{"id":106950,"date":"2025-01-23T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106950"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T14:56:04","slug":"106950","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=106950","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Skips Guns in Flurry of Day One Executive Orders<\/a><\/p>\n

Gun policy did not factor into the new President\u2019s immediate priorities.<\/p>\n

Shortly after President Donald Trump officially swore in for his second term on Monday, he quickly signed\u00a0<\/span>dozens of sweeping executive orders<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to walk back several Biden-era policies and fulfill multiple prominent campaign promises. His actions included declaring a \u201cnational energy emergency,\u201d a bid to end birthright citizenship, withdrawal from the World Health Organization and Paris Climate Agreement, a\u00a0full pardon for roughly 1,500 January 6th defendants<\/a>, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Left out of the policy blitz was anything having to do with advancing gun-rights priorities or rescinding the Biden Administration\u2019s gun-control policy achievements. The Trump Administration also left the Second Amendment and gun policy\u00a0off of its\u00a0revamped \u201cpriorities\u201d page<\/a>\u00a0on the White House website.<\/span><\/p>\n

The omission of any gun policy action comes despite the President\u00a0pledging speedy reversals<\/a>\u00a0of former President Biden\u2019s executive orders to gun-rights supporters on the campaign trail earlier this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated my very first week back in office,\u201d Trump told a crowd of NRA members at the group\u2019s Great American Outdoor Show last February.<\/p>\n

His decision not to do so on day one places him on the clock to make good on those promises to gun voters the same way he did to immigration hawks and other key MAGA constituencies. If he chooses not to, it could be\u00a0another sign<\/a>\u00a0that guns are low in the pecking order amongst the second Trump Administration\u2019s prerogatives.<\/p>\n

For instance, though some of the President\u2019s Day One<\/span>\u00a0executive orders were sweeping representations of longstanding Trumpian concerns, others were relative novelties, including\u00a0<\/span>directives<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska\u2019s Denali mountain and\u00a0<\/span>promote<\/span><\/a>\u00a0beautiful architecture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, some of the moves Trump pledged to gun-rights advocates were already accomplished by the time he got to the Oval Office on Monday. During a speech at the NRA annual meeting last May, he\u00a0promised NRA members<\/a>\u00a0he would fire Steven Dettelbach, Biden\u2019s chosen director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), on \u201cday one.\u201d Before he could do so, however, Dettelbach preemptively\u00a0tendered his resignation<\/a>\u00a0effective January 18.<\/p>\n

Others may be happening without any formal publicity. Shortly after his reelection in November, the National Shooting Sports Foundation\u00a0called on<\/a>\u00a0Trump to dismantle the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, an executive body\u00a0created by his predecessor<\/a>\u00a0to promote gun-control measures. Though he did not issue any public directive on the matter, the office\u2019s website appears to\u00a0have been taken offline<\/a>\u00a0shortly after his inauguration. Although, many other sections of the White House website also appear to be down and it\u2019s unclear what the status of the office is today.<\/p>\n

The Trump White House did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Still, the President appears yet to have taken action to spur some of the more far-reaching instances of rolling back Biden\u2019s gun policies. These more closely-watched options could include orders directing the ATF to rescind agency regulations that\u00a0<\/span>banned so-called ghost gun kits<\/span><\/a>, reclassified\u00a0<\/span>pistols equipped with stabilizing braces<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as short-barreled rifles, and expanded criteria for who\u00a0<\/span>must\u00a0<\/span>be federally licensed<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>to<\/span>\u00a0sell used guns adopted under the prior administration that have rankled gun-rights advocates and resulted in prolonged courtroom fights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

While the road to rescinding those rules will likely be\u00a0long and bumpy<\/a>, initiating the process could be as simple as a stroke of the President\u2019s pen\u2013in the same way they were first set into motion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump Skips Guns in Flurry of Day One Executive Orders Gun policy did not factor into the new President\u2019s immediate priorities. Shortly after President Donald Trump officially swore in for his second term on Monday, he quickly signed\u00a0dozens of sweeping executive orders\u00a0to walk back several Biden-era policies and fulfill multiple prominent campaign promises. His actions … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106951,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106950\/revisions\/106951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}