Feb. 7, 2025
President Trump signed Protecting Second Amendment Rights (E.O. 14206), directing the Attorney General to inventory federal actions that infringe the right to keep and bear arms and to propose a plan to protect it.
For more than thirty years, 18 U.S.C. § 925(c) sat on the books while Congress blocked ATF from processing applications. The Trump Administration moved that authority to the Attorney General, finalized a rule on August 17, 2026, and opened the Federal Firearm Rights Restoration program. We help eligible, nonviolent clients assemble the record the Department of Justice actually reviews.
President Trump signed Protecting Second Amendment Rights (E.O. 14206), directing the Attorney General to inventory federal actions that infringe the right to keep and bear arms and to propose a plan to protect it.
A March 2025 interim rule withdrew ATF’s delegation. Because Congress’s appropriations rider only blocked ATF spending, the Office of the Pardon Attorney can now administer § 925(c).
Attorney General Todd Blanche finalized the application process. Relief is granted only if the applicant is not likely to act dangerously and granting relief is consistent with the public interest.
People with older, nonviolent federal or state felony convictions — fraud, theft, tax, regulatory, certain drug-possession cases — who finished every part of the sentence years ago and have lived a stable, law-abiding life since.
A structured eligibility review against the final rule’s permanent, 10-year, 5-year, and status-based presumptions.
We give you a court-by-court document list: charging papers, judgments, sentence-completion certificates, and multi-state criminal history.
Narrative of rehabilitation, reference coaching, sworn statements, and a packet organized the way DOJ reviewers expect to see it.
When the official portal accepts your slot, you file. We track the 30-day cure window, fingerprint step at USPS, and reference completion.
The statute is short. The file is not. Reviewers look at the whole person, not just the statute of conviction.
Every § 922(g) disability that applies, including old or expunged matters that still exist in federal files. Incomplete disclosure is a common reason an application dies.
Employment, family, treatment if relevant, community ties, and the absence of new crimes, threats, or instability over a sustained period.
Whether restoring the right would be contrary to the public interest. Local law enforcement in your ZIP code is notified and may comment. They do not have a veto.
The intake form is confidential on your device until you choose to send it. You can save a draft and come back.