President Donald Trump (R) returns to the White House today in what can only be described as a victory for freedom, law-abiding Americans and the Second Amendment. He will do so with Vice President JD Vance (R), another champion of the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
“A second term for President Trump is a victory for the Second Amendment. NRA members recognize that we are the torchbearers for liberty, and we are in a generational fight for freedom. With President Trump, we had a powerful champion in the White House who always fought for our constitutional right to keep and bear arms,” wrote the NRA Institute for Legislative Action (ILA).
Trump’s return to Washington, D.C., comes not a moment too soon as four years of now former President Joe Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala Harris (D) have been nothing but bad news for the Second Amendment freedoms of law-abiding Americans who cherish this right.
Already, Trump has voiced his support for various pro-freedom policies, including national concealed-carry reciprocity, and he has also promised to roll back the anti-gun attacks of the previous administration.
“Every single Biden attack on gun owners and manufacturers will be terminated on my very first week back in office, perhaps my first day,” said Trump.
During Trump’s first presidency, he nominated U.S. Supreme Court justices who have records of interpreting the U.S. Constitution as it was originally written. He also nominated numerous judges throughout the lower courts and designated gun stores and shooting ranges as “essential” businesses at the outset of the COVID pandemic. One thing that didn’t occur in Trump’s first term was the passage of any bill that would further infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.
“Having been president once before, Trump already has a track record in this area, and that record is exemplary. For four years, at least, Americans can be assured that no judge who buys the conspiracy theory that the Second Amendment is meaningless will make it on the federal courts,” wrote America’s 1st Freedom contributor Charles C. W. Cooke.
Perhaps equally as important as Trump’s victory is the defeat of Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), whose potential administration promised nothing but an ominous future for the Second Amendment.
Harris’ track record clearly showed outward hostility toward the Second Amendment. During her 2020 presidential campaign she said that if Congress did not pass her preferred gun-control policies within 100 days, she would take executive action to circumvent the legislative branch. “Upon being elected, I will give the United States Congress 100 days to get their act together and have the courage to pass reasonable gun safety laws. And if they fail to do it, then I will take executive action,” said Harris.
And, in her role as San Francisco district attorney, Harris openly opposed the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision D.C. v. Heller (2008), which dismantled D.C.’s handgun ban. She also claimed in 2007 that the government can walk right into your home to enforce its agenda—the Fourth Amendment notwithstanding.
Incredibly, Harris claimed on the campaign trail that she, not Trump, would defend the Second Amendment, despite the mountain of evidence to the contrary. This includes her issues page on her campaign (which is still up at the time this was being written) stating her desire to ban commonly owned semi-automatic firearms and “high-capacity” magazines. It also praises her tenure as head of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, an office staffed with gun-control activists.
With this in mind, it was clear that freedom was on the ballot last November. Trump spoke about this at the 2024 NRA Leadership Forum in Dallas, Texas, last year: “Let there be no doubt, the survival of our Second Amendment is very much on the ballot. You know what they want to do ... . The Second Amendment … is under siege. But with me, they’d never get anywhere. We need the [Second Amendment] for safety. Because you know the bad guys are not giving up their guns.”
The outcome of November’s election was a resounding victory for freedom and almost certainly could not have been achieved without the tireless work of NRA members.
“The Second Amendment, our very freedom, was on the ballot and NRA members stepped up and delivered a victory for freedom,” wrote NRA Executive Vice President and CEO Doug Hamlin. “In this election, the American electorate—with NRA members being a key factor—voted to stop the destruction of our core principles, especially our First and Second Amendment rights.”
All this is to say, “Welcome back, President Trump.”
