Gun Rights and the Second Amendment in Trump’s First 100 Days

While campaigning in 2024, Donald Trump promised to defend the Second Amendment. Gun rights advocates say the president has kept that promise in the first 100 days of his second term, and that he began fulfilling it on Jan. 21, the day after he was inaugurated. That’s when the website for President Joe Biden’s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention went dark. The office was a crown jewel of Biden’s gun control plan, along with the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which he signed on June 25, 2022. Biden touted the law as the most significant gun legislation signed in 30 years. It expanded background checks, provided funding for mental health services and community-based violence prevention initiatives, and added to the roster of people restricted from owning firearms....