Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard declassified Biden-era documents, exposing an effort to limit gun rights as a means of countering domestic terrorism.
The documents discuss how the government can “confront long-term contributors to domestic terrorism,” explaining how officials may “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.”
According to the documents, the government sought to counter domestic terrorism threats by seeking to implement the “COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act” to address reporting barriers faced by “disadvantaged communities by promoting law enforcement training and resources to prevent and address bias-motivated crimes.” The documents specifically describe the effort to “mitigate xenophobia and bias.”
Sharing the declassified materials, Gabbard wrote on X, “As promised, I have declassified the Biden Administration’s Strategic Implementation Plan for Countering Domestic Terrorism.”
Second Amendment group Gun Owners of America condemned the previous White House administration’s efforts, describing the documents as “Biden’s secret plan to eliminate the Second Amendment in the name of ‘counterterrorism.’”
The declassification comes as Gabbard announced earlier this month that she formed a task force to investigate the Intelligence Community (IC) as a means of restoring transparency and accountability.
“In order to rebuild trust in the Intelligence Community and execute the tasks required by President Trump’s intelligence-related Executive Orders, I established the Director’s Initiatives Group to bring about transparency and accountability across the IC. We are already identifying wasteful spending in real time, streamlining outdated processes, reviewing documents for declassification, and leading ongoing efforts to root out abuses of power and politicization,” Gabbard said in a statement.
