By justina colmena ~biz in guns —

NRA's half-hearted support of restoration of rights for "prohibited persons"

NRA probably does somewhat more good than harm for gun owners but very little if anything at all is offered in the way of effective legal advocacy

NRA-ILA | Trump Administration Revives Federal Firearm Rights Restoration Provision
On March 20, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) published an interim final rule entitled, Withdrawing the Attorney General’s Delegation of Authority. That bland title belies the historic nature of the measure, which is aimed at reviving a provision of federal law that could, for the first time since 1992, allow federally prohibited persons to petition for restoration of their Second Amendment rights.
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The current DOJ rulemaking formally revokes ATF’s jurisdiction over this function so that the funding rider does not pose an ongoing impediment to the consideration of petitions. As it states in the preamble: With such a clean slate, the Department anticipates future actions, including rulemaking consistent with applicable law, to give full effect to 18 U.S.C. 925(c) while simultaneously ensuring that violent or dangerous individuals remain disabled from lawfully acquiring firearms.

"Consideration of petitions" is only an invitation for an automatic denial and a SWAT team invasion of the petitioner's home with more and more unwarranted surveillance, searches, ransackings and seizures of firearms and any other personal items kept in the home.

Sorry but inveterate gun-grabbers can't have a clean slate. Shopkeeper-privileged crooks and criminals, robbers and thieves have long since taken over and seized control of the civil courts and all police stations and sheriff’s offices in all cases involving the possession of guns by law-abiding citizens.

"Violent or dangerous individuals?" Oh really? Isn't that what they always say about us when they don't want us to have guns?