Questions about Trump's Second Amendment Executive Order
Cato Daily Podcast
Caleb Brown
4.6 • 949 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Cato Daily podcast for Friday, February 21st, 2025. I'm Caleb Brown. The Trump |
| 0:10.6 | administration has yet to formally weigh in on a lawsuit filed by the government of Mexico |
| 0:15.0 | against Smith & Wesson. But the Trump White House has issued a notable executive order with |
| 0:20.5 | respect to firearms and Second Amendment rights. |
| 0:23.7 | It's a strange and telling state of affairs, according to Cato's Patrick Eddington. |
| 0:28.0 | He describes both the executive order and the risks of a judgment against Smith & Wesson. |
| 0:36.1 | Well, this is one of the many executive orders issued by Mr. Trump over the course of the first three weeks or so of his now second term in office. |
| 0:48.7 | And this one specifically is entitled Protecting Second Amendment Rights. |
| 0:53.4 | And it goes through essentially a laundry list of things that he wants the |
| 0:56.8 | Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to take a look at and report back to him within 30 days |
| 1:03.0 | regarding essentially all presidential and agency actions during the Biden administration, |
| 1:10.2 | rules promulgated by the Bureau of Alcohol, |
| 1:13.1 | tobacco, and firearms during the same period, agencies, plans, orders, and actions, and so on and so |
| 1:21.2 | forth. And of course, you know, he's already eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, at least so far as I'm aware, I believe I heard that earlier this week. |
| 1:33.2 | So he's already kind of taken a whack at those kinds of things. |
| 1:37.6 | And then he also wants Bondi to take a look at agencies' classifications of firearms and ammo, and the processing of applications to make |
| 1:46.9 | manufacturer, transfer, or export firearms. Now, the thing that struck me about this, Caleb, |
| 1:53.7 | was actually Section 5, or Paragraph 5 of Section 2 of this Executive Order order and it states as follows the position is |
| 2:03.5 | taken by the united states in any and all ongoing and potential litigation that affects or could |
| 2:09.7 | affect the ability of americans to exercise their second amendment rights now the reason that i i draw |
| 2:16.4 | your attention to that i draw everyone's attention to that, |
| 2:19.8 | is that so far this session, the Supreme Court, has only granted, essentially, certiority, |
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