Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced that they’re creating a new process for non-violent individuals who have lost their gun rights due to a criminal conviction to regain those rights after serving their time. This is part of a process Attorney General Pam Bondi began back in March when she took responsibility for making rights restoration determinations back from the ATF.
Now the DOJ has proposed a new rule in the federal register that would give these individuals a new process to apply for full restoration of their Second Amendment rights.
The DOJ issued this statement yesterday . . .
President Trump directed the Department of Justice to address the ongoing infringements of the Second Amendment rights of our citizens—all of them. Federal law disables the firearms rights of many citizens who have been convicted of crimes without regard to whether they actually pose a threat of violence. But federal law also empowers the Attorney General to restore Second Amendment rights to individuals who are not “likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety.” Today, the Department of Justice submitted to the Office of the Federal Register a proposed rule regarding the exercise of the Attorney General’s authority under 18 U.S.C. 925(c) to grant relief to individuals who are otherwise precluded from possessing firearms.
“For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms—a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion—irrespective of whether they actually pose a threat,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No longer.”
The proposed rule will provide citizens whose firearm rights are currently under legal disability with an avenue to restore those rights, while keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous criminals and illegal aliens. Ultimate discretion to grant relief will remain with the Attorney General, and she will exercise that discretion on a case-by-case basis in light of all available facts and evidence that bear on an individual’s application. But absent extraordinary circumstances, violent felons, registered sex offenders, and illegal aliens, in particular, will remain presumptively ineligible for relief.
“General Bondi’s support of the rebooted 925(c) program is consistent with President Donald J. Trump’s promise to the American people to support the beautiful Second Amendment,” said U.S. Pardon Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr. “My team and I are developing a 925(c) program landing page with a sophisticated, user-friendly platform for Americans petitioning for the return of their gun rights, which will make the process easier for them.”
The Justice Department welcomes comments from communities that could be affected by a final rule including law enforcement, victims’ advocates, elected officials, and individuals who would like to apply to have their gun rights restored. Because this proposed rule is intended to create a fair and thoughtful system to evaluate applications for the restoration of firearms right, the Justice Department recommends that individuals seeking the restoration of their firearm rights review and comment on the proposed process rather than submit applications at this time.
View the proposed rule as it was submitted to the Office of the Federal Register HERE. An official copy will be published next week.
Unless you are actually serving a sentence I see no reason why all rights should not be restored to a convicted person. All rights.
I worked in a prison for a time. A felony conviction creates many lifetime problems for the convicted. I’ve seen teens with felonies. They may as well return to crime, they have few options left after that first conviction.
We need justice. Not revenge.
Gun Free zone signs don’t prevent shootings and only restrict honest citizens. Laws prohibiting felons from gun possession do nothing to stop truly violent felons from committing additional crimes.
The justice system could do a lot more to deter crimes of violence. The left just has not gotten the message.
Or rather, the left received the message; but quickly dismiss it in their attempts to be far more sympathetic for the bad guys than they do the victims. Bad people do as they please regardless of any law and the violent felon’s method is not limited to guns. E. g., car violence seems to be gaining in popularity.
The change as I understand it does not issue a blanket rule for ‘all’ felons. Those felons who are extremely violent should remain locked away from society and denying them 2A rights is far more justified than a blanket rule denying ‘all’ felons regardless of crimes committed. In short, non violent felons should not be denied their 2A rights for life. Some violent felons could be rehabilitated and setting a time of good behavior, 10 years, would then allow them to apply for reinstatement of their 2A rights.
I know a guy who as a teen got convicted of a felony for a shopping cart rolling into his car.
Just hanging out with some of his friends in the parking lot of a store that had closed for the night. Not much for teens to do in a small own like that when the sun goes down, and its a weekend… so they hung out at the local all-night-diner/burger place, or maybe went to a movie until the theater closed for the night, or hung out at the bowling alley until they closed for the night, or they ‘cruised’ up and down main street honking their horns at each other to say ‘Hi’ and meeting up with others, etc… He met up with some friends in the parking lot of this closed store. His friends wanted to know if his then new (used) car could do donuts, so he tried to do donuts.
No other cars in the parking lot except a couple belonging to store employees who were busy shutting down the store for the night. One of these employees getting ready to leave for the night had one last thing to do – gather shopping carts around the doors of the store and bring them inside, and while doing that one of the carts got loose and rolled down the parking lot into the kids car as he was trying to do donuts. Minor damage to the car and the small dent in the shopping cart side was minor, maybe try to buff out a few minor scratches in the paint on the car in a couple of minutes.
