DOJ Creates a New Pathway to Restore Gun Rights for some Convicted of Felonies
The new application system will review requests case by case and deny violent offenders, sex offenders and other people deemed dangerous.
- On Monday, The Justice Department finalized a rule allowing individuals barred from owning firearms due to criminal convictions to apply for rights reinstatement through a new online portal.
- For decades, Congress has effectively blocked the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from processing reinstatement applications, but this new policy circumvents that legislative barrier.
- Officials will grant restoration on a case-by-case basis, weighing individual records and reputation, while denying violent criminals, registered sex offenders, and those posing safety threats absent extraordinary circumstances.
- The move represents part of President Donald Trump's broader administration effort to ease firearms restrictions, following the department's recent decision against challenging a court ruling on suppressors.
- Attorney General Todd Blanche stated the Second Amendment is not a "second-class right," calling the process a victory for advocates who have long pushed for nonviolent felons to regain firearm ownership.
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Blanche’s DOJ Launches New Process to Restore Gun Rights for Certain Americans With Criminal Records - Real News Now
Attorney General Todd Blanche has finalized a major new Justice Department rule allowing certain Americans who have lost their federal firearm rights because of criminal convictions to apply to have those Second Amendment rights restored. The Federal Firearm Rights Restoration program creates an application process for people prohibited from possessing firearms under federal law. Rather than automatically restoring gun rights to convicted crimin…
The US Justice Department has implemented a new rule that will allow people convicted of felonies to apply to restore their gun rights. Attorney General Todd Blanch called it a significant step toward restoring Second Amendment rights. Since 1992, Congress has barred the ATF from processing such applications, but a new online portal will now address this.
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Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday that the Justice Department (DOJ) was reviving a process by which those who lost gun rights due to criminal convictions could have them restored. While federal law provides for a process to restore Second Amendment rights lost after a felony conviction or other circumstances, Congress had largely blocked the process since 1992 by refusing to allow the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosi…
DOJ Revives Federal Firearm Rights Restoration
A federal firearm-rights restoration process is reopening after more than three decades, but the Second Amendment remains a constitutional right—not a government-issued privilege. AI-generated illustration by AmmoLand News. United States Attorney General Todd Blanche finalized a federal regulation governing the restoration of federal firearm rights. The new process allows eligible individuals who are prohibited from possessing firearms to apply …
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