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Stephen Gutowski
September 19, 2025
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has paused reports on gun seizures and rejected a request for detailed information on a marque effort of the Trump Administration’s recent takeover of city policing.
On Monday, the MPD responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from The Reload by declining to produce the requested records of more than 320 gun recoveries during the month-long operation. That decision came after the department stopped posting weekly roundups of all the firearms it had confiscated, along with the circumstances surrounding those seizures, shortly after the takeover started. Although, a spokesperson did say that MPD plans to begin publishing those roundups in the near future.
The delayed transparency could inflame critics of the administration’s efforts to confiscate guns during the takeover. Prominent gun-rights groups have spoken out against some of the firearm seizures, especially those directed at mere possession crimes. Without further information, though, it has been unclear just how many of the hundreds of guns confiscated were taken as a result of standalone offenses that upset those activists, whom President Donald Trump has sought support from throughout his time in office, and how many were related to more serious crimes.
“It is deeply troubling that any administration would deploy federal agents that should not exist to enforce immoral and unconstitutional laws that should not exist, on behalf of an agency that should not exist,” Firearms Policy Coalition President Brandon Combs told The Reload. “If the Trump Administration is serious about protecting Second Amendment rights then it should start actually doing it.”
“The National Association for Gun Rights has serious concerns about what we’re seeing in Washington, DC right now,” Taylor Rhodes, the group’s director of communications, told The Reload. “ATF agents have no business doing neighborhood patrols, stopping citizens over cigarettes or a case of beer in the back seat. This is the same agency that gave us Ruby Ridge, Waco, and have fought against law-abiding gun owners every chance they have, and now they’re walking the streets of our nation’s capital like a domestic police force.”
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Stephen Gutowski
September 19, 2025
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has paused reports on gun seizures and rejected a request for detailed information on a marque effort of the Trump Administration’s recent takeover of city policing.
On Monday, the MPD responded to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from The Reload by declining to produce the requested records of more than 320 gun recoveries during the month-long operation. That decision came after the department stopped posting weekly roundups of all the firearms it had confiscated, along with the circumstances surrounding those seizures, shortly after the takeover started. Although, a spokesperson did say that MPD plans to begin publishing those roundups in the near future.
The delayed transparency could inflame critics of the administration’s efforts to confiscate guns during the takeover. Prominent gun-rights groups have spoken out against some of the firearm seizures, especially those directed at mere possession crimes. Without further information, though, it has been unclear just how many of the hundreds of guns confiscated were taken as a result of standalone offenses that upset those activists, whom President Donald Trump has sought support from throughout his time in office, and how many were related to more serious crimes.
“It is deeply troubling that any administration would deploy federal agents that should not exist to enforce immoral and unconstitutional laws that should not exist, on behalf of an agency that should not exist,” Firearms Policy Coalition President Brandon Combs told The Reload. “If the Trump Administration is serious about protecting Second Amendment rights then it should start actually doing it.”
“The National Association for Gun Rights has serious concerns about what we’re seeing in Washington, DC right now,” Taylor Rhodes, the group’s director of communications, told The Reload. “ATF agents have no business doing neighborhood patrols, stopping citizens over cigarettes or a case of beer in the back seat. This is the same agency that gave us Ruby Ridge, Waco, and have fought against law-abiding gun owners every chance they have, and now they’re walking the streets of our nation’s capital like a domestic police force.”
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DC Police Withholding Full Details About Gun Seizures During Federal Takeover… For Now
The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has paused reports on gun seizures and rejected a request for detailed information on a marque effort of the Trump Administration’s recent takeover of city policing.
thereload.com
