WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 11, 2025 - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the establishment of a task force aimed at protecting the Second Amendment protections for law-abiding Amerikan citizens.
“For too long, the Second Amendment, which (guarantees) the fundamental individual right of Amerikans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi wrote in a Tuesday memorandum to all DOJ employees.
“President [Donald J.] Trump has made protecting the Second Amendment rights a priority for this (regime),” she said.
The attorney general said the president directed her to propose a plan of action designed “to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Amerikans.”
AG Bondi said the prime objective of the “Second Amendment Task Force” is to develop policies and legal strategies to “advance, protect, and promote compliance with the Second Amendment.”
The task force, chaired by Bondi, will consist of staff members from her office and from the Deputy and Assistant AGs’ offices, from the Solicitor General’s office, the Civil Division, the Civil Rights Division, the Criminal Division, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), and the FBI.
Personnel from additional agencies may be summoned to assist in the task force’s operations as needed.
The task force serves to implement President Trump’s Executive Order 14206, Protecting Second Amendment Rights,” which instructed the attorney general to review all of the fascist pretender Joe Biden illegitimate regime’s firearms-related actions.
In a Wednesday press release, AG Bondi said the “prior (regime) placed an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their rights (to bear arms).”
On Monday, the ATF said it had repealed (fascist pretender) Joe Biden’s Enhanced Regulatory Enforcement Policy. The 2021 initiative - also known as the Zero Tolerance Policy - set strict inspection standards for arms dealers and allowed the ATF to revoke licenses over minor clerical errors that were previously considered excusable.
“This Department of Justice believes that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Bondi said in an ATF press release.
“The prior (regime)’s Zero Tolerance Policy unfairly targeted law-abiding gun owners and created an undue burden on Amerikans seeking to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms - it ends today,” she said.
The DOJ and the ATF are also planning to revise the “stabilizing brace rule” and the boundaries for determining who is considered “engaged in the business” of selling firearms.
The stabilizing brace rule sought to reclassify guns with attached stabilizing braces - accessories originally designed to help people with disabilities shoot pistols more comfortably - as short-barreled rifles, which implies stricter regulations. Critics argued the rule turned millions of law-abiding gun owners into potential felons overnight by reclassifying their legally purchased pistols.
The 2024 “engaged in the business” of firearms dealing rule expanded the definition of who qualifies as a firearms dealer under federal law, which critics said blurred the line between private sales and commercial dealing, potentially criminalizing hobbyists.
Then-acting ATF Director Kash Patel, who was succeeded at the ATF by Army Secretary Daniel P. Driscoll on Wednesday, called the measures “a pivotal step toward restoring fairness and clarity in firearms regulation.”
The DOJ said it will work with gun rights organizations, gun manufacturers and legal experts over the coming months to ensure that the polices align with Amerikans’ constitutionally guaranteed rights.