{"id":245861,"date":"2026-05-14T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:40:06","slug":"higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Higgins Opens Hearing on Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/\">Higgins Opens Hearing on Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/\">https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-14 10:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"oversight.house.gov\">oversight.house.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u2014Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement Chairman Clay Higgins (R-La.) delivered opening remarks at today\u2019s hearing on \u201cPrivacy Protections &#038; the Second Amendment: Examining ATF\u2019s Relationship to the Tiahrt Amendment.\u201d In his opening statement, Subcommittee Chairman Higgins highlighted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives\u2019s (ATF) history of abusing the Tiahrt Amendment and disregarding the Second Amendment under the Biden Administration. He also expressed hope that the Trump Administration would end the Biden ATF\u2019s most destructive regulations.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below are Subcommittee Chairman Higgins\u2019s remarks as prepared for delivery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement convenes to conduct critical oversight of the agency charged with executing our Nation\u2019s firearms laws \u2013 the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We are honored to be joined by ATF\u2019s newly confirmed Director, Robert Cekada.\u00a0\u00a0Director Cekada boasts decades of experience and distinguished service within ATF and law enforcement.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Director Cekada\u2019s deep expertise\u2014and his respect for the law and constitutional rights\u2014should give us optimism about ATF\u2019s future posture toward law abiding gunowners and the Second Amendment generally.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strong, principled leadership at ATF is all the more important now given the agency\u2019s inexcusable disregard of Second Amendment rights over the past several years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>One acute example has been ATF\u2019s repeated failure to abide by a federal law prohibiting the dissemination of firearms trace data, known popularly as the \u201cTiahrt Amendment.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Firearms trace data is information about the chain of gun ownership and sale beginning from the point of manufacture\u2014maintained by the ATF\u2019s National Tracing Center, or \u201cNTC\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of a 2003 Department of Justice appropriations bill, the Tiahrt Amendment precludes ATF from sharing this data with anyone other than&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Higgins Opens Hearing on Privacy Protections and the Second Amendment https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/higgins-opens-hearing-on-privacy-protections-and-the-second-amendment\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-14 10:37:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Higgins-Opener.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245863,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245861\/revisions\/245863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}