Harmeet Dhillon May Be the Best Friend the Second Amendment Has in the Trump Administration Right Now

The new project I’ve got going in the Civil Rights Division, to the surprise of many people on both sides, is the Second Amendment. Who’s protecting the Second Amendment in the federal government? Prior Republican administrations haven’t paid a lot of attention to affirmatively doing that.

But in the wake of clear guidance from the the Supreme Court, protecting our right to own and use firearms in most circumstances throughout the United States, city after city, state after state are eviscerating those rights. They’re mocking the Supreme Court by passing laws that make it virtually impossible.

Colorado just passed a law that is extremely onerous and imposes a financial burden on gun ownership. California is wink-wink, nudge-nudge, allowing you to apply for concealed carry in multiple places and then they don’t staff the departments that do the interviews. D.C. … I came her to D.C., I have firearms, I’m a firearms owner. I inquired about the process. It’s months before I can get an appointment with the chief of police or with the police department to even apply to exercise my Second Amendment rights. Well I’m exercised about that. I’m not happy about that and I might be doing something about that.

New York has a host of laws that are different in upstate New York and different in New York city and they all violate the Constitution. So we will be working together to make this a focus of the Civil Rights Division…challenging state law that violates fundamental civil rights in the Civil Rights Division. 

— Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon

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  1. I look forward to the two most racist anti-civil rights white hoo moo sez uals governors, being charged with walking all over the human rights of American citizens.

    Your orientation does not protect you from being prosecuted.

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