WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) blasted the Biden administration’s attempts to infringe on law-abiding citizens’ Second Amendment rights, praised President Trump’s recently issued Executive Order, and discussed his upcoming request to the Trump administration to reverse course and rescind unlawful firearm regulations imposed under former President Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Excerpts of Sen. Cornyn’s remarks are below, and video can be found here.

“The President’s Executive Order comes on the heels of four years of President Biden’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, otherwise known as ATF, from trampling on Americans’ Second Amendment rights.”

“In April of 2022, the Biden administration decided to target law-abiding citizens who exercised their Second Amendment rights to build their own firearms with the so-called ‘ghost gun’ rule.”

“The Biden administration’s rogue ATF continued down this path in January of 2023, when they finalized the so-called ‘pistol brace’ rule.”

“In April of 2024, the Biden administration’s ATF finalized a rule known as the ‘engaged in the business’ rule. This was an attempt to rewrite a statute that was passed by the Congress and signed into law by the President of the United States.”

“I’ve long been a defender of Second Amendment rights for the 31 million people that I have the honor of representing in Texas.”

“This is why I introduced the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow people with concealed carry privileges to exercise those privileges in other states that allow concealed carry.”

“In addition to introducing this legislation, I will very soon send a letter to Deputy Director of the ATF, encouraging him to work with President Trump on rescinding many of these regulations in order to reverse the Biden administration’s reckless attacks on the Second Amendment.”

“While the last four years have been a lot of headache for law-abiding citizens who simply want to exercise their constitutional rights, I have no doubt that President Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi will right this ship.”

“I look forward to working with both of them to reform and redirect the energies of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to safeguard rather than to attack the Second Amendment rights of American citizens.”