President Donald J. Trump’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal seeks to end numerous gun controls implemented by ATF (the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) during Joe Biden’s term in office.
Page 44 of the budget proposal contains the heading, “Protects the Constitutional Rights of American Citizens.”
Immediately after the heading, it says, “The Budget affirms the President’s commitment to definitively protect the Second Amendment and other constitutional rights of citizens.”
It states that protection of Second Amendment rights “includes investing $1.4 million for a new office within the Civil Rights Division solely dedicated to protecting Second Amendment rights from unlawful infringement on the right to bear arms and pursuing cases to definitively enshrine those rights in perpetuity…”
The Biden-era gun controls come into view about halfway through the paragraph, where it says:
The Budget continues to support the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) efforts to reverse regulations
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