{"id":117327,"date":"2026-06-16T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117327"},"modified":"2026-06-16T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T23:45:16","slug":"117327","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=117327","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Panic Setting In As Administration Moves to Bolster Americans\u2019 Gun Rights Advance.<\/a><\/p>\n

In the last 17 months, the Trump administration has delivered win after win for the nation\u2019s most ardent gun-rights advocacy groups, chipping away at dozens of federal regulations. While many of these efforts target regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives \u2014 the law enforcement agency within the Justice Department tasked with regulating the nation\u2019s millions of firearms \u2014 the administration\u2019s work stretches across the executive branch.<\/p>\n

Supporters of tighter gun restrictions have pilloried the Trump administration, saying officials are acting recklessly and could endanger the public with a wholesale rollback of regulations. But gun rights advocates who portrayed the Biden administration as trampling on the Second Amendment have praised the current administration\u2019s actions as a needed corrective.<\/p>\n

Trump vowed\u00a0on the campaign trail\u00a0to be a pro-Second Amendment president and pledged that, under his leadership,\u00a0\u201cno one will lay a finger on your firearms.\u201d He said he would roll back Biden-era ATF regulations and received the backing of the big gun rights groups.<\/p>\n

Critics, however, have said that the Trump\u2019s administration\u2019s push to unwind gun regulations contradicts the president\u2019s tough-on-crime political agenda. And, they say, the efforts could make it easier for potentially dangerous people to access firearms. \u2026<\/p>\n

[ATF general counsel Robert] Leider has been working on the regulations for more than a year. The plan had been to announce them July 4, 2025, at an Independence Day celebration, The Post previously reported.<\/p>\n

But [Acting Attorney General Todd] Blanche has said the proposed changes took longer than expected to complete because lawyers had to scrupulously review them to ensure they passed legal muster. Justice Department officials expect them to face court challenges.<\/p>\n

Because the Trump administration is making these changes through the regulatory process \u2014 and not by legislation passed in Congress and signed into law \u2014 the next administration could reinstate the scrapped rules. The goal, Justice Department officials said, is to ensure that the regulations do not run afoul of laws so that they can remain intact.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were very careful on how we did the rules,\u201d Leider said. \u201cCongress has decided that certain people cannot be trusted with firearms. ATF has to enforce those congressional judgments. It is not the agency\u2019s job to amend Congress\u2019s criteria in an effort to predict who will become violent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 Perry Stein in\u00a0Inside the Trump administration\u2019s rapid rollback of gun regulations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Panic Setting In As Administration Moves to Bolster Americans\u2019 Gun Rights Advance. In the last 17 months, the Trump administration has delivered win after win for the nation\u2019s most ardent gun-rights advocacy groups, chipping away at dozens of federal regulations. While many of these efforts target regulations from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and … 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":[79,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117327","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=117327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117328,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117327\/revisions\/117328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}