President Donald Trump’s policy to stop enforcing a gun law has been a gift to conservative Second Amendment advocates — and, now, to three alleged leftist militants searched by Alabama police.

Grand jurors indicted roommates Levi Belcher, Anthony Slota, and Tadashi Erekson on Oct. 5 after officials linked Belcher to online threats against immigration agents and allegedly found weapons in their home. The Justice Department motioned on Oct. 29 to dismiss all three of the men’s charges of possessing a short-barreled rifle, and a judge has already approved the dismissals for Slota and Erekson. Belcher still faces a threatening communications charge, while the other two have no more federal counts.

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