Two of the nation’s leading gun rights organizations are encouraging President-elect Donald Trump to have his attorney general appoint an assistant whose only job will be to go after state and local Second Amendment abuses including “laws designed specifically to infringe on the rights of honest firearms owners.”
Their goal is to “make the Second Amendment great again.”
The Second Amendment Foundation and its sister organization, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said that they are hoping Trump will instruct the new attorney general early next year “to name a special assistant whose job would be to protect Second Amendment rights.”
“In the past,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “the Department of Justice has taken action against various other civil and constitutional rights abuses. It is time for the DOJ to prosecute violations of the Second Amendment and federal laws including the Firearms Owners Protection Act, by state and local governments. State and local governments that adopt laws designed specifically to infringe on the rights of honest firearms owners or discourage people from exercising their right to keep and bear arms for legitimate reasons, including self-defense should be held accountable.”
