Gun rights opponents are up in arms over the recent and dramatic pivot at the Department of Justice (DOJ) on gun rights. While much work remains, there is already a seismic shift in how the department handles Second Amendment-related issues.
Last year’s creation of the Second Amendment Section within the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division was welcomed by those who cherish freedom. However, Sens. Peter Welch (D-VT) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) last week composed a letter blasting the office.
Lawmakers complained that the DOJ is finally defending Second Amendment rights
Welch and Durbin are diehard supporters of the radical anti-gun agenda, and they did not hold back on their criticism.
“Since President Trump took office, you have decimated the Division’s non-partisan workforce and changed the Division’s enforcement priorities to serve the President’s agenda in lieu of our federal civil rights laws,” the pair claimed in a letter to Dhillon. “The creation of the Second Amendment Section is another example of this profound retreat from the core mission of the Civil Rights Division.”
If that mission is to protect civil rights, and it is, how does defending the Second Amendment run counter to what the Civil Rights Division was established for? The plain answer is that it doesn’t.
DOJ policy in 2025 underwent a much-needed course correction
However, it changes the downward trajectory the DOJ was on under the previous administration. Make no mistake, its mission was to whittle the freedom to keep and bear arms down to a shell of what the Bill of Rights intended.
The woman in charge of the DOJ’s new focus offered clarity to her congressional detractors.
Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon struck back at critics who believe the Second Amendment should be abolished—not defended.
“The United States Supreme Court has had seven times the number of decisions on First Amendment cases versus Second Amendment,” Dhillon explained to counter arguments that undue status has been afforded to gun rights. “So, these rights do not defend themselves. It requires constant vigilance from private lawyers to help protect this important right, and I’m really proud of it.”
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