About this episode

The episode discusses the DOJ's gun policy performance and Jeanine Pirro's legal actions that may impact gun-rights activists.

This week, we're looking at how the Department of Justice (DOJ) has performed on gun policy during the second Trump Administration and why Jeanine Pirro's newest legal filing could change the review. To examine the DOJ's track record, we have the Second Amendment Foundation's Kostas Moros on the show. He has been willing to defend the administration's overall approach to gun policy and to criticize moves he believes are likely to produce significant setbacks. He argued that the DOJ has actually been as pro-gun as any in modern history. In fact, he said a lot of the disappointment from online gun activists stems from bad expectation setting. He argued the DOJ was never likely to stop defending all federal gun laws, nor would that move guarantee the kind of gun-rights wins some believe it would. He also said the administration's moves to sue localities over alleged violations of the Second Amendment, as well as their efforts to back gun-rights challenges, even up to the Supreme Court, create a positive case for why it has been a good ally to gun-rights activists. Still, Moros admitted the DOJ has been pretty all over the place in its arguments at times. And he further criticized a…

People in this episode

Host: Stephen Gutowski

Guest: Kostas Moros

Topics covered

• gun policy
• Department of Justice
• Second Amendment
• Trump Administration
• legal filing
• gun-rights activism

Keywords

• gun policy
• DOJ
• Jeanine Pirro
• Second Amendment
• Kostas Moros
• Trump Administration
• gun-rights
• legal filing
• magazine bans

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Department of Justice, Second Amendment Foundation

Places: Washington, DC

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