Opinion
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is congratulating President Donald Trump for quickly following through on a promise to shut down the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, which was a thinly disguised Biden administration gun control operation.
“This gun control bureaucracy had no place in the White House, and it should never have been created,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
“Its supporters are having fits on the Internet, which convinces us that President Trump’s swift action was correct. It was already reported that the staff of this operation resigned prior to the transition of power, which suggests they knew what was coming, so they abandoned ship to avoid being fired.”
The office’s web page has gone dark, and in the aftermath, The Trace, a gun control advocacy news publication, appears to acknowledge that it was really a “policy outfit and coordinating hub” for what amounted to Biden administration gun control efforts, and perhaps taking credit for things it could not possibly have accomplished.
“For example,” Gottlieb noted, “the gun prohibition lobbying group Brady United is claiming in a news release the Office of Gun Violence Prevention ‘helped drive a 13.5 percent reduction in homicides in 2023,’ but the office wasn’t even created until September of that year. Let’s just call that a stretch of credulity. The Brady bunch also says Biden’s anti-gun advocacy operation supported the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives shut down hundreds of so-called ‘rogue’ gun dealers and helped stop hundreds of illegal gun purchases. One would think the Trump administration just murdered Superman with a kryptonite golf club.
“In reality,” he said, “Biden was trying to advance his gun control schemes with what amounted to a shadow government office because Congress rejected his extremist agenda of gun bans, gun registration and other Second Amendment infringements. Fortunately, this gun control office and the Biden administration bureaucrats at the Justice Department and ATF who were cooperating with the plan are now gone.
“We look forward to watching the new administration completely reverse priorities on violent crime,” Gottlieb added.
“Instead of ratcheting down on honest gun owners and small retailers, the Trump team appears far more determined to focus on violent criminals, drug dealers and gangs, getting them off the streets and behind bars.”
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
