun-owning voters that Biden’s unconstitutional anti-gun disasters would ‘get ripped up and torn out during the first weekof his Administration,” GOA said in a national alert. “We just officially passed that milestone in the Trump-Vance Administration—and Biden’s anti-gun policies are still in effect.”

GOA is particularly interested in three matters that President Trump specifically promised to take action on while on the campaign trail—stopping the Biden pistol brace ban, revoking the Universal Background Check rule and ending Biden’s “Zero Tolerance” policy on gun stores. To that end, GOA has prepared a letter that members and other gun owners can sign onto that will be sent to the president as a reminder that there’s work to do as far as gun rights are concerned.

For the record, the “Universal Background Check rule” mentioned here is the redefining of “engaged in the business” of selling firearms to include anyone who makes a profit.

And I agree about ending all three of these.

The zero-tolerance policy most definitely hasn’t changed, as I noted recently, though the wording of what there would be zero-tolerance of changed, but not in a way that couldn’t be abused in a similar manner to the previous policy.

The pistol brace ban should never have happened, but since it did, I’m of the opinion that Cargill should have settled that one. I get why it didn’t, but I still think the ATF should have read the room enough to reverse that ruling on its own.

All of these things Trump promised to correct, as well as the Biden administration’s assault on privately made firearm kits. While he’s been quite busy and gotten a lot of things done during his brief time in office so far, he made a promise on this with a defined timeline. We’re in the right to wonder where that movement has been.

Now, I’m patient enough and willing to consider that “the first week” was a small bit of hyperbole from a president well known for his hyperbole, but we still want to see movement and see it soon. To that end, Gun Owners of America is asking for people to sign a letter here that will be sent to President Trump asking for him to fulfill that promise.