President Trump Quietly Rolling Back Obama-Era Gun Controls

[qmcorps]

While rolling back onerous Obama-era environmental and business regulations, President Donald Trump has also been quietly dropping gun controls which were either put in place or at least prolonged by the Obama administration.
On February 28 Breitbart News reported that Trump signed the repeal of Obama’s Social Security gun ban; a ban which empowered the Social Security administration to strip away the Second Amendment rights of Social Security beneficiaries without due process. Days later, Trump’s Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke squashed Obama’s lead ammunition ban for federal lands and waters.

According to McClatchy, Trump’s administration has been quietly working to do away with other Obama-era firearm regulations as well.

For example, “agencies narrowed the definition of ‘fugitive'” which, in turn, limits the number of people barred from gun possession because they are included in a fugitive database. Additionally, Trump “officials have also signaled that they may no longer defend the Army Corps of Engineers’ ban on carrying loaded firearms and ammunition on federal lands.”

The repeal of another ban–the Obama-era gun ban for military veterans–is also on the move in Congress, as is the Hearing Protection Act; an Act which will deregulate firearm suppressors by removing them from the purview of the National Firearms Act (1934). During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump Jr. signaled that his father would sign a bill deregulating firearms if such legislation made it to his desk.


In addition to the things Trump and his administration have done to reduce firearm regulations, one cannot overlook the importance of nominating and securing the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Throughout the campaign Trump pledged to defend the Second Amendment and on October 9, 2016, he promised to nominate a justice would protect gun rights from “people like Hillary Clinton.”


Trump spoke in favor of the ruling in District of Columbia v Heller (2008) during the presidential campaign and Gorsuch did the same during his confirmation hearings. On April 7 Gorsuch was confirmed by a vote of 54 to 45.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...-gun-controls/

[STBear]

The ban on guns on ACE lands would be nice.

[Carnes]

This is our chance. We need to push for the concept of liberty that was present when the 2A was drafted. We might not get full unlimited access to weapons of 'moderate' destruction, but I'm pretty sure that was the intent, and now is the time to push for it.

I'm sure some of the Trump haters are choking on their crow a bit right now... that's okay. We'll have to see how this plays out. As of right now, Trump is clearly doing his part. Now it is time for us to do our part.

[gghbi]

Repealing the ban on guns on ACE lands would be nice.

FIFY

[ungawa]

Why doesn't he start allowing imports of all the stuff banned under executive order by presidents since Reagan?

[littlefitz]

Why doesn't he start allowing imports of all the stuff banned under executive order by presidents since Reagan?

Hopefully he gets there. Hasn't there been talk of that already?

[wanneroo]

It's all well and good, but ungawa has a point and I'm expecting even bigger things like some NFA and GCA reform or repeal.

[qmcorps]

Why doesn't he start allowing imports of all the stuff banned under executive order by presidents since Reagan?

Why not! It's not like the American Gun and Ammo manufacturing folks would mind.

[TSimonetti]

Why doesn't he start allowing imports of all the stuff banned under executive order by presidents since Reagan?

The domestic firearms industry is already hurting, so maybe he doesn't want to open the floodgates on that just yet.

[markshere2]

How many guns in the USA?

How many gun owners would buy one or more suppressors for each caliber?

How many dollars in manufacturing, distributing and retailing would that pump into the economy?
It would be YUGE!

Let's see... 22LR, .223, 9mm, .40, .45, .30 Cal...I would buy 5 or 6 easy, if they were priced reasonably.