The Second Amendment-protected right to keep and bear arms was under constant threat of potential and actual infringements during the prior Biden-Harris administration, and President Donald Trump vowed repeatedly on the campaign trail to take action to defend that cherished right of the American people.

On Friday, Trump took a major step toward fulfilling that promise with an executive order that tasked Attorney General Pam Bondi to conduct a thorough review of all of the prior administration's anti-Second Amendment efforts, the Tampa Free Press reported.

The move was met with cheers and cautious optimism from much of the pro-2A community while the anti-2A gun control groups wailed and moaned that all of their subversive work to unconstitutionally restrict the gun rights of Americans was on the verge of possibly being undone.

Taking action to protect the Second Amendment

In an executive order on Friday, titled "Protecting Second Amendment Rights," President Trump declared, "The Second Amendment is an indispensable safeguard of security and liberty. It has preserved the right of the American people to protect ourselves, our families, and our freedoms since the founding of our great Nation. Because it is foundational to maintaining all other rights held by Americans, the right to keep and bear arms must not be infringed."

As such, Trump gave Attorney General Bondi 30 days to "examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies (agencies) to assess any ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens."

The AG's findings would then be shared with Trump's domestic policy adviser and presented to the president with a "proposed plan of action" to help "protect the Second Amendment rights of all Americans."

Reviewing everything gun-related that happened under Biden

President Trump's order specifically tasked AG Bondi to look into "All Presidential and agencies’ actions from January 2021 through January 2025 that purport to promote safety but may have impinged on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens."

That includes all rules and regulations promulgated by the DOJ and ATF regarding firearms and federally licensed firearms dealers, all "plans, orders, and actions" for new rules and regulations, and all reports and internal documentation of former President Biden's White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.

Also included was a review of the legal positions taken by the U.S. government in current and pending Second Amendment-related litigation, the classifications of various firearms, ammunition, and accessories, and the regulatory process surrounding permitting to "make, manufacture, transfer, or export firearms."

Mixed reactions to Trump's order

According to The Reload, President Trump's order was greeted with cautious optimism from the pro-gun community about the potential rollback of Biden's gun control measures, albeit tempered with some skepticism about AG Bondi's less-than-ideal history of previously supporting gun control restrictions like "red flag" laws and age restrictions.

Still, setting aside those reservations about Bondi's commitment to gun rights, a top executive of Gun Owners for America said, "Gun owners fought hard to elect a president who would take a sledgehammer to Biden’s unconstitutional gun control policies, and today, President Trump proved he’s serious about that fight."

Likewise, a senior executive for the National Rifle Association noted, "Promises made to law-abiding gun owners are being kept by President Donald J. Trump."

Meanwhile, anti-2A gun control groups were outraged and predictably issued an outcry of opposition about how Trump would make the nation less safe by rolling back some or all of the restrictions on gun rights they'd managed to achieve under Biden.

If there is any major drawback to Trump's order, however, it is that it is too narrowly constrained to just review the gun control infringements that occurred over the previous four years, and hopefully there will be a subsequent order at a later date that expands the review to encompass all of the infringements that have occurred under Democratic and Republican presidents alike over the past century or more.