President Trump issued an order aimed at rolling back President Biden's gun policies, including regulations on ghost guns, expanded background checks on gun sales, and tougher regulatory oversight of lawbreaking gun dealers, The Trace reports. A Trump executive order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to review within 30 days “any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens.” Trump lists seven categories for review, including all of Biden’s executive actions as well as any gun-related action he directed agencies to take under his watch. The remaining categories list Biden policies that drew ire from gun rights advocates, including the National Rifle Association and the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the gun industry’s trade group. Gun reform advocates criticized the order. Mark Collins of the gun reform group Brady said that if the attorney general’s review is objective, her findings would support the policies’ constitutionality. “They were perfectly in line with Second Amendment rights, and we’re hoping that at the end of this review, there might be some restraint and objectivity,” Collins said. “Maybe they’re planning to roll back everything, which is a really bad idea especially considering that we just went through the sharpest drop in gun homicides in modern American history. It seems wild that you would roll back all the policies that made that possible.”
The gun industry took issue with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’s zero tolerance policy or “enhanced regulatory enforcement,” in which ATF sought to revoke the licenses of gun dealers that committed serious regulatory violations, like selling guns without background checks or falsifying records. The review will include the Biden administration’s crackdown on “ghost guns,” untraceable firearms that can be assembled at home from kits purchased without background checks. The Justice Department took steps to close the so-called gun show loophole, which allowed some gun sellers to avoid federal licensing rules and sell guns without conducting background checks. White House to cut public health funding are causing chaos and uncertainty. If the Justice Department declines to defend the current federal gun laws in court, it would significantly raise the chances of their being ruled unconstitutional. Trump tasked Bondi with combing through publications and documents of the now-defunct White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which Biden in 2023 to coordinate a government-wide, public health approach to gun violence prevention. It was panned by gun rights groups as an anti-gun political move.