Bartholomew Roberts
Moderator
As you may or may not know, the BATFE has a process to restore firearm rights to people who have been prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms. Unfortunately, Congress has not provided funds for this purpose since the Clinton administration - which means that any such request will wait indefinitely and never be processed.
Further cases through the judicial system have said that this is OK from a constitutional standpoint, even when the felony conviction was for a stupid crime in another country that is not even illegal in America.
However, today I noticed several PETA-type groups are suing the Department of Agriculture. It seems that at their behest Congress defunded the USDA inspection of horsemeat for export at the three remaining slaughterhouses in the U.S. This threatened to put the $41 million industry out of business since the law says that such meat must be inspected by the USDA.
Rather than put the industry out of business, the USDA and the three slaughterhouses reached an accord where the industry would pay the costs of the USDA inspections. Naturally this irked the PETA-types and they are now suing to stop it.
However, it does bring up a question in my mind. Would it be possible to get a restoration of rights through the current BATFE process if you funded it yourself (or had a group like NRA fund it)?
Further cases through the judicial system have said that this is OK from a constitutional standpoint, even when the felony conviction was for a stupid crime in another country that is not even illegal in America.
However, today I noticed several PETA-type groups are suing the Department of Agriculture. It seems that at their behest Congress defunded the USDA inspection of horsemeat for export at the three remaining slaughterhouses in the U.S. This threatened to put the $41 million industry out of business since the law says that such meat must be inspected by the USDA.
Rather than put the industry out of business, the USDA and the three slaughterhouses reached an accord where the industry would pay the costs of the USDA inspections. Naturally this irked the PETA-types and they are now suing to stop it.
However, it does bring up a question in my mind. Would it be possible to get a restoration of rights through the current BATFE process if you funded it yourself (or had a group like NRA fund it)?