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Subject: Re: Good News on the 2A Front
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 19:16:31 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 8, 2025 at 5:51:51 AM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

> On 2025-02-07 11:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> 
>>   From the White House:
>>  
>>  Section 1. Purpose.
>>  
>>  The 2nd 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. Because
>> it
>>  is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans, the right
>>  to keep and bear arms must not be infringed.
>>  
>>  Section 2. Plan of Action
>>  
>>  (a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Attorney General shall
>>  examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements,
>>  and other actions of executive departments and agencies to assess any
>> ongoing
>>  infringements of the 2nd Amendment rights of our citizens and present a
>>  proposed plan of action to the President, through the Domestic Policy
>> Advisor,
>>  to protect the 2nd Amendment rights of all Americans.
>>  
>>  (b) In developing such proposed plan of action, the Attorney General shall
>>  review, at a minimum:
>>  
>>  (i) All Presidential and agencies' actions from January 2021 through January
>>  2025 that purport to promote safety but may have impinged on the 2nd
>> Amendment
>>  rights of law-abiding citizens;
>>  
>>  (ii) Rules promulgated by the Department of Justice, including the Bureau of
>>  Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, from January 2021 through
>> January
>>  2025 pertaining to firearms and/or federal firearms licensees;
>>  
>>  (iii) Agencies' plans, orders, and actions regarding so-called "enhanced
>>  regulatory enforcement policy" pertaining to firearms and/or federal
>> firearms
>>  licensees;
>>  
>>  (iv) Reports and related documents issued by the White House Office of Gun
>>  Violence Prevention;
>>  
>>  (v) The positions taken by the United States in any and all ongoing and
>>  potential litigation that affects or could affect the ability of Americans
>> to
>>  exercise their 2nd Amendment rights;
>>  
>>         (vi) Agencies' classifications of firearms and ammunition; and
>>  
>>  (vii) The processing of applications to make, manufacture, transfer, or
>> export
>>  firearms.
>>  
> Wow! I'll bet THAT is going to be controversial at the very least! It 
> will surely cause many, many meltdowns among those who are convinced 
> that gun laws are keeping them safe.

Yes, I hope Newsom's stroke will be a funny one.

>>  Plus a federal judge in Mississippi just ruled that the federal ban on
>>  full-auto machine guns is unconstitutional.
>>  
> In normal circumstances, I'd fully expect to see the DOJ appeal that 
> all the way to the Supremes if necessary. But these are NOT normal 
> times: Trump is doing a major reset of pretty much everything the 
> federal government does. The federal judge in Mississippi may have made 
> this ruling to curry favour with Trump.

Now we have machine guns. Ho-ho-ho

> Does Trump have the power to repeal all the current regulations 
> unilaterally and permanently? Or is he just going to keep writing 
> executive orders that could be reversed the next time the Dems hold the 
> presidency?

He can countermand regulations from agencies under the Executive Branch but
for anything statutory, only Congress or the courts can reverse those.