The Trump administration's Department of Justice has restored federal gun rights to 22 people with felony convictions, including Republican Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman, who was indicted in 2024 as an alleged fake elector and later pardoned by President Trump. The move revives a gun rights restoration program that had been dormant for over three decades and bypasses a 1992 congressional ban on the ATF reviewing such applications, drawing criticism from gun control groups over lack of transparency and concerns about violent offenders regaining firearm access.
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The Trump administration's Department of Justice has restored federal gun rights to 22 people with felony convictions, including Republican Arizona State Senator Jake Hoffman, who was indicted in 2024 as an alleged fake elector and later pardoned by President Trump. The move revives a gun rights restoration program that had been dormant for over three decades and bypasses a 1992 congressional ban on the ATF reviewing such applications, drawing criticism from gun control groups over lack of transparency and concerns about violent offenders regaining firearm access.