It’s always nice to be the bearer of good news, and if you support 2A rights (and since you’re reading this, I’ll assume that you do), you’ll find this to be very good news.
That news? That it looks like the firings at the ATF have started.
Now, before we get too excited, only one has been announced, but it’s not a minor one. It’s actually a pretty big deal. Aldgra Fredly writes,
Trump signed an executive order on Jan. 20 to “halt existing policies designed to curtail the clear right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.”
The order directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to conduct a review and propose a plan of action to eliminate regulations that infringe on Second Amendment rights.
On Feb. 21, Bondi removed ATF Chief Legal Counsel Pamela Hicks from her post, just days after Trump ordered the termination of all U.S. attorneys appointed during the previous administration.
Hicks confirmed her dismissal in a social media post, saying that she had received official notice from the attorney general of the United States informing her of her removal.
Bondi had pledged during her confirmation hearing to put an end to what she called “the partisan weaponization” of the DOJ.
There’s no question that the ATF, and the DOJ as a whole, were weaponized against legal gun owners and 2A supporters. It was a disgusting use of government lawfare to a level above anything that I’d previously seen in my lifetime, so, removing partisan weaponization of the DOJ is a welcome thing.
That weaponization, when it comes to the ATF, came through Hicks’s hands since she was prosecuting law-abiding Americans for the ATF. It seems pretty clear that she needed to go.
If you want a playful take on the whole situation, you can watch Liberty Doll’s video about that below.
No matter what your position on the ATF and the DOJ is in general (personally, I think that the ATF should be abolished), we should all agree that no government agency should be used in a partisan manner to attack other people over political disagreements.
And the firing of Hicks seems like a good step in the right direction.