U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday the creation of a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force to protect the fundamental right to keep and bear arms.
The task force is part of Bondi’s response to President Donald Trump’s executive order of February 7 to root out unconstitutional Biden Administration rules on firearms and roll them back to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.
“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,” Bondi wrote in a memo to Department of Justice employees. “No more. It is the policy of this Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
Bondi said that the new Second Amendment Task Force is one element of a comprehensive plan of action that she is proposing to President Trump.
“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,” she wrote. “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.”
Bondi will chair the task force and the associate attorney general will serve as the vice chair. Other members of the task force will include representatives from Bondi’s personal staff, the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, the Office of the Associate Attorney General, the Office of the Solicitor General, the Civil Division, the Civil Rights Division, the Criminal Division, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
“The prior administration placed an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights,” Bondi said in a press release announcing the action. “The Department of Justice’s new Second 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.”
Of course, pro-gun organizations, including the Citizens Committee On The Right To Keep And Bear Arms (CCRKBA), reacted very positively to AG Bondi’s announcement.
“This is the news we’ve been waiting for,” said Alan Gottlieb, CCRKBA chairman. “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.”
Gottlieb added that his organization is hopeful the task force will have a long-term effect on the freedom of all American gun owners.
“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 said. “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.”
Is a task force higher or lower than a committee?
Commission, working group, conference, etc….
I’ve worked at plenty of large companies to know that these terms are all synonyms for time-wasting, lunch-eating, position-justification and resume-padding. Any real work to be done is done outside of these groups often by people not involved with these groups while the group is eating lunch or arguing about something not remotely related to the mission of the group.
Don’t forget “Tiger Team”.
On the corporate scale, I’ve experienced the Tiger Team to be the most urgent and the (ahem) “most implementing” of all those you mentioned.
I didn’t say most effective. They just are expected to be the answer to “will SOMEBODY do something”. Sometimes the everyday bureaucracy is forced to give way with a Tiger Team. I got that to happen once by creative use of the phrases “move the needle”, “we need can-do behaviors”, “entrepreneurial teamwork”, and something-something about “metrics” being our future report-card for senior leadership.
But I was also in charge of ordering lunch that week, so maybe that was more convincing for some attendees. Also, I’m a menu whisperer, so we ate like kings and queens.
Lunch for Groups Trivia: The attendees who tell you they need a “vegan option” for every lunch will skip 50% or more of the meals anyway, and they are also the same people who will nod “yes” all week, but will put up the most resistance when everybody goes home and has to make things happen.
Those other groups do a lot more talking about things like “personas” and “pain points”. Tiger Teams do that too, probably because it’s a requirement for all of those types of groups.
Bingo
It’s a start. I assume Don Jr & Eric are pestering dad who has a LOT on his plate!
And me. This was another of my complaints in my most recent letter to the President. Just sent back on Monday or Tuesday.
With the Kash Patel leaving ATF thing the other day, 2 of my 12 items have been done/moved-on. That leaves at least 10 other things I’m waiting to see if the President does. I’ll continue to keep score going forward!
But no, I didn’t repeat my comment about gun control being the root of all racism and genocide. I believe it’s true, of course. But there’s a thing as too frequent to make a lasting impact. I’ll do it again next time, and then again in the late summertime. Eventually, I do believe we can get the President (or even the AG) to say it out loud in front of God and everybody. That would be a huge win and a good start to reshaping attitudes.
In Russia you make joke, dah?
A group of Trump “good old boys and girls” making high pay and sitting around and talking for months and nothing done
To say something like that you must miss biden/harris? Yes or No.
I think he does miss the dumpster fire from former President Mumblemouth McStumblefeet, and his cackling drunk sidekick Vice President Wordsalad Innayellowbus.
Thank you President Trump! I know the executive branch can only do so much but it’s a great start and stark contrast to the gun haters Biden/Harris. Hopefully some prodding can be done to get SCOTUS to take some action on what the blue states have been doing to their gun owning subjects.
Oh, and an investigation needs to be done on the killing of Arkansas resident Bryan Malinowski by ATF agents after he tried to defend his home after multiple ATF agents busted down his door and invaded his home with rifles blazing in the early morning. Someone needs to go to prison over that.
Rats, I forgot to mention this in my last letter to the President. I meant to, but the letter was getting too long and I had to wrap it up.
Can somebody else cover me on this? Thanks!
Begin with Historical Analogies Confirm Gun Contol in Any Shape, Matter or Form is Rooted in Racism and Genocide…and work their way down from that.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hH4mvlfOVI&si=1HJocJQeErCEnt5J
100% right.
It is my dream to get a mainstream republican to say this out loud and have it picked up by national media. This is how we make it the national conversation, and not just a bullet point.
Wake me up when we can carry on Army Corps of Engineers properties. At the end of Trump’s last term the Army Corps of Engineers was accepting public comment regarding changing their policy that restricts the carrying of firearms on Corps-managed properties. When Biden was elected that proposed change quietly went away.
wanna royally screw something up… create a committee or a task force… works 100% of the time…
I guess this is all the Republicans can do is more BS for us 2A supporters. Task forces or committees is not what is needed. Just repeal the laws passed that prohibit our 2A rights right now over that last 90+ years. Congress could have repealed these laws during Trumps first week in office, but they did not. More talk and not actions, it has been almost 100 days and still nothing.
Where is the Beef? Send those 2A supporters plant based crap, they will believe us for doing nothing if we keep talking about do something for the 2A.
Did you miss Civics in HS? How many progtards dems in the US Senate? How does a bill become law?
Repeal the laws? That would require 7 democrat senators to vote with them and that would never happen.
Pam Bondi would make an excellent first female President of the United States.
I’d like to see the USDOJ send US Marshalls out to the bedwetters states enforce Bruen.
Exactly. I’ll get excited when they start arresting civil rights violators and prosecuting them with the same enthusiasm that they would apply to any other civil rights violation.
They should start in Illinois, but they are probably reluctant because of the cost of feeding our preposterously obese governor, which would likely bankrupt the federal government.
What is the problem with the USA joining the plaintiffs on existing legislation? Why not be the plaintiffs in a suit to enforce US v Miller, 1939, and prosecute anyone who even taxes weapons of use to national defense?
It would be nice of she sent DOJ lawyers to Court in an effort to assist gun makers to defeat the bogus law suits blaming the manufacturers rather than the criminal that pulled the trigger.