Anyway, at the time, normally, had this minor thing been on say a city street this would have been maybe a citation of some type and maybe paying for any minor property damage, maybe getting chewed out by the judge and possibly a few months of suspension of license, and maybe a small fine of a couple hundred dollars. But this happened on private property to private property, and that meant a jail term of a year, a $1,000.00 fine and restitution for the damaged property. jail term suspended if he does 6 months ‘probation’ and doesn’t get in trouble – but he now had a record of a felony conviction.
He was able to join the military, and served with distinction and honor and retired from the military, wounded a few times in combat. Went on hold public office and serve his community.
But because of that felony conviction because a shopping cart rolled into his car – he lost his gun rights and for years he was not able to purchase or posses a gun legally. But fortunately, later in his life he was able to get his gun rights back through the state and was able to get that case many years before ‘dismissed’.
To anti-gun – he is a dangerous felon that should never be able to exercise his second amendment right, but if he votes for anti-gun democrats then ‘he has a right to vote’.
Correction for: “Not much for teens to do in a small own…”
Should have been …
Not much for teens to do in a small town…
Correction for: “Went on hold public office and serve his community.”
Should have been …
Went on to hold public office and serve his community.
Do your time. Complete your parole. Then all your rights should be restored. Anything less is slavery.
New crazy….WHAT? Gun Makers Now Liable For Shootings?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eav8RG60PyE
Breaking: The US Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit has ruled against the NRA. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnRpEksbYV4&pp
What supressors sound like WITHOUT subsonic ammo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEXkTEtIU6w
Ya remember that gun Newsom got as a gift on the pod cast? Wellll…
Newsom Gets Wrecked By His Own Gun Laws.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-rez26XFp8&pp
After the podcast was over Newsom gave the gun back. His own state gun laws would not let him have it. They had to call in a team of lawyers to interpret the California gun laws and they were so confusing the lawyers could not figure them out, the very laws Newsom signed into law. So Newsom got denied gun posession by Newsom.
This Cop Carries 145 Rounds Every Shift, Hear Why! (note: personally, I understand why he carries so much ammo. After the DGU to save my wife, I started carrying six 15 round mags).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV099iVZJgs
The Biden Admin Stole Your Data to Rig Elections and Censor Speech.
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Jason Chaffetz has delivered a devastating exposé that should terrify every American who values his or her constitutional rights. Writing in the New York Post, the former House Oversight Committee chairman pulls back the curtain on what may be the most comprehensive assault on American democracy we’ve witnessed in our lifetime—and it’s happening with our own tax dollars.
Chaffetz revealed that the Biden administration didn’t just weaponize federal agencies against political opponents; it orchestrated an elaborate data-theft operation that would make authoritarian regimes jealous. As Chaffetz explains, “Federal entities outsourced unlawful data collection to politically sympathetic partners. Rather than directly amassing data, they procured or exchanged it from or with nonprofits and technology firms.”
This isn’t some conspiracy theory cooked up by partisan critics. This is documented reality, backed by Freedom of Information Act requests and congressional testimony that the mainstream media has conveniently ignored.
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https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/19/the-biden-admin-stole-your-data-to-rig-elections-and-censor-speech-n4941911
California Dreamin’? Not Anymore: The California Exodus – 140 Daily Departures and Counting.
https://pjmedia.com/david-manney/2025/07/19/the-california-exodus-140-daily-departures-and-counting-n4941922
Journalists arrested in left wing ‘protest’ of terrorist arrest…
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Thirteen protesters were arrested after they blocked traffic in support of Soliman, the Post Millennial reported. One hopes that the rioters actually face serious accountability instead of having their charges dropped, as happens to so many leftist rioters.
Among those arrested were CityBeat reporter Madeline Fening and photography intern Lucas Griffith, who were covering the protest for the Cincinnati-based news outlet. CityBeat editor-in-chief Ashley Moor confirmed that both journalists were charged with felony rioting and additional charges.
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Protestors campaigned outside the DHS office in Blue Ash, Ohio, to protest the arrest of Ayman Soliman, an Egyptian national whose asylum status was revoked by the Biden admin and was flagged on the FBI t*rror watch list.
