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White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention Goes Dark

The Biden administration's White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention is no more—at least that is what it looks like.

The small staff of the office resigned in the days leading up to President Donald Trump's (R) inauguration, and within hours of President Trump taking office on January 20, 2025, the department was seemingly shut down, and its White House web page was taken offline.

While no official press release has been issued, the removal of the office's online presence is an encouraging sign the Trump administration has no interest in perpetuating the anti-gun office formerly overseen by none other than Kamala Harris. ...

A dog owner was shot by his pet after the dog jumped on the bed and set off a loaded gun, police said.
The incident involved a year-old pit bull named Oreo who "got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger," according to a police report.
The bullet grazed the victim's upper left thigh, and he was taken to the hospital in non-critical condition.
The victim's family reported that both he and Oreo are doing fine, and MPD advises gun owners to use gun locks.

The incident involved a year-old pit bull named Oreo who "got his paw stuck in the trigger guard and ended up hitting the trigger," according to a police report.

Privacy in Arms Should be a Second Amendment Norm




In the early republic part of the right to keep and bear arms consisted of the right to own arms without a government registration of arms. No registration of arms was known in law until the late 19th century.

Much of the conflict over the right to keep and bear arms has become a conflict over privacy. The most successful playbook in eliminating the right to own weapons in functioning democracies has been to create the power of governments to know what people have what weapons. The strategy has been this:

Claim governments can control crime by controlling who has access to weapons.

Claim to control access to weapons, governments have to know who has weapons.

Require registration of all legal weapons. Any weapons which are not registered are declared illegal.

Slowly or abruptly, such as "during an emergency" confiscate weapons, using the government registration lists.

Gradually teach future generations that having weapons is bad.

The claims of crime control are false. Criminals still get access to weapons, often much easier than law abiding citizens can. Crime has not decreased where gun registration has been implemented. It is the ordinary citizen who attempts to follow the law who is disarmed. Joyce Lee Malcolm documents this in the case of England and Wales.

One of the ways to disrupt this strategy is to prevent the government from registering weapons to individuals. Confiscation is much more difficult when lists of gun owners is not known.

Dealers have to keep track of what they sold to who including serial numbers. When they shut down (or ARE shut down and a lot were shut down during the Brandon admin) the FTA shows up and confiscates their records.