Keisha Lance Bottoms’ decision to run on Joe Biden’s record in Georgia is a gift to Second Amendment advocates who have spent the last four years documenting exactly what that record produced: the most aggressive federal gun-control push since the Clinton era. By volunteering to defend Biden’s signature on the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, his ATF pistol-brace rule, and the steady stream of executive actions that turned the ATF into a de-facto rulemaking body, Bottoms is tying herself to policies that expanded background-check delays, invited lawsuits over “ghost guns,” and kept alive the threat of a national handgun roster. For Georgia gun owners who watched the state’s own constitutional-carry law sail through under Republican leadership while Biden’s DOJ simultaneously targeted FFLs and braced for more magazine bans, the contrast with Trump’s actual record—two Supreme Court justices who later formed the Bruen majority, zero new federal gun-control statutes, and repeated public affirmations of the individual right—is impossible to ignore.

The political math is equally stark. Georgia’s suburban and rural gun-owning voters turned out in force in 2020 and 2021 precisely because they saw federal overreach materializing in real time; Bottoms is now asking those same voters to reward the administration that tried to make pistol braces felonious overnight and floated red-flag laws that bypass due process. Her willingness to debate Trump’s record on guns also hands pro-2A groups a ready-made contrast reel: Trump appointed judges who ended the “may-issue” era in New York, while Biden’s ATF spent 2023–2024 rewriting definitions to capture millions of lawfully owned firearms. If Bottoms truly believes Biden “delivered for Georgia,” she will have to explain why thousands of Peach State residents suddenly found themselves in legal jeopardy over a stabilizing brace or why the same administration that promised to codify Roe also promised to codify assault-weapon restrictions.

For the 2A community the takeaway is simple: every time a Democratic candidate nationwide embraces Biden’s gun record, it crystallizes the choice for fence-sitting gun owners. Bottoms’ comments guarantee that Georgia’s 2026 governor’s race will feature the clearest possible referendum on whether voters want continued federal rulemaking by unelected bureaucrats or a return to an administration that at least rhetorically treated the Second Amendment as an individual right rather than a regulatory nuisance.