DOJ promises ‘a lot more action’ on gun rights with new Second Amendment enforcement section
BY Herschel Smith
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Department of Justice (DOJ) official Harmeet Dhillon announced that her agency is unveiling a gun rights-focused section on Monday, promising Americans that “a lot more action” on gun rights enforcement will be taken.
Dhillon, who works as an assistant attorney general for the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division, said that her division had started a Second Amendment section this month.
“I’m really excited about this,” said Dhillon. “For the first time, the DOJ Civil Rights Division and the DOJ at large will be protecting and advancing our citizens’ right to bear arms as part of our civil rights work.”
“As Attorney General Pam Bondi has said, the Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and I couldn’t agree more with my boss,” she added.
According to Dhillon, the department will fight a variety of state and local courts on gun issues, particularly difficulties around concealed carry permits.
“Some of the things we’re seeing, and that is going to be the focus of our work around the country, includes multi-thousand-dollar costs for citizens to apply for concealed carry permits,” she said.
“Other jurisdictions are having unreasonably long delays. Other jurisdictions are outlawing guns that should be protected by the Second Amendment under the recent Supreme Court precedent.”
She also emphasized that gun rights “equalizes the ability of those of us, women, people with disabilities, and others who might otherwise be more vulnerable to be able to protect ourselves.”
None of that is correct. I’m not interested in the DOJ using its power to ensure permitting schemes are faster. I want the DOJ to go to court all over American and argue that permitting schemes are unconstitutional and immoral.
Here’s the bottom line for me about this new department.
I … don’t … care.
If you had wanted to prove that you are defending the 2A, you shouldn’t have recently defended the NFA in court. And you should have ensured that Trump pressured gun controllers Cornyn and Thune to get rid of the NFA for SBRs and suppressors. The House was willing, but the controllers weren’t. And Trump didn’t care.
Everything else is just smoke and mirrors.
I told you we would never forgive you for your treachery concerning the bill, ugly, awful bill. I was being truthful when I said that.
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On December 10, 2025 at 5:24 am, Joe Blow said:
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED.
I didn’t bother to read any of that, because they can take all of it and SHOVE IT UP THEIR ASS!!!
On December 20, 2025 at 12:12 pm, Scott in Phx said:
Well, this will be unpopular of course, but the right recognized by the 2A is that of open carry, not concealed carry
At the time of the adoption of the Constitution and the 2A some states had restrictions on concealed carry and states were added right after that that had specific state constitutional provisions allowing for the regulation of concealed carry
And no one, but no one, at the time claimed the 2A made any of those provisions unconstitutional
The Founders (in general) had no problem with regulating concealed carry
So, we may not like that, but for the courts to extend the right to concealed carry would be judicial activism
So, really the only thing the DOJ can do is to try to make the state concealed carry laws as “shall issue” as possible
In the meantime we need to get more states to go full permit less carry for both open and concealed, the more we have the more we can argue that the right has been extended to concealed carry by popular decision
And get the Congress (or the courts, as they did with gay marriage, yes that is judicial activism) to force the states to recognize concealed carry licenses from any other state. Not because I want to go get a CC license in AZ but because CC reciprocity will do more to kill the restrictive state gun control regimes than anything
On December 31, 2025 at 11:35 am, Ned said:
Isn’t this the same DOJ that takes the position that certain knives are not protected because of possible criminal misuse? FedGov prefers weapons infringements.