After a procedural freeze lasting more than thirty years, the Department of Justice (DOJ) has officially transformed the federal pathway for restoring Second Amendment rights from statutory theory into an active, functioning reality. Following the finalization of its administrative rule under 28 C.F.R. Part 107, the DOJ—shifting administrative authority from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to the Office of the Pardo…