Opinion
NSSF®, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, is urging President-elect Donald Trump to take decisive action to disband the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and put an end to government-funded efforts to infringe upon the Constitutionally-guaranteed Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens.
This office, installed under President Joe Biden, never addressed criminal misuse of firearms. Instead, it squandered taxpayer dollars and employed former gun control lobbyists to minimize the American rights to keep and bear arms and propose policies to harass and damage the American firearm and ammunition industry.
President-elect Trump might consider replacing this office with one dedicated to the advancement and preservation of the Second Amendment.
“President-elect Trump has the ability to stand strong with law-abiding Second Amendment supporters and wipe away this unprecedented abuse of government authority that has been used as a blunt instrument against rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President & General Counsel. “Nowhere else, within the U.S. Government, are taxpayers forced to fund efforts to denigrate their rights protected by the law. This office was established to appease the special-interest gun control lobby and donors. The Biden-Harris administration has used this office to attempt to justify their unconstitutional and whole-of-government attacks on Second Amendment rights and the industry that makes those rights possible to exercise. This office must no longer exist after January 20, 2025.”
The Biden-Harris administration established The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September 2023 under the direct supervision of Vice President Kamala Harris as the “gun control czar.” From this office, the Biden-Harris administration promulgated policy positions that are egregiously counter to the rights of law-abiding citizens. Staffed by Stefanie Feldman as Director, she once boasted on X that President Biden would defeat firearm manufacturers that he once labelled “the enemy” by overturning the Protection of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act (PLCAA).
She posted, “As president, he’ll defeat them again. And, he’ll repeal the non-sensical liability protection for gun manufacturers.”
Greg Jackson serves as Special Assistant to the President and Deputy Director, who was previously a gun control advocate for the far-left George Soros-backed Tides Foundation Community Justice Action Fund.
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is also staffed by Rob Wilcox, a former lobbyist for antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. Everytown supports bans on entire classes of firearms and bankrupting the firearm and ammunition industry through frivolous lawsuits.
The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention never addressed the issues of criminal misuse of firearms, instead had fingerprints on President Biden’s ill-advised attack on funding for hunter safety courses in public schools, which was blocked by Congress, and is embroiled in a scandal that it colluded with Everytown for Gun Safety to force GLOCK, Inc., to alter handgun designs and coordinated with the City of Chicago to bring forth a frivolous lawsuit when the company refused to acquiesce to the corrupt pressure. The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is under investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee. To date, this office, along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), have yet to comply with subpoenas issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).
About The National Shooting Sports Foundation
NSSF is the trade association for the firearm industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of thousands of manufacturers, distributors, firearm retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen’s organizations, and publishers nationwide. For more information, visit nssf.org
Here in Maryland, Cecil County, Elk Neck State Forest Shooting Range the RIFLE and SHOTGUN has been shut down for about ONE YEAR. I have paid my hard earned money to be able to shoot there. I sent a e-mail, using the e-mail at the bottom of the screen, inquiring WHY the range was closed. The government e-mail site came back as UNDELIVERABLE. When I call, NO ONE answers the phone. This appears to be part of the Barry Soetoro-00bama/J. Biden/K. Harras regime’s ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL MULARKY!! OPEN THE RANGE!!!
An attack on any part of the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights, is an attack on the ENTIRE Constitution. An attempted end run around any provision of the Constitution is Sedition if not Treason. There is a legal way to amend the Constitution. Illegally establishing a government agency to strip Americans of their Constitutional Rights is something that I can’t excuse. Biden, Harris, and every member of the President’s Cabinet should be in a Federal prison awaiting trial by the end of January, 2025.
Don’t disband it, fill it with people from GOA, NAGR, etc. who will recommend things like hardening schools, national reciprocity, and other common sense practices.
If the NSSF really wanted to help Trump do pro gun things, they’d stop endorsing anti gun, or nominally pro gun candidates.
what we need is a pro 2A rights office in the DOJ much like their Civil Rights team that prosecutes people and organizations for violating our Civil Rights. Our rights as recognized by our Second Amendment are also civil rights and should be defended with just as much enthusiasm as our other rights.
Go after NJ, CA, NY, CT, MA, ME, IL, MD and other states and jurisdictions that infringe upon our rights. Put some teeth into the Heller, McDonald and Bruen decisions by SCOTUS. Lock up these politicians and bureaucrats and toss away the key
Come January 21, 2025 every single leftist that has ignored Congressional subpoenas needs to be treated the same as Peter Navarro and Steve Bannon. And since there’s precedent for decades old allegations being treated as relevant, it’s only fair that Eric Holder spends some quality time in a Federal Penitentiary for his numerous past transgressions.