US lawmakers take a solemn oath to defend the Constitution, but some have not taken that responsibility seriously in recent years.
Take Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD). He and several anti-gunner colleagues are up in arms over President Donald Trump’s (R) executive order (EO) issued to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
She was charged to “examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens.”
The Oval Office EO described the right to keep and bear arms as “an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty.” It is a freedom that “has preserved the right of the American people to protect ourselves, our families, and our freedoms since the founding of our great Nation.”
Raskin took substantial issue with this White House directive.
In a recent letter obtained by courthousenews.com, the Maryland lawmaker declared, “There is plainly no need for any new plan of action to, in the words of the executive order, ‘protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans.’”
This bold assertion, which certainly should be taken at face value, came despite gun rights advocates’ continuing fight against final rules published by the previous administration that targeted these freedoms.
Raskin also defended the embattled Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The AG was ordered to review the agency’s egregious “zero tolerance” policy that drove firearm retailers out of business over minor and inadvertent paperwork errors.
The representative claimed that the targeted retailers were guilty of “violating the Gun Control Act through transferring a firearm to a prohibited person, failing to conduct a background check, falsifying records, failing to respond to a trace request or refusing to allow ATF to conduct an inspection.”
This assertion is frivolous at best. Long-standing businesses were forced to shutter their locations due to easily fixable bookkeeping mistakes.
In an unintentionally hilarious aside, the congressional letter reminded Bondi that only the legislature can create new laws. This is despite the extended practice of ATF bureaucrats enacting rules that have never received approval from Congress.
The EO came down in early February to protect Second Amendment freedoms, and the initial response by gun rights advocates was overwhelmingly positive.
John Commerford, Executive Director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA), celebrated the White House edict. “After a long four years, law-abiding gun owners no longer have to worry about being the target of an anti-gun radical administration.”
However, just how much was accomplished by the AG’s monthlong probe?
ABC News reported that the deadline handed to Bondi to review controversial policies quietly passed without a significant announcement. The 30-day mark came and went, leaving at least one expert to tell the outlet that supporting gun rights may not be on the front burner.
Andrew Willinger is the executive director of the Center for Firearms Law at Duke University School of Law. He told ABC that the EO and follow-up likely signaled that defending the Second Amendment “isn’t a top priority.”
“Obviously, if there were things that were on the administration’s radar as possibly violating the Second Amendment or violating the rights of gun owners in some way, they would have started to roll those back right away and wouldn’t have needed to take this intermediate step of issuing a directive to the Attorney General to figure out what those were.”
It is crucial to hold our leaders’ feet to the fire, no matter how much they say they support the right to keep and bear arms. The opposition believes gun rights should not be protected, which is even more reason to safeguard these precious freedoms.
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