The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has launched an online petition to Attorney General Pam Bondi in an effort to stress support for Second Amendment Task Force investigations starting with 12 states recently listed by the committee, and dubbed by pro-rights commentators as the “Dirty Dozen.”
The petition to Bondi, announced Wednesday, is the newest step in CCRKBA’s effort to put restrictive gun control laws in several states under a friendly Department of Justice microscope. CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb identified the states where his group believes the most egregious constitutional violations are occurring, in a letter to Bondi April 14. The petition, which was posted online early Wednesday, reads as follows:
CCRKBA ASKS BONDI TO ‘UNLEASH’ 2A TASK FORCE
Since news of Gottlieb’s letter broke, gun owner reaction has been overwhelming. YouTube reports at Guns & Gadgets and Washington Gun Law have garnered tens of thousands of views and more than 2,000 comments split between the two.
According to Survival World, “What’s so fascinating about this situation is how it flips the script. Usually, the federal government is the one enforcing restrictions. But here, citizens and advocacy groups are calling on that same government to rein in local abuses. It’s a unique moment where grassroots action could potentially force the DOJ to enforce the Constitution, not bypass it.”
“Clearly,” Gottlieb said Wednesday, “embattled gun owners in the ‘Dirty Dozen’ states are crying out for relief from a pattern of penalization by state governments for crimes they didn’t commit. They are encouraged by the creation of AG Bondi’s 2A Task Force, and our online petition provides a platform by which they can make their case with the loudest, unified voice.”
