President Donald Trump's fiscal 2027 budget proposal was written to affirm his "commitment to definitively protect the Second Amendment and other constitutional rights of citizens."
It proposes $1.4 million for a new office within the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice dedicated to protecting Second Amendment rights from unlawful infringement on the right to bear arms.
The Civil Rights Division aims to pursue cases that definitively enshrine Second Amendment rights in perpetuity, the budget reads.
The budget also includes $4.8 million for the Office of the Pardon Attorney's Firearm Rights Restoration Initiative, which provides a path for law-abiding citizens to regain their Second Amendment rights after fulfilling their obligations to the justice system.
Trump's fiscal budget aims to continue to support efforts by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to reverse regulations imposed by prior administrations that they say "have effectively criminalized law-abiding gun ownership."
Under the Biden administration, the ATF carried out initiatives that critics say targeted gun-owning Americans and undermined the Second Amendment.
These included requiring near-universal background checks; subjecting otherwise lawful gun owners to up to 10 years in prison for failing to register pistol braces that make it possible for disabled veterans to use guns; imposing restrictions on homemade guns; and revoking federal firearms licenses.
The Trump administration is also committed to reprioritizing resources toward traffickers of illegal guns fueling violent crime, such as MS-13 gang members.
Gun Owners of America cheered the budget, noting it affirms Trump's pro-Second Amendment agenda by supporting pistol brace ownership, supporting gun manufacturing at home, and opposing Biden's "near-universal background check" rule.
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