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Facts Matter

DOJ Claws Back Authority From ATF to Decide Gun-Rights Restoration for Americans

Facts Matter

The Epoch Times

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51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

The attorney general of the United States has just issued a new Justice Department rule, rescinding the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ (ATF) authority to restore gun rights to those who’ve had them taken away.

This action opens the door for potentially millions of people to get their Second Amendment rights restored.


Let’s go through it together.


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0:00.0

The Attorney General of the United States has just issued a new Justice Department policy,

0:06.7

a new final interim rule, which has flung the door wide open for potentially upwards of 10 million people

0:13.1

to have their Second Amendment rights restored.

0:15.9

Let's go through it together.

0:16.8

And as always, if you appreciate content like this, which oftentimes gets completely

0:21.4

brushed under the rug by the legacy news outlets, please do smash those like and subscribe

0:25.4

buttons so that this video can reach ever more people via the YouTube algorithm. Now, to start with,

0:31.0

one of the, you can say, quirks of the American judicial system is that sometimes the rights

0:37.0

enumerated in the U.S. Constitution

0:38.7

are seen as inviolable, sacred rights that are offered to every American citizen.

0:43.6

People march in the street if there's even a slight indication that those rights are being

0:47.6

infringed upon.

0:48.8

However, at other times, those very same rights are treated as privileges, things that

0:53.5

the government can take away from you

0:54.9

if, according to them, you don't behave properly. For instance, the Second Amendment to the U.S.

1:00.3

Constitution says, and I quote, the right of the people to keep in their arms shall not be infringed.

1:07.2

Obviously, very straightforward. However, for anyone convicted of a felony or for anyone sentenced to over a year in prison, well, they've actually been stripped of their Second Amendment privileges, regardless of whether the crimes that they committed were violent or nonviolent. Now, the most high profile example of this is our very own commander-in-chief.

1:29.1

Professionally, Donald Trump commands the entirety of the U.S. armed forces.

1:33.8

He has the sole discretion to use nuclear weapons, but as a private citizen, he can no longer

1:40.2

own a gun because he was convicted of 34 state felonies.

1:43.9

And his case is really emblematic.

1:45.5

Trump was convicted for violating a New York law that prohibits falsification of business records.

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