The deadline has silently approved the Attorney General PAM Bondi delivering a report to President Donald Trump about whether any surplus administration policy violates the right of Americans to support weapons. He arrived only a few days after the Democratic leaders sent him a letter that suggests that “there is clearly no need for any new action plan.”
Trump signed an executive order on February 7 after campaigning promises to weapons rights such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) that “nobody will put a finger in their firearms.”
The president instructed Bondi to “examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements and other actions of the departments and executive agencies” and determine if any of them violates the second amendment.
“The second amendment is an indispensable safeguarding of security and freedom. It has preserved the right of the American people to protect ourselves, our families and our freedoms from the foundation of our great nation,” says Trump’s executive order. “Because it is essential to maintain all the other rights of Americans, the right to maintain and carry weapons should not be infringed.”
The attorney general Pam Bondi walks towards the west wing of the White House, on February 21, 2025, in Washington.
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The 30 -day brand for Bondi informs Trump through its national policy director would have been last Sunday.
Andrew Willinger, Executive Director of the Center for Firearms Law of the Law Faculty of the University of Duke, told ABC News the Executive Order widely written “indicates that this is not a priority” for the Trump administration.
“Obviously, if there were things that were in the Radar of the Administration as possibly violating the second amendment or violating the rights of arms owners in some way, they could have begun to roll them immediately and they would not have needed to take this intermediate step to issue a directive to the general of the prosecutors to be considered what they had done to them.
‘Perfectly consisting of the second amendment’
After Trump signed the Executive Order, the Executive Vice President of the NRA, Doug Hamlin, issued a statement praising the president’s measure.
“The promises made to the owners of respectful weapons of the law are being maintained by President Donald J. Trump,” said Hamlin. “The members of the NRA were instrumental, resulting in record numbers to ensure their victory, and are demonstrating to be worthy of their votes, faith and confidence in their first days in office.”
John Commerford, Executive Director of the Institute of Legislative Action of the NRA, also issued a statement, saying: “After four years, the owners of respectful weapons of the law no longer have to worry about being the objective of an anti-Armas Radical Administration. The number awaits with the progress and restoration of our rights that will come from the respect of President Trump for the Constitution.”
President Donald Trump is on his desk at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 7, 2025.
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It is not clear whether or not Bondi fulfilled the deadline to deliver the report, nothing had been published publicly until Wednesday. When ABC News asked this week about Bondi’s pending action plan, justice department officials said they would verify but have no immediate information about the state of the report. The White House did not respond to ABC News investigation into Bondi’s pending report.
Earlier this month, the representative Jamie Raskin, D-Maryland, a classification member of the Judicial Committee of the Chamber, and the representative Lucy McBath, D-Georgia, a member of classification of the subcommittee of the Crime and Surveillance Chamber of the Federal Government, sent a letter to Bondi.
“We are determined to protect our communities against the crime of lethal weapons consistently with the second amendment,” they wrote.
The letter said that if Bondi carried out his examination “objectively and in good faith”, he will find that the actions taken by the previous administration to combat armed violence are “perfectly consisting of the second amendment.”
“It is not necessary that any new action plan, in the words of the executive order, ‘protect the rights of the second amendment of all Americans,” said the letter.
In his executive order, Trump instructed Bondi that, in addition to reviewing all the presidential actions taken on the control of weapons from January 2021 to January 2025, he wanted him to review the rules on firearms and federal firearms of firearms implemented by the Department of Justice and the Office of Alcohol, Tobaco, Girearms and Explosives (ATF).
Trump specifically asked Bondi to review the “improved regulatory application policy of the ATF, also called” zero tolerance policy “, implemented in 2021 under Biden and former Attorney General Merrick Garland to identify federal distributors of firearms that violate the 1968 weapons control law.
According to the policy, the firearms dealers were revoked their licenses to deliberately transferred firearms to prohibited people, not carrying out the required background checks, falsifying records and not responding to an application for track tracking. The policy caused several demands of arms merchants who argued that their licenses were revoked on minor administrative errors.
Raskin and McBath stated that in the three years since the policy was implemented, approximately 0.3% of the approximately 130,000 federal federal concessionaires of firearms from the nation received their licenses.
American representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) speaks in a demonstration outside the Department of Human Health and Services, February 19, 2025, in Washington.
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“Through this policy, ATF has enforced the arms control law approved by Congress and revoked the licenses of a small fraction of arms traffickers who intentionally violated the law,” said Raskin and McBath in their letter to Bondi. “The improved regulatory policy of ATF has not prevented a single American who legally has a firearm exercises its rights of the second amendment.”
He ATF reported That in fiscal year 2023, the agency found 1,531 violations after carrying out 8,689 inspections of compliance with firearms. Inspections, according to the ATF, caused 667 warning letters and 170 revocations.
“Weapons sellers who respect the law remain in business throughout the country. In fact, there are more weapon dealers than Starbucks, McDonald’s, Dunkin ‘Donuts, Burger King, Subway and Chick-Fil-Fil-A Combined places,” said Raskin and McBath in their letter.
Democratic legislators asked Bondi to respond to his letter at the end of Monday’s business day, explaining what standards will use to determine if the policies taken by the Biden administration violate the second amendment and how will it guarantee their action plan “does not increase the risk of violent crimes, including deaths from firearms.”
Most Americans favor the strongest weapons laws
A PEW Research Center survey Launched in July 2024 discovered that 61% of respondents agreed that it is too easy to legally obtain a weapon and 58% favored the strictest weapons laws.
“We know that the vast majority of Americans, including arms owners and Trump voters, support basic security laws that take energetic measures against crime and keep all safe communities. These policies are not inconsistent with the second amendment,” said Kris Brown, president of the Brady United weapons security defense group, in a statement after Trump signed the Executive order.
Brown said that under Biden policies included the expansion of background verifications for weapons buyers and “take energetic measures against rogue weapons.”
“They must continue if this president really wants to achieve some of his campaign promises around reducing crime, taking energetic measures against drug traffickers and reducing the flow of weapons trafficked on the southern border,” Brown said.
Following the mass shooting of 2022 at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, which claimed the life of 19 children and two teachers, Biden signed the Safer Bipartisan Communities Law, the first important piece of the federal weapons reform to clean both cameras in 30 years.
The law improved the background verification for buyers of weapons under 21 years of granting the authorities up to 10 business days to review the youth and mental health records of young weapons buyers, and made it illegal for someone to buy a weapon for someone who would fail a background verification. This legislation closed the so -called “boyfriend lake” that prevented people convicted of domestic abuse from buying a gun.
The law included $ 750 million to help States implement “red flag” laws to eliminate firearms from persons who consider themselves a danger to themselves or others, as well as other violence prevention programs. It also provided funds for a variety of programs aimed at underpinning the nation’s mental health apparatus and ensuring schools.
Willinger told ABC News that “less than asking Congress to appeal it,” there is little that the Trump administration can do about the law.
“It is possible that the administration can do things to maintain that money,” said Willinger. “I don’t know what room for maneuver they have to do that.”
