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I watched brandon herrera's video recently about how hed dismantle the ATF from within and it left me wondering why anyone thinks trump is pro gun. Hes a new york conman and an aspiring dictator, doesnt exactly scream gun nut to me.

So i read up on project 2025 to see if any gun stuff is in their agenda and found this.

"Congress passes intentionally vague laws that delegate decision-making over a given issue to a federal agency. That agency’s bureaucrats—not just unelected but seemingly un-fireable—then leap at the chance to fill the vacuum created by Congress’s preening cowardice. The federal government is growing larger and less constitutionally accountable—even to the President—every year.

l A combination of elected and unelected bureaucrats at the Environmental Protection Agency quietly strangles domestic energy production through difficult-to-understand rulemaking processes;

l Bureaucrats at the Department of Homeland Security, following the lead of a feckless Administration, order border and immigration enforcement agencies to help migrants criminally enter our country with impunity;

l Bureaucrats at the Department of Education inject racist, anti-American, ahistorical propaganda into America’s classrooms;

l Bureaucrats at the Department of Justice force school districts to undermine girls’ sports and parents’ rights to satisfy transgender extremists;

l Woke bureaucrats at the Pentagon force troops to attend “training” seminars about “white privilege”; and

l Bureaucrats at the State Department infuse U.S. foreign aid programs with woke extremism about “intersectionality” and abortion.

3 Unaccountable federal spending is the secret lifeblood of the Great Awokening."

I find it ironic that in the section talking about cutting down federal agencies powers to act and provision their funding without congress, they dont even mention the ATF.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago

Anyone who had any fantasy that Trump supports gun rights was proven wrong with Trumps infamous “Take the guns first, go through due process second”.

Anyone that makes the argument that Trump is pro second amendment is simply lying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

No authoritarian regime would tolerate its citizens being armed.