It’s a good day for gun owners when the Department of Justice (DOJ) is on the Second Amendment’s side, and a new report offered encouraging news about the battle to preserve the right to keep and bear arms.
The Washington Times reported Tuesday that Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon is preparing a coordinated legal attack on unconstitutional state gun laws.
In a recent interview, the administration official declared her goal to erase all state laws that interfere with the free exercise of gun rights.
DOJ is recruiting pro-2A attorneys to fight unconstitutional state and local laws
“I’m hiring up and staffing our Second Amendment section,” Dhillon told national radio host Dana Loesch. “And so, if anyone watching this is a lawyer who’s passionate about these issues, or they’re passionate about them in general, we can train them up for these issues, but we’ve actually hired some great career lawyers here who come from the Second Amendment community.”
Unlike previous administrations, the 2026 DOJ actively recruits pro-2A citizens to combat the virulent anti-gunners who so actively oppose individual freedoms.
Dhillon may be climbing another rung on the DOJ ladder
Part of that successful effort came from attorneys for the National Association of Gun Rights (NAGR).
“We’re really excited to have that expertise on board,” Dhillon added. “We want to develop that expertise, because when this administration is done, we’d like to have a whole cadre of lawyers who are trained in enforcing these laws all over the country.”
Dhillon is hardly a Johnny-come-lately to the Second Amendment cause. She is the founder of the Center for American Liberty and a longtime activist for gun rights.
She is also largely responsible for the DOJ’s new Second Amendment Section, which she helped create late last year. Dhillon proclaimed that gun rights are not secondary to any others and that it was a new day in her department.
“For the first time, the DOJ Civil Rights Division and the DOJ at large will be protecting and advancing our citizens’ right to keep and bear arms as part of our civil rights work,” Dhillon said.
Among the positive responses to the revealing interview was that of Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
He said there is much work to be done to eradicate state laws infringing gun rights.
“We’re calling this a progress report on what the Trump administration announced last year regarding Second Amendment scrutiny on local gun regulations,” Gottlieb proclaimed in a press release. “Based on what we know so far, it looks like progress is being made, and it can’t happen too soon for America’s beleaguered gun owners, especially in jurisdictions such as California, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia.”
As for Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General is strongly rumored to be up for nomination as U.S. Associate Attorney General. President Donald Trump (R) recently dismissed former AG Pam Bondi amid criticism from some quarters that the DOJ talked a good game but was not doing enough to protect gun rights.
Todd Blanche is the acting AG while the former Associate AG resigned.
Dhillon expanded on her announcement of the DOJ’s ramped-up efforts to protect gun rights by lauding ongoing actions from her agency.
She noted that the DOJ’s case against the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department is in the discovery phase. Some potential gun owners reported waits of up to three years to obtain a permit to carry.
The DOJ is also active in the ongoing challenge against Hawaii’s controversial gun control regime. Wolford v. Lopez, which seeks to dismantle the Aloha State’s sweeping prohibitions on carrying firearms, is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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