Protecting Second Amendment Rights Executive Order
On Friday, February 7th, the President of the United States issued an executive order entitled Protecting Second Amendment Rights. Given the all-out assault on the Second Amendment by the previous administration, this is a significant event, but will the result be what we want?
This is the link to the Executive Order on the White House website. I encourage you to take a few minutes and read it for yourself. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/protecting-second-amendment-rights-7b90/
As expected, the reaction from the extreme left anti-gun zealots and their talking heads was swift and unhinged.
From Everytown: BREAKING: Trump just signed a sweeping executive order calling on
Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate “ongoing infringements” of the Second Amendment. Let’s be clear: The bipartisan, life-saving, and extremely popular progress on gun safety made under the leadership of the Biden Administration is consistent with the Second Amendment, which is why 15 Senate Republicans supported the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
From Giffords: “Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children and teens in America — we cannot make it easier for guns to fall into dangerous hands. The president’s priority should be to build on the lifesaving progress made over the last four years, not boost profits for gun company CEOs.” “The Second Amendment isn’t under attack. GIFFORDS built a coalition of thousands of gun owners who, like me, know that there is no conflict between the Second Amendment and commonsense gun safety. Any effort to repeal important, lifesaving measures will harm public safety and put our children at risk. The safety of our families, our children, our schools and our communities is not a partisan issue. That’s not what Americans voted for in November.”
For those of us in the real world, we know the previous administration did absolutely NOTHING life-saving, or to enhance public safety or protect children. In fact, all the measures taken were against law abiding firearm owners by limiting their ability to protect themselves and their families at home and in public. ALL these groups are complicit in the tragedies at schools by making them gun free zones that ensures they have ZERO on-site protection from law enforcement or armed security. And p.s., so-called “gun violence” is not the leading cause of death for children in America. That is a lie. But let’s not go there right now.
What do we think is going to happen with this?
First off, given the decisive actions taken from day one by this President, it’s safe to assume this will not be a typical government analyze and bury studies. We should reasonably expect the report in 30 days and for it to be relatively straight forward.
The fact that the ATF is specifically called out gives us hope their overzealous and unconstitutional attempts to create new, restrictive gun control laws on bump stocks, frames and receivers, forced reset triggers, stabilizing braces and bans on imports and exports could be stopped. We can also hope the zero tolerance administrative actions towards FFL’s (Federal Firearm License) and extreme force raids for non-violent offenses could come to an end as well.
BUT, we also must understand this Executive Action is directed to the new Attorney General of the Department of Justice (DOJ) who has a history of vigorously supporting so-called “Red Flag” laws, including advising the current President on them during his previous administration.
Our hope comes from that we have already seen the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a new federal job for gun control lobbyists inside the walls of the White House, disbanded.
This Executive Order is significant, especially after previous administrations have done everything in their power to restrict the rights of law-abiding firearm owners and users while doing nothing to prevent or punish those who blatantly violate the laws we already have with impunity.
We should also not take this as a time to let up on our legal and legislative efforts, especially at the state level. With both chambers of Congress being a near 50/50 split, any significant federal laws having anything to do with Second Amendment protected rights are going to be damn near impossible to push through.
So, let’s keep our fingers crossed we get the results we want from this Executive Order, and we can translate this success down to our own states.
Bob
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