WASHINGTON, Nov 25 (Reuters) – The Justice Department plans to expand gun-rights protections with a new office in its civil rights division dedicated to enforcing the U.S. constitutional right to bear arms, according to plans shared with Congress and reviewed by Reuters.
The office, called the Second Amendment Rights Section, expects to open on December 4 and will be dedicated to investigating local laws or policies limiting gun rights.
https://www.justice.gov/crt/second-amendment-section
The section intends to execute the broad policy directions from a February executive order, opens new tab issued by President Donald Trump directing Attorney General Pam Bondi to comb the entire U.S. government to “assess any ongoing infringements” of gun rights.
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution enshrines the right to keep and bear arms, a deeply divisive issue in a nation where many conservatives avidly support gun rights while many liberals push for restrictions in the face of a high rate of gun-related deaths.
There have been 378 mass shootings this year as of November 25, according to the Gun Violence Archive, a comprehensive database of gun-related incidents in the U.S., which defines mass shootings as events where four or more people are killed or wounded, excluding the shooter.
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