Trump A.G. Pam Bondi Is Boasting About … What Precisely?

U.S. Lawyer Basic Pam Bondi is boasting about—effectively, not doing a lot of something in regard to gun seizures in Washington, D.C.

“We’ve now made a complete of 630 arrests and seized 86 unlawful weapons in DC. 53 arrests had been made yesterday, plus 24 ICE arrests and 10 weapons taken off the streets. Our unbelievable US Marshals even helped recuperate a lacking little one,” Bondi wrote Thursday morning on X. “Our mission to make DC protected once more isn’t slowing down.”

Bondi’s proper about one factor: The mission isn’t “slowing down.” It’s not shifting wherever in any respect. Legislation enforcement is taking weapons off the road at across the similar fee it was final yr, even with the elevated present of power from the federal authorities.

“DC police data present they recovered 2,895 firearms in 2024—works out to a mean of about 8 per day & ~100 over two weeks,” wrote Courthouse Information’s Benjamin S. Weiss. “Federal gun seizures on monitor to be kind of the identical in roughly that very same interval, per AG.”

This type of blatant posturing has develop into commonplace prior to now few weeks. The federal authorities desires so badly for us to imagine that its inflow of police has made the nation’s capital a lot safer, when actually, it’s been much more present than substance.