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US Dept. of Justice Creates 2nd Amendment Task Force

US Attorney General Pamela Bondi is creating a Second Amendment Enforcement Task Force “principally charged with developing and executing strategies to use litigation and policy to advance, protect, and promote compliance with the Second Amendment,” as stated in her memo posted April 9, 2025 on the Department of Justice website.

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A federal law might have bearing on the word “enforcement” in the task force’s title. 18 U.S.C. § 242 makes it a crime for anyone acting “under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom” to willfully deprive another person of rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Over 86% of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs Support National Concealed Carry Reciprocity ]

“The prior administration placed an undue burden on gun owners and vendors by targeting law-abiding citizens exercising their 2nd Amendment rights,” Bondi says. “The Department of Justice’s new 2nd Amendment Task Force will combine department-wide policy and litigation resources to advance President Trump’s pro-gun agenda and protect gun owners from overreach.”

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Posted on 04/09/202505/11/2025

Over 86% of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs Support National Concealed Carry Reciprocity

Imagine if your driver’s license was not officially recognized in USA states other than your own. That would mean every time you drove across state lines, you’d be violating those states’ laws. Now imagine if some states accepted your state’s license, but they added on traffic laws that your state didn’t have. That would mean you’d have to know each state’s particular laws as you drove through them, or you could be ticketed or jailed.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Important Judicial Decisions Regarding Self-Defense Law ]

That’s the current state of affairs in the lawful act of concealed carrying of defensive firearms. The USA consists of a complex patchwork of concealed carry legislation state-by-state that unsuspecting responsible law-abiding armed self-defenders can easily be ignorant of and in danger of unwittingly and innocently violating.

US Circuit Judge Video Records Expert Gun Tutorial Dissent to Anti-2nd Amendment Court Ruling

US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke The San Fransisco-based US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 7-4 March 20, 2025 to uphold California’s ban on standard-capacity ammunition magazines that hold more than 10 cartridges.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, 20 Reasons to Concealed Carry a Defensive Firearm ]

The case was a Second Amendment challenge to California’s 2016 law that bars possession of such magazines.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Senior US District Judge Declares Gun Magazine Capacity Limits Unconstitutional ]

The US Supreme Court in 2021 remanded the lawsuit back to the Ninth Circuit following the high court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, US Supreme Court Affirms Right to Carry Arms in Public for Self-Defense ]

The Ninth Circuit’s latest ruling says California’s ban does not violate Second Amendment rights because such magazines are not “arms” within the US Constitution’s meaning, nor are they protected accessories.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Important Judicial Decisions Regarding Self-Defense Law ]

But US Circuit Judge Lawrence VanDyke demonstrated the logical reason for his dissent by video recording himself handling several personal handguns and explaining their mechanisms to educate viewers on why his judicial colleagues wrongly upheld the California law.

Wyoming Repeals Gun-Free Zones in Most Public Places

Effective July 1, 2025, Wyoming Bill HB0172 is now the law of that state, removing dangerous gun-free zones in K-12 schools, colleges, most public buildings, the state capitol, and most public places.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Criminals and Terrorists Overwhelmingly Select Gun-Free Zones For Mass Attacks in Public Spaces ]

Gun-free zones are dangerous because research shows that 94% of mass shootings over a 69-year period occurred in “gun-free zones,” locations where signs are posted stating weapons are not allowed to be carried on the property, which only responsible law-abiding citizens abide by and criminals see as magnets for their murderous intent since they know their killing will go unchallenged.

[ Read the SemperVerus article, Brief Answers for People Who Are Against the 2nd Amendment ]

The new law states that anyone lawfully carrying concealed weapons in Wyoming may carry a concealed weapon in the following places: