Second Amendment/ATF related issues (Discussion thread)

[Live Life]

Harmeet Dhillon is Assistant Attorney General of DOJ Civil Rights Division which is investigating restrictive 2A laws in CA and other states and she is part of AG Pam Bondi's DOJ 2A Task Force in response to Executive Order on Second Amendment - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472068#msg1472068

AAGHarmeetDhillon - https://x.com/AAGDhillon/status/1912628914586788224

Attended my second meeting of the Second Amendment Task Force at @TheJusticeDept. It's a working group of highly motivated attorneys from different federal law enforcement agencies including several within DOJ.

Gun rights are civil rights. Stay tuned!

Definitely will be following 2A Task Force updates.

BUT this is VERY INTERESTING ...

Gun Owners of America - https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1912660199539716393

🚨 BREAKING🚨

Tulsi Gabbard declassifies President Biden’s secret plan to eliminate the Second Amendment in the name of “counterterrorism.”

DNI Tulsi Gabbard - https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1912647067807232372

As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.
 
Read it here: https://odni.gov/index.php/newsroom/dig/4064-dig-strat-impl-plan-ct-biden

[Live Life]

DNI Tulsi Gabbard - https://x.com/DNIGabbard/status/1912647067807232372

As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.

... Action 4.1.1a: Rein in the proliferation of "ghost guns"; encourage state adoption of extreme risk protection orders; and drive other executive and legislative action. including banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.

Gun Owners of America - https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1912660199539716393

🚨 BREAKING🚨

Tulsi Gabbard declassifies President Biden’s secret plan to eliminate the Second Amendment in the name of “counterterrorism.”

Time for SCOTUS to act on Snope/Ocean State Tactical/Duncan to rule against executive/legislative actions against Second Amendment.

Kostas Moros - https://x.com/MorosKostas/status/1912654039969616214

I hope people grasp what a big deal this is.

The Biden Administration was pursuing bans on common rifles and magazines, among other gun control, as a way to "increase faith in democracy and government." It's dystopian.

And it's an admission that they saw the Second Amendment as not a right to be protected, but a threat to their vision of the country.

[Live Life]

Despite AG Pam Bondi's press releases and media interviews expressing full support of 2A to carry out Executive Order on Second Amendment, there's been continued anti-2A actions.  These two videos explain anti-2A holdovers from Biden administration are likely behind these anti-2A actions.

If so, AG Pam Bondi needs to "clean house" faster and reverse their actions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IE2VL-YAd8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4Dmaj61RuY

[Live Life]

We are seeing many actions by DOJ/ATF that is inconsistent with Executive Order on Second Amendment and press releases by AG Pam Bondi.  Perhaps I could consider these actions by Biden-era/Anti-2A bureaucrats to be reeled in/reversed by new ATF Chief Counsel and subsequent staff but we are watching closely what is unfolding before everyone's eyes.

Here's one pro-2A action of Biden-era/anti-2A bureaucrats reeled in/reversed by Pam Bondi DOJ.

After GOA/FRAC sent letter to drop new charge by DOJ designating braced CZ Scorpion both pistol and SBR, DOJ drops charge - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472148#msg1472148

This is good and I am sure more pro-2A "actions" to come from Pam Bondi DOJ.

[Live Life]

... growing really curious what is contained in AG Pam Bondi's report as to exactly when/how ACTIONS will be taken to fulfill 2A EO.

So ... AG Pam Bondi's report in response to Executive Order on the Second Amendment was done and already reported to the President?  And we are starting to see the ACTIONS taken outlined in the report? 

Mark Smith - https://x.com/fourboxesdiner/status/1913223086800798009

As per the executive order, AG Pam Bondi had to report her recommendations to President Trump himself. There was no duty to make the report public. I suspect the effects of the report will be seen soon (in fact we are already seeing its effects in various ways).

[Live Life]

Another relist of Snope/Ocean State Tactical cases (11 relists and counting) - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472456#new

At this point, I am thinking Supreme Court is waiting for Duncan case which is magazine ban case with 9th Circuit en banc merits decision because Ocean State Tactical magazine ban case is interlocutory.
Then the Supreme Court could review Snope and Duncan both with merits decision ...

[Live Life]

... AG Pam Bondi's report as to exactly when/how ACTIONS will be taken to fulfill 2A EO

Looks like Pam Bondi's DOJ is taking actions:

Dropping SBR charge for braced CZ Scorpion pistol - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472148#msg1472148

Settlement discussion regarding Forced Reset Trigger - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472641#msg1472641

Withdrawing from 80% frame/receiver case - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472643#msg1472643

[Live Life]

CA DOJ AG's office released Information Bulletin for state's LE agencies - https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/2025-dle-10.pdf

... Under the Order, residents of U.S. states and territories other than California will be eligible to apply for a California CCW license under Penal Code sections 26150 through 26235 only if they are both:

(1) members of
(a) the California Rifle & Pistol Association, Incorporated,
(b) Gun Owners of America, Inc.,
(c) Gun Owners of California, Inc., or
(d) The Second Amendment Foundation;
AND

(2) not otherwise prohibited from possessing firearms under federal or California law.

