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March For Our Lives: Trump's Gun Rights Office Betrays Survivors Who Fought for Prevention
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Administration opens office to expand gun access less than a year after gutting White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention
WASHINGTON, D.C., December 4, 2025 — Today, the U.S. Department of Justice is reported to be opening a new “Second Amendment Rights Section” within the Civil Rights Division dedicated to expanding gun ownership rights. This comes less than a year after the Trump administration eliminated the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention (WHOGVP) — the first-ever federal office dedicated to preventing gun violence and supporting communities after shootings, which March For Our Lives fought for years to establish.
Before it was dismantled by the Trump Administration, the WHOGVP mobilized the full force of the federal government to save lives, helping drive the largest single-year drop in homicides on record. Since then, the administration has systematically dismantled gun violence prevention efforts, diverting federal resources from preventing gun violence, gutting ATF enforcement against rogue gun dealers, and terminating violence prevention programs proven to save lives.
Statement from March For Our Lives Executive Director and Parkland survivor Jackie Corin:
“Seven years ago, after 17 of my classmates and teachers were murdered at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, there was no federal office to help our community recover. We spent years pushing for the creation of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, and its work saved lives across the country.
Today, instead of strengthening the federal response to gun violence, the Trump administration has dismantled that office and replaced it with one designed to make it easier to put guns in dangerous hands. Creating an office to expand gun access while communities continue to bury their children is a profound betrayal of every survivor who demanded change.
Young people will not back down. We refused to give up when people told us that an Office of Gun Violence Prevention would never exist, and we refuse to give up now.”
For more information about MFOL’s work, visit marchforourlives.org. To support our mission during this critical time, please donate at marchforourlives.org/donate.
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