Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the establishment of a Second Amendment Task Force, telling employees that the amendment will not be treated as a “second-class right.”
“For too long, the Second Amendment, which establishes the fundamental individual right of Americans to keep and bear arms, has been treated as a second-class right. No more,” the memo, obtained by NBC News, reads. “It is the policy of this Department of Justice to use its full might to protect the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.”
Earlier this week, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced the repeal of the Enhanced Regulatory Enforcement Policy introduced under the Biden administration.
The prior administration’s ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy unfairly targeted law-abiding gun owners and created an undue burden on Americans seeking to exercise their constitutional right to bear arms – it ends today,” Bondi said, in part.
The Biden-era “Zero Tolerance” policy, announced in 2021, “set more stringent criteria for Industry Operations compliance inspections to identify licensees with certain qualifying violations,” the ATF said.
Pro-Second Amendment activities come as President Donald Trump signed an executive order in February that explicitly states the Second Amendment is an “indispensable safeguard of security and liberty.”
“It has preserved the right of the American people to protect ourselves, our families, and our freedoms since the founding of our great Nation,” the order says. “Because it is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans, the right to keep and bear arms must not be infringed.”
