While Bondi has overseen internal reform, she has not yet publicly released the full report detailing every gun control regulation imposed during the Biden administration — a key part of President Trump’s executive order issued in early 2025.
The goal of the virulently anti-gun Biden administration was to find as many FFLs as possible in violation of ATF’s regulations and shut them down. The agency’s inspectors yanked the tickets of literally hundreds of FFLs over the years. Now that abuse has finally come to an end.
Under Trump’s executive order, AG Bondi and ATF Acting Director Patel are now expected to vacate all Biden-era ATF rules and release a full report on the damage done by Biden’s gun control agenda. Gun owners didn’t elect President Trump to tinker around the edges of federal gun control. They elected him to dismantle it.
Every single PPSh-41 that Adamiak owned had its receiver cut in half. There was no way any of the gun parts kits he owned would shoot “automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.”
Patrick Adamiak has appealed, but the Justice Department is now taking the position that the Supreme Court’s VanDerStok ruling supports its stance and is asking the Court of Appeals to affirm the conviction.
The truth is that ATF has never been about stopping crime, it’s been about harassing gun owners, revoking FFLs, and expanding gun control. If politicians were serious about public safety, they’d be prosecuting criminals, not disarming law-abiding Americans.
The ruling from the high court said any firearms kit that is “capable of being readily….converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive” is covered under the Gun Control Act.
Franklin Armory has been battling the characterization of their Reformation as a short barrel shotgun by the ATF for years, but they’ve now secured a resounding win. Despite ATF’s best efforts, the Reformation is back and ready for the market.
Despite the hysteria from the gun control industry, relief under restoration of gun rights was available from 1968 to 1992, so restarting the program under the DOJ isn’t breaking any new ground.
“Apparently everybody who signed that letter slept through last year’s stunning revelation that the FBI’s initial report of a 1.7 percent decrease in violent crime from 2021 to 2022 was quietly adjusted to show a 4.5 percent increase.