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https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/07/19/journos-arrested-for-protesting-suspected-terrorists-arrest-n4941918
About that ‘mass-ramming’ ‘car violence’ attack in California reported yesterday where around 30 people were mowed down and injured and one person was shot, the one shot was the driver attacking the group with his car. Bystanders shot him. Reports say bystanders pulled him from the car and shot him after he rammed the crowd but don’t go into further details on that, but police are still uncertain whether the driver was shot before or after he drove his car into the crowd.
anyway…
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/07/19/driver-who-plowed-his-car-through-crowd-of-concertgoers-in-california-is-pulled-from-his-car-and-shot-n4941912
“The LAPD described the person who shot the driver as ‘a Hispanic male, approximately 5 feet, 9 inches tall, 180 pounds, bald, wearing a blue jersey, and possibly armed with a silver revolver.’ The man fled the scene on foot and was last seen going westbound from Vermont Avenue, the LAPD said.”
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/07/19/update-on-driver-who-plowed-into-hollywood-crowd-authorities-think-it-was-intentional-n2191855
He Threatened Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Life. Now He’s Facing Prison Time.
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The Justice Department announced an indictment on Thursday against a former Voice of America employee for allegedly threatening Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
The agency has charged Seth Jason, a Maryland resident, with ‘influencing a federal official by threatening a family member, influencing a federal official by threat, interstate communications with a threat to kidnap or injure, and anonymous telecommunications harassment,’
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/07/18/authorities-arrest-man-for-threatening-marjorie-taylor-greene-n2660590
Obama treason: DNI Gabbard Details More Jaw-Dopping Info on Obama’s Effort to ‘Subvert the American People’s Will’.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2025/07/20/dni-gabbard-details-jaw-dopping-info-detailing-obamas-effort-to-subvert-the-american-peoples-will-n2191863
Left wingers on notice – Ain’t gonna put up with your crap any more – Kentucky don’t play by your rules 🤣: Police Response to Anti-ICE Protest on Kentucky Bridge Delivered Unhappy Moments for Activists.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2025/07/19/kentucky-bridge-protest-n2191861
The Corruption of Scientific Journals Continues Apace.
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Nature used to be a prestigious journal, and deservedly so. Now it is, as with so many elite institutions, still prestigious, but undeservedly so. It, along with its subsidiary Nature-Springer, which publishes hundreds of scientific journals, is no longer concerned with the quality of the science it publishes and focuses on pleasing the …” DEI “… commissars.”
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‘Greg J. Marchand MD
@MarchandSurgery
It’s true – I’ve been canceled!
@BioMedCentral
just kicked me off their editorial board for pointing out their newly hired Lead Editor’ is a DEI figure that’s NEVER PUBLISHED A PAPER – and received her Phd from an internet school last year!’
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Springer-Nature’s journal dedicated to obstetrics is called ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth,’ and it just hired a woman with no research experience and credentials from an online university to be the Lead Editor. She has not published a single research paper, and the thesis she wrote to get her diploma mill Ph.D. was entirely on racism, not pregnancy or childbirth.
When a member of Springer-Nature’s Editorial Board brought this fact up and pointed out that her sole qualification was that she was a black woman, they relieved him of his duties.
Marchand is an obstetrician who also teaches at medical schools. He has invented several surgical techniques, so he knows a thing or two about pregnancy and childbirth. The new ‘Lead Editor?’ Her ‘research’ is in DEI.
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https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/07/19/the-corruption-of-scientific-journals-continues-apace-n3804929
Democrats in LA are accusing ICE of racially profiling because most of their arrests are Latino in predominantly Latino communities. Logic and math hard for these morons:
1. All of Los Angeles is, basically, a predominantly Latino community.
2. Latinos make up almost 80% of all illegal aliens.
3. The raids in LA are predominantly happening in predominantly Latino communities because the illegal aliens are predominantly Latino and they embed in predominantly Latino communities and you can’t go anywhere in LA without being in or traveling through a predominantly Latino community.
Duh!
it amazes me that it is clear from the wording of pamela Bondi that the government know that this is a violation of our 2a right…. she said…“For too long, countless Americans with criminal histories have been permanently disenfranchised from exercising the right to keep and bear arms—a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined as the right to vote, the right to free speech, and the right to free exercise of religion—irrespective of whether they actually pose a threat,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “No longer.” look what she said a right every bit as constitutionally enshrined. this clearly says it is our right. so i just do not understand why anyone with a non-violent felony have to go through all this red tape and pay to get a right back that is a right not a privilege. these rights should automatedly be restored once you complete your sentence and parole or probation.