Blanche said applicants must establish the circumstances of their prohibition, prove they do not pose a public safety risk and then the Justice Department will also evaluate the applicant's record, reputation and subsequent conduct.
The Trump administration is moving to restore Second Amendment rights for Americans who have paid their debt to society and can demonstrate they are no longer a danger to the public. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday that the Justice Department has finalized a new process allowing certain people barred under federal law from possessing […] The post Another Trump Admin Victory for Gun Rights appeared first on StoneZone .
The Trump administration is moving to restore Second Amendment rights for Americans who have paid their debt to society and can demonstrate they are no longer a danger to the public. Attorney General Todd Blanche announced Monday that the Justice Department has finalized a new process allowing certain people barred under federal law from possessing firearms to apply to have those rights restored. For more than three decades, the relief process authorized by Congress was effectively unavailable to most applicants. The new system does not automatically hand guns back to criminals. Applicants must show that their record, reputation, circumstances, and subsequent conduct demonstrate they are unlikely to threaten public safety. Violent…Open
That’s got Chicago on the wrong end of a 7-to-1 ratio
AI:New data highlights a staggering disparity in violent crime rates based on Second Amendment protections, revealing that Chicago—located in a state with heavy anti-gun restrictions—suffers from a murder rate seven times higher than cities in states that respect constitutional gun rights. This massive 7-to-1 ratio underscores the ongoing failure of restrictive firearm legislation to ensure public safety, as high-crime urban centers continue to struggle under the weight of leftist policies while more law-abiding jurisdictions see significantly better outcomes for their citizens.Open
Legal experts caution the NFA is not completely dead. And not just anyone is can purchase suppressors sans paperwork.
AI:The legal establishment and the tyrannical National Firearms Act remain in a state of high-stakes flux following a recent landmark ruling on suppressors. While some may celebrate this as a blow to federal overreach, legal experts warn that the NFA's stranglehold is far from broken. This decision leaves the gun-owning public in a precarious position; it provides only a fractured victory that fails to dismantle the underlying regulatory nightmare, leaving many wondering if they are actually compliant or merely caught in a new web of bureaucratic confusion.Open
The struggle to keep an energized far-left wing of the party from dominating the messaging this fall is far from over as democratic socialists overtly talk about defunding police and prisons and erasing 2nd Amendment rights.