Trump Administration DOJ Supports the Biden Frame or Receiver Rule
BY Herschel Smith
1 month ago
FPC.
April 9, 2026 — On February 7, 2025, President Trump issued Executive Order 14206, “Protecting Second Amendment Rights.” It sounded promising, but it has since proven to be little more than empty rhetoric.
The following month, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a disappointing decision upholding the ATF’s “Frame or Receiver” rule, a relic of the Biden Administration. Rather than dismissing the appeal or withdrawing the Biden ATF regulation before the Court ruled, the Trump Administration chose to continue defending the gun control rule, allowing the Court to issue a decision that preserved President Biden’s regulatory overreach.
In May 2025, FPC provided the Trump White House, DOJ, and ATF with a complete, print-ready proposed rule to address the Court’s decision following months of dialogue with key officials. But the Administration has since sat on its hands.
Adding insult to injury, the Administration informed us yesterday that “At this time, the [Trump Administration] has decided to maintain the current definition of firearm ‘frame’ and ‘receiver’ contained in that final [Biden Administration] rule.”
Whoever is steering the Trump Administration is aiming the Titanic directly at the iceberg.
To put this latest disappointment in context, FPC has provided the Trump Administration, the White House, DOJ, and ATF, with dozens of lawful actions that could be taken to protect peaceable gun owners and the right to keep and bear arms. Nearly all of those proposals have been ignored.
Instead, in case after case, the Trump Administration has adopted authoritarian, anti-American positions to restrict Second Amendment rights and prosecute those who exercise them. Worse still, the Administration is actively fighting to restrict or eliminate the injunctive relief that FPC and other organizations obtain to protect people from government abuses.
In short, rather than championing gun owners, the Trump Administration is actively working against them.
The Trump Administration needs to clean house. Indeed, draining the swamp should start in the Trump White House—and it should not stop there, because “Protecting Second Amendment Rights” takes more than a few empty words in a throw-away Executive Order.
Remember men, this is allegedly the most pro-2A administration in history.
On April 15, 2026 at 7:00 am, MN Steel said:
I remember when 3 NYC democrats were the front-runners in the Great Race For The Face of the USA.
You can’t go Full Globalist until it is “your final turn at leadership” due to having to pretend to be re-elected.
It’s all so fake and gay.
On April 15, 2026 at 9:11 am, george 1 said:
I guess Netanyahu doesn’t like guns. Maybe we should lobby Bibi and ask him to allow Trump to defend the 2A. We could probably get a message to him by contacting any of Trump’s advisers.
On April 15, 2026 at 12:38 pm, Paul B said:
Looks to me like the deep state is stilling playing. Until the entrenched administration is abolished we will see stuff like this happening.
On April 18, 2026 at 6:04 pm, X said:
“I guess Netanyahu doesn’t like guns.”
He doesn’t. Back in the 1990s when I was in grad school, I read a book written by him about “terrorism.” He predicted that it was coming to the U.S. and specifically recommended we abolish the Second Amendment.
I wish I could remember the title so I could cite the exact quote.
It drives me nuts to hear retarded American Fudds talk about how we have the 2A so that when the Nazis seize control of the government and load the Jews onto boxcars we’ll all grab our guns and save them.
LOL.
The Jews are going to be the ones having the government take YOUR guns and load YOU onto boxcars to gulag like they did in the USSR.