Jeff Pittman

Housekeeping Our apologies for the late newsletter. Sometimes you get what you pay for… Administration FBI Director Kash Patel has been removed as the Acting Director of the BATFE and replaced by Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, who will continue to serve as Army Secretary while he also oversees the ATF as Acting Director. Apparently Patel had actually been […]

Trump Talk Last week, President Donald Trump issued an executive order aimed at “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” that established a D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force that will, among other things, collaborate “with appropriate local government entities to provide assistance to increase the speed and lower the cost of processing concealed carry license requests in the

Trump Administration We have reports that FBI/ATF Director Kash Patel is reassigning up to 1,000 ATF agents to the FBI. That’s more than a third of the entire ATF agent workforce and would presumably reduce ATF’s illicit harassment of legitimate FFLs and gun owners. But Patel himself denounced the story as “fake news” in an internal memo to ATF staff,

Trumped Robert Leider, a Scalia Law professor & Second Amendment legal expert, has officially replaced Pamela Hicks as ATF’s new Chief Counsel and is listed as Assistant Director. This looks outstanding. The Trump administration removed a ludicrous Biden-era surgeon general’s advisory on the alleged public health effects of “gun violence” and a similar webpage from the Department of Health and

Litigation The US Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals erroneously ruled this week in United States v. Rush that short-barreled rifles can still be restricted under the National Firearms Act. Fifth Circuit Gives Trump Opportunity to Act on Suppressors. Firearms Policy Coalition has asked the US Supreme Court to hear its Worth v. Jacobson case, agreeing with the State of Minnesota

Housekeeping My unavoidable circumstances fortunately went away (no defendants showed up), so here’s your 2A newsletter. ************************* ************************* Litigation SCOTUS case: Mexico v. US gunmakers. Mexico claims that because gun makers know that some percentage of their products will likely be used illegally, the gun makers are guilty of “aiding and abetting” their own Mexican criminal elements. One commenter noted

Housekeeping Due to unavoidable circumstances, there MAY not be a 2A newsletter next week. Trumped Civic Lesson The Department of Commerce stopped issuing gun export licenses around the beginning of the month, according to multiple sources. The department’s Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees firearms exporting, issued a hold without action order for all export licenses on February 5th.

Trumped 2/14/25 New York Post: “After Trump’s election victory in November, the US Army announced it shattered previous recruiting records when the service said it enlisted nearly 350 soldiers per day in December 2024, the most productive December in 15 years. The surge in recruitment comes after two consecutive years of missing recruitment targets.” Get Real I see that a