[Live Life]

Looks like Pam Bondi's DOJ is taking actions:

Dropping SBR charge for braced CZ Scorpion pistol - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472148#msg1472148

Settlement discussion regarding Forced Reset Trigger - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472641#msg1472641

Withdrawing from 80% frame/receiver case - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472643#msg1472643

More Pam Bondi DOJ taking action as Supreme Court appeal deadline allowed to pass for Range v Garland - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1472708#msg1472708

[Live Life]

Exodus of leadership and senior level employees continue at ATF - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.325#msg1472718

My guess is they are all anti-gun, anti-2A, anti-Trump, anti-Pam Bondi employees?

[dogmush]

This is good.  I am pleased to see something happening.  As I repeatedly said above, a decent start would be to just stop the actions they were still activly pursuing.  It appears our assigned Fed passed my feedback up the chain.

Additionally, they apparently fired the ATF Assistant Director. Considering the interm Director is still SECARMY (as far as I know) I wonder who is in charge of day-to-day dog extermination.

https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1914801017553592368

Gun Owners of America
@GunOwners
🚨UPDATE🚨

ATF Assistant Director Megan Bennett has been fired, Ammoland News reports. Bennett & her department:

❌Gave former ATF Director Dettlebach a "ghost gun" as a retirement gift.

❌Ignored a legal injunction & forbade a GOA member from attaching a brace to his pistol.

[Live Life]

This is good.  I am pleased to see something happening.

... they apparently fired the ATF Assistant Director ... I wonder who is in charge of day-to-day dog extermination.

Yes and probably less and less concern for "enforcement" as exodus turns into a dumpster fire panic ... While gun toting LEOs of ATF are tracking down illegal criminals and gang bangers with FBI ...

Firearms Policy Coalition - https://x.com/gunpolicy/status/1915053435021639862

"Four assistant directors and the agency’s chief technology officer have left or announced plans to leave the agency in the past six months ... The turmoil [at ATF] has caused an exodus of senior-level employees and left remaining staff feeling discouraged and destabilized..."

[Live Life]

This is good.  I am pleased to see something happening.

More actions from AG Pam Bondi DOJ.

Looks like more people are going to get laid off and lose their jobs ... Elections have consequences ...

National Association for Gun Rights - https://x.com/NatlGunRights/status/1915424075624964464

BREAKING: Reports are coming out that the DOJ just scrapped billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded anti-gun grant programs.

These grants, pushed through under the so-called Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, were already in motion.

They've been canceled for not "aligning with the administration’s priorities".

We are looking further into this.

Washington Post - DOJ cancels grants for gun-violence and addiction prevention, victim advocacy.  Attorney General Pam Bondi said the cuts eliminated “millions of dollars in wasteful grants." - https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/22/justice-department-grants-canceled/

[MechAg94]

I thought there was already an Deputy ATF director hired. 

New Deputy Director Robert Cekada. 
https://x.com/NatlGunRights/status/1912219346585416201?t=kEGebi9nrgU67KabP1kldA&s=19

[Live Life]

I thought there was already an Deputy ATF director hired. 

New Deputy Director Robert Cekada. 
https://x.com/NatlGunRights/status/1912219346585416201?t=kEGebi9nrgU67KabP1kldA&s=19

That post is from April 15.

This was posted/updated on ATF's website on April 14 - https://armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=70249.msg1471987#msg1471987

Leadership changes at ATF ...

- Robert Cekada was appointed as the Deputy Director for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) - https://www.atf.gov/about/leadership/deputy-director

[Live Life]

BREAKING: Reports are coming out that the DOJ just scrapped billions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded anti-gun grant programs ...

We are looking further into this.

And confirmation from AG Pam Bondi ...

Attorney General Pamela Bondi - https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1915184169069818356

The Department of Justice has started cutting millions of dollars in wasteful grants. Some of the greatest hits include:

$2M for “national listening sessions of individuals with lived experience”

$695k for “a parallel convergent mixed-methods case study research design to assess the efficacy of police departments’ LGBTQ liaison services”

$250k for “working with incarcerated transgender individuals providing gender affirming care to including housing in gender appropriate facilities”

More to come.

National Association for Gun Rights - https://x.com/NatlGunRights/status/1915430502036607359

Hundreds of millions*

Learning more as we dig.

Gun Owners of America - https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1900185843299475465

Hey @DOGE, these illegal @NIH grants need to be canceled ASAP⤵️

- $3.6M for “firearm retirement” for senior citizens
- $1.2M for “check-ins” on "guns at home"
- $2.1M to study “firearm possession" by Asian Americans
- $1.1M on “gun ownership and risk"
- $650K on “firearm prohibitions and relinquishment"
- $333K to “promote effective” gun confiscation laws & wait periods
- $428K on how “crime reports… reinforce racist stereotypes”
- $518K on “firearm storage” & confiscation laws
- $490K to compare states' "gun policies"
- $349K to show if "firearm laws reduce mortality"
- $126K on "Black Americans' elevated gun violence exposure"

These grants violate the Dickey Amendment which says that CDC and NIH money may not be used "to advocate or promote gun control."

Gun Owners of America - https://x.com/GunOwners/status/1915454687421358545

🚨BREAKING🚨

@AGPamBondi has axed millions of dollars in wasteful CDC & NIH grants—including many which GOA has long critiqued for being used to unlawfully "advocate or promote gun control."

Gun Owners of America

DOJ just cut $2 million from @YouthALIVE510. The anti-gun group:

❌teaches young Americans about the so-called "myth of guns being used as protection"
❌trains participants to talk other people "out of carrying a gun"
❌pressures businesses "to stop advertising handguns"