Last month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that might prove to be one of the most significant actions ever taken by any administration to protect Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Among other things, the order instructs Attorney General Pam Bondi to thoroughly review all existing executive branch policies and regulations involving firearms to identify and eliminate any that are “designed to curtail the clear right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.”
The order also called for a review of all legal positions taken by the federal government in ongoing Second Amendment-related litigation, to ensure that such positions are consistent with safeguarding the right to keep and bear arms.
Trump is right to insist that the federal government’s policies get out of the way of lawful gun owners who’d like to exercise their constitutional…
