{"id":5613,"date":"2026-08-18T09:40:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2026-08-18T09:40:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T09:40:28","slug":"trump-goon-hatches-wild-scheme-to-give-criminals-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5613","title":{"rendered":"Trump Goon Hatches Wild Scheme to Give Criminals Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche has launched a new initiative to give convicted felons back their right to own guns.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5611\">Murdoch Paper Sounds Alarm After Last-Minute Trump Move<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice announced Monday that people whose felony convictions automatically barred them from owning weapons can now apply to have their right to bear arms reinstated. The DOJ predicted that 330,000 felons will apply.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In a statement, Blanche said, \u201cthe Second Amendment is not a second-class right, and the federal government should not permanently deprive Americans of a constitutional right without regard to whether they pose a danger to public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The DOJ said the new initiative to put guns back in the hands of criminals will not extend to undocumented immigrants, registered sex offenders, or those convicted of violent crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Those with criminal records have typically been able to reclaim their right to own a gun if they obtained a pardon, but the pardon division within the DOJ has seen chaos in the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department fired its previous pardon attorney, Elizabeth Oyer, last year, after she objected to restoring gun rights to Trumpy actor Mel Gibson, who lost his gun rights as a result of a 2011 domestic violence misdemeanor conviction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is dangerous. This isn\u2019t political\u2014this is a safety issue,\u201d she told The New York Times at the time, adding, \u201cGiving guns back to domestic abusers is a serious matter that, in my view, is not something that I could recommend lightly, because there are real consequences that flow from people who have a history of domestic violence being in possession of firearms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5609\">Trump\u2019s Blonde Companion, 35, Uses Secret Codeword<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was replaced with right-wing prosecutor Edward Martin, who defended the Jan. 6 rioters. Martin refers to himself as \u201cEagle Ed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the start of the second Trump administration, he was essentially ousted from his appointment to lead the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in D.C. as it became clear he would not have the votes in the Senate to be confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>He was prominently involved in Trump\u2019s crazed