With Pam Bondi out as Attorney General, no-compromise gun rights groups are already making their preference crystal clear: Harmeet Dhillon is the choice. And unlike the usual political jockeying in Washington, this push isn’t coming from establishment insiders, it’s coming from grassroots organizations that have spent years fighting the gun confiscation agenda head-on.
Bondi’s Exit Opens the Door for Real Change
For many gun owners, Bondi’s tenure represented a familiar frustration. While running the Department of Justice, her record was seen as a mixed bag at best, with lingering defenses of federal gun control policies and a lack of urgency in dismantling the anti-gun bureaucracy embedded throughout DOJ. That’s why her removal is being viewed not as a setback, but as a long-overdue opportunity.
Why Harmeet Dhillon Is the Clear Upgrade
Harmeet Dhillon represents something very different. She has built a reputation as a legal fighter who . . .
- Treats the Second Amendment as a civil right
- Has taken on anti-gun policies in court
- Has helped shift DOJ toward going on offense, not just playing defense
Gun rights groups like the National Association for Gun Rights and Texas Gun Rights are rallying behind her because they see someone who won’t manage decline, but will actively push to restore rights.
A Legal Team Already Aligned
Dhillon’s potential elevation wouldn’t happen in a vacuum. White House Chief Counsel Dave Warrington and Harmeet Dhillon both left Dhillon Law to join the Trump administration at the same time, signaling a coordinated effort to place strong constitutional attorneys in key roles.
Barry Arrington, former Chairman of the Texas Gun Rights Board, recently stepped down to join the DOJ’s Second Amendment Section. These aren’t isolated moves. They’re part of a broader shift — one that suggests the executive branch is finally beginning to take the Second Amendment seriously at a structural level.
Not a Silver Bullet, But a Major Step Forward
At the same time, gun rights leaders are making it clear: replacing the Attorney General alone isn’t a silver bullet. The Department of Justice is still packed with layers of the entrenched bureaucracy, thousands of anti-gun holdovers, and institutional resistance to reform
But here’s the difference: Harmeet Dhillon has already been working to dismantle that system from within. And if she moves up, whoever steps into her current role in the Civil Rights Division would be positioned to continue that work — potentially with fewer obstacles.
Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt didn’t mince words:
Gun owners don’t need another Attorney General who’s going to ‘manage’ the Second Amendment’s decline. We need a proven fighter, and that’s exactly what Harmeet Dhillon has been inside the DOJ. President Trump has a real opportunity here to appoint someone who will take the fight directly to the gun confiscation agenda and start cleaning house.
The Push Is On
With momentum building, groups like NAGR and TXGR are actively encouraging President Trump to make the call. Because for gun owners who have watched too many “Republicans” fall short, this moment is about more than just filling a position.
It’s about whether the Department of Justice will finally have leadership willing to defend the Second Amendment without compromise.
“Harmeet Dhillon represents something very different. She has built a reputation as a legal fighter who . . .
* Treats the Second Amendment as a civil right“
While I’m pleased to hear that there is someone more proactive than Bondi was, I want to point out that our RKBA is not a civil right and never has been, but a Natural one, and should be treated as such. A right viewed through a civil lens can be legislated, and the USC very clearly states (in a 27-word section that any 4th grader can grasp, but we’re talking about politicians here) that Guv may not infringe on it. The word “infringe” has a specific meaning, and the 2A doesn’t say it’s okay to mess around with the edges of this right while avoiding the core meaning…it says Guv may not even touch the fringes whatsoever. This means mag cap bans, ammo limits, prohibiting certain accessories, transport bans, et al.
Not a civil right. A Natural one. Declared in writing by the Founders as given to us by the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God”.
Someone please explain to me how my comment I posted is triggering moderation…again (insert really fatigued eyeroll here)…geez.
A Question I Haz,
They probably won’t post this:
But, S N W reminds me of a person turning the hot water on an hour before taking a shower and then wondering why it is cold when they enter!
The Trump DOJ has filed another anti-2a brief. Harmeet Dhillon must step in. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses.
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The New Bullfrog M2 Turns Expensive Drone Threats Into $10 Taxpayer Wins.
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Britain 2026: Children Now Too Terrified to Walk Home Without Official Escorts.
“Remember when kids could walk to school safely, unsupervised, and parents never gave it a second thought? It wasn’t all that long ago that many kids did just that: Strolled innocently to school, safe in the knowledge that they lived in a country that had the rule of law, and barring a few publicized instances, there wasn’t any real trouble with it.
Now, though, in the United Kingdom, things on the streets, namely ‘knife crime’, have gotten so bad that British schoolkids have to be escorted to and from school by chaperones.
Yes, really.
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Adult chaperones are to take children to and from school to protect them from violence in knife-crime hotspots.
Up to 250 schools in the areas worst affected by knife crime will be identified by the Home Office using new mapping technology, which can pinpoint the most dangerous streets and when pupils are most at risk.
Adult volunteers from charities and teachers will be recruited to act as chaperones, replicating a scheme in Chicago, which cut crime on targeted routes by 14 per cent and helped students cross gang boundaries.
So, in the event of an attack, what are these ‘adult volunteers from charities and teachers’ to do? Scream? Blow a whistle? Sure, attacking any adult is a little more of a problem for a knife-wielding goblin than attacking a child, but the Brits, we might note, have effectively removed any practical means of self-defense from the subjects.
The goblins, on the other hand, carry any weapons they can get their hands on.
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