The Department of Justice is looking to empower a decades-old law to give criminals an avenue to purchase guns. The law allows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to restore ...

Hollywood star Mel Gibson has had his gun rights restored by Donald Trump's Justice Department after a 2011 misdemeanor ...

The department still supports laws ensuring “violent and dangerous people” cannot lawfully acquire firearms, as long as there is “an appropriate avenue” to restore rights to people who ...

People familiar with the decision said Mr. Gibson, a supporter of President Trump, would be among 10 people with convictions to get back their gun rights.

Mel Gibson, whose gun rights were revoked in 2011 following a domestic violence-related misdemeanor felony conviction, ...

The law allows the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives to restore gun rights to some convicted criminals, but congressional spending bills beginning in 1992 prevent it from doing ...