The announcement of a Second Amendment task force by the Department of Justice was met with joy by just about everyone on the gun rights side of the debate. For far too long, we’ve had to battle state and local governments as well as our federal government. Our tax dollars were being used against us at every turn, it seemed, and the announcement signaled an end to that.
It also signaled the beginning of something better. It was a moment when our rights would be protected with those tax dollars for a change.
But where to start?
Sure, the DOJ is already going after the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for the long delays in issuing concealed carry permits, but there are other offenders out there.
Now, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is launching an online petition seeking to get the task force to look at the 12 states who are the worst offenders.
From the press release:
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched an online petition calling on Attorney General Pamela Bondi to launch investigations into restrictive gun control laws in a dozen states, and “to ultimately seek injunctions and/or restraining orders against any and all state laws and local regulations which are determined to infringe and/or impair the exercise of rights protected by the Second Amendment.”
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said the petition will underscore the widespread public interest in the Committee’s request that Bondi direct the attention of her recently-announced “Second Amendment Task Force” at restrictive laws in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon and Washington.
“Response to our original request to Attorney General Bondi for 2A Task Force investigations in the states we suggested has been stunning,” Gottlieb said. “Hundreds of people from various states reacted to a report at Washington Gun Law, which has been viewed by more than 54,000 people. Similar coverage of our request at Guns & Gadgets has been viewed by more than 56,000 people and garnered almost 1,500 comments.
“Clearly,” Gottlieb continued, “embattled gun owners in the ‘Dirty Dozen’ states are crying out for relief from a pattern of penalization by state governments for crimes they didn’t commit. They are encouraged by the creation of AG Bondi’s 2A Task Force, and our online petition provides a platform by which they can make their case with the loudest, unified voice.”
The CCRKBA petition reminds the attorney general that “legislative attacks on our Second Amendment rights will continue unabated unless and until they are legally challenged.”
“A Task Force investigation of even one of the states on the ‘Dirty Dozen’ list would send a legal shot across the bow of lawmakers in all of those states to cool their jets where restrictive gun control is concerned,” Gottlieb said. “After years of incremental gun rights erosion by anti-gun politicians, the time has come to put them on the defensive and reveal just how constitutionally repugnant their gun prohibition crusade has become.”
Honestly, it’s time. The Task Force should have already kicked off with at least some of these states, if not all of the “Dirty Dozen,” already. We’ve got four years to get something done because there’s no guarantee that there will be a chance after the next presidential election. Court cases take time, too, so you’ve got to get them in and finished before January 20th, 2029, just to make sure the next administration can’t scuttle them.
That means being swift with kicking off investigations so that you’ve got time to gather all of the facts, then kick off the court cases.
It hasn’t happened yet, but it’s time that it starts.
The petition is at least a way to let Bondi know that we’re serious and that we want to see the action. Just making announcements isn’t going to be enough. We want results.
And trust me, I’ve heard from enough of you in recent weeks to know just how serious you are about results. While patience is needed, there needs to be movement, too.
Personally, I don’t expect a snap of the fingers and suddenly all of our Second Amendment rights are restored to where the Founding Fathers expected them to remain. I’d love it if that could happen, but it’s not going to, so expecting it would be stupid.
But I do expect to see some effort.
Sign the petition. Put the pressure on Bondi to make something happen.
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