CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Trump DOJ’s Path for Restoring Prohibited Persons’ Gun Rights – Here’s How it Will Work.

For more than 30 years, federal law has provided a way for certain people prohibited from owning firearms to petition the government to get their gun rights back. Well, technically.

In reality, you had about as much chance of getting your rights restored through 18 U.S.C. § 925(c) as I have of getting an invite to walk the red carpet at the Met Gala. (Important note: For the record, I would never go.) The process existed. You just couldn’t use it. But that’s about to change.

Exit quote: “Congress created a process for restoring your gun rights and then prevented the agency responsible for administering the process from spending any money to actually carry it out. Or, in today’s terms, they de-funded the ATF when it comes to restoring your rights.”

Typical.