NSSF urges Trump to disband White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention

NSSF, the Firearm Industry Trade Association, is urging President-elect Donald Trump to take decisive action to disband the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and put an end to government-funded efforts to infringe upon the Constitutionally guaranteed Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. This office, installed under President Joe Biden, never addressed criminal misuse of firearms. Instead, it squandered taxpayer dollars and employed former gun control lobbyists to minimize the American rights to keep and bear arms and propose policies to harass and damage the American firearm and ammunition industry.

Trump might consider replacing this office with one dedicated to the advancement and preservation of the Second Amendment.

“President-elect Trump has the ability to stand strong with law-abiding Second Amendment supporters and wipe away this unprecedented abuse of government authority that has been used as a blunt instrument against rights that are protected by the U.S. Constitution,” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF senior vice president and general counsel. “Nowhere else within the U.S. government are taxpayers forced to fund efforts to denigrate their rights protected by the law. This office was established to appease the special-interest gun control lobby and donors. The Biden-Harris administration has used this office to attempt to justify their unconstitutional and whole-of-government attacks on Second Amendment rights and the industry that makes those rights possible to exercise. This office must no longer exist after January 20, 2025.”

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The Biden-Harris administration established the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September 2023 under the direct supervision of Vice President Kamala Harris as the “gun control czar.” From this office, the Biden-Harris administration promulgated policy positions that are egregiously counter to the rights of law-abiding citizens. Staffed by Stefanie Feldman as director, she once boasted on X that President Biden would defeat firearm manufacturers that he once labeled “the enemy” by overturning the Protection of Lawful Commerce In Arms Act (PLCAA). She posted, “As president, he’ll defeat them again. And, he’ll repeal the nonsensical liability protection for gun manufacturers.”

Greg Jackson serves as special assistant to the president and deputy director, who was previously a gun control advocate for the far-left George Soros-backed Tides Foundation Community Justice Action Fund.

The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is also staffed by Rob Wilcox, a former lobbyist for anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety. Everytown supports bans on entire classes of firearms and bankrupting the firearms and ammunition industry through frivolous lawsuits.

The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention never addressed the issues of criminal misuse of firearms, instead had fingerprints on President Biden’s ill-advised attack on funding for hunter safety courses in public schools, which was blocked by Congress, and is embroiled in a scandal that it colluded with Everytown for Gun Safety to force GLOCK Inc. to alter handgun designs and coordinated with the City of Chicago to bring forth a frivolous lawsuit when the company refused to acquiesce to the corrupt pressure. The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is under investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee. To date, this office, along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), have yet to comply with subpoenas issued by House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.).

Republished with permission from NSSF.

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