“President Trump Signs EO to Protect 2A Rights Orders DOJ to review ’21-’25 actions that may infringe on 2A rights. Directs a plan to safeguard lawful gun ownership. Investigates agency overreach, firearm rules & enforcement policies. SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.”
“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,” President Donald Trump declared Friday in a highly anticipated executive order. “Because it is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans, the right to keep and bear arms must not be infringed.”
Such a presidential action stirs the hopes of gun owners who have been wondering when Donald Trump would acknowledge the unequivocal promises he’s made to them on the campaign trail.
“Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated on my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day,” he had pledged to an on-its-feet, approval-roaring crowd attending NRA’s Feb. 2024 Presidential Forum at the Great American Outdoor Show in Harrisburg’s Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex. Yet it’s taken almost three weeks since his inauguration to even mention the Second Amendment, leading some of us, including Gun Owners of America, to ask “Why?” when he’d found time to address many priorities that, while important, could hardly be deemed “foundational to maintaining all other rights.”
By David Codrea
