In 2020, the Tenth Amendment Center pointed out that the Trump administration was no friend of gun rights.
In 2019, Trump bragged, “At my direction, the DOJ banned bump stocks. Last year we prosecuted a record number of firearms offenses.”
The president didn’t back off his commitment to enforcing gun laws in 2019. For the third straight year, the Trump administration has ramped up enforcement of unconstitutional federal gun control, according to the latest data released by the ATF.
Last year, the ATF investigated 35,790 firearms cases. That was on par with the 35,839 firearms cases the agency investigated in 2018. This after the ATF significantly increased the number of cases it pursued during Trump’s first year in office.
In 2016, the final year of the Obama administration, the ATF investigated 31,853 firearms cases. During Trump’s first year, the agency investigated 35,302. That was 3,349 more firearms cases than under Obama, a 10.81 percent increase.
A lot of Trump supporters were self deluded and fooled themselves into thinking that Trump was one of them. In reality, Trump was all about himself and his need for self aggrandizement. Imagine bragging about prosecuting gun owners.