Acting U.S. Attorney General Talks 2A Changes, DOJ Plans | Gun Talk
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
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Summary
At the 2026 NRA Annual Meetings, Gun Talk’s Tom Gresham is joined by Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche to discuss major developments affecting the Second Amendment—and what gun owners can expect next.
Blanche shares insight into sweeping regulatory changes currently in the works at the Department of Justice, aimed at restoring Second Amendment rights and rolling back burdensome restrictions on gun owners, manufacturers, and FFLs. He also discusses ongoing legal battles, potential Supreme Court implications, and the administration’s long-term strategy to create lasting change.
From regulatory reform to defending gun rights nationwide, this conversation offers a rare inside look at what’s happening behind the scenes in Washington—and what it means for the firearms community.
- DOJ regulatory overhaul underway
- Potential major changes for FFLs
- Supreme Court battles impacting gun laws
- Long-term vision for Second Amendment protections
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| 0:00.0 | All right. It's a real treat right now. We're at the course of the NRA annual meetings in Houston, |
| 0:04.8 | and unbelievably to us, I am so glad Todd Blanch is here. He is the acting U.S. Attorney General. |
| 0:12.1 | Now that Pam Bondi is out, you're filling that slot now? I am. Maybe permanently, we don't know. |
| 0:18.0 | We do not know. Okay. And as you say, with Donald Trump in charge, you never know, right? That's right. That's right. That's why we love them. All right. So tell everybody a little bit about your background. So I'm from Colorado originally. I lived in New York for a long time. My family, my wife's family, has been in the gun manufacturing business for 40 years. |
| 0:39.0 | They manufacture magazines, checkmate industries. |
| 0:43.8 | So my father-in-law started it in 1968, 69. |
| 0:49.3 | And so I've been part of this fight, struggle, everything that we've been going through as a nation for really for 40 years. |
| 0:59.7 | So you're part of the gun industry. |
| 1:02.0 | I am. |
| 1:02.7 | Yes, I am. |
| 1:03.3 | Okay. |
| 1:03.5 | But now you're in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice. |
| 1:06.6 | I am. |
| 1:07.2 | Yes. |
| 1:07.6 | So how do you put those together? |
| 1:09.3 | I know people are saying, well, why can't you fix everything by the end of work today? |
| 1:14.1 | So it takes a while. It's a great question. So the important thing for everybody to realize is that the way this country works is regulations are put in place and it takes time to to unwind them. And that's a bad fact, but it's true. And so what we're doing and what |
| 1:30.3 | President Trump did on January 20th, he issued an executive order. And it said, very simply, |
| 1:34.8 | we are going to restore Second Amendment rights. Okay. So easy. Let's do it. And here we, and, but let me tell you, |
| 1:41.9 | what we have done at the Department of Justice, we hired a law professor who clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas, one of the best Second Amendment justice we've ever had. |
| 1:52.2 | He is really the only Second Amendment law professor, I think, out there. He's a genius. We hired him and we said, okay, we want you to go and rework every single regulation consistent with this president's directive. And that takes a lot of time. But I will tell you, and I'm going to say it tonight when I get a chance to speak to a lot of other members, that we are days away from releasing that. They have been approved by the president on down, and it's going to change everything. |
| 2:20.6 | What are you doing? |
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