# 2025-02636: President Directs Review to Bolster Second Amendment Protections Nationwide

2025-02636, Protecting Second Amendment Rights, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-02-12, effective 2025-02-07 (as of 2026-11-04).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02636
- As of: 2026-11-04
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-02636
- Title: Protecting Second Amendment Rights
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 9503
- Published: 2025-02-12
- Effective: 2025-02-07
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: no
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-11-04

## In one line

President Directs Review to Bolster Second Amendment Protections Nationwide

## Summary

This new order makes sure the government protects your right to own and carry guns, a key part of American freedom. The Attorney General has 30 days to review recent rules and actions that might limit these rights and then create a plan to fix that. This affects gun owners, manufacturers, and agencies, with changes coming soon but no new costs announced yet.

## Effects PRIA read

- 30-Day Attorney General Review: benefit, low. The Attorney General must, within 30 days of February 7, 2025, examine executive-branch orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions to assess any ongoing infringements on Second Amendment rights and present a proposed plan of action to the President. The review…
- Review of DOJ/ATF Rules and Licensing: benefit, low. The Attorney General's required review must, at minimum, examine DOJ rules (including Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rules), agencies' classifications of firearms and ammunition, the processing of applications to make, manufacture, transfer, or export firearms, and agency acti…

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## Sources
- [2025-02636 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/12/2025-02636/protecting-second-amendment-rights)
- [2025-02636 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-02-12/pdf/2025-02636.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-02636 (as of 2026-11-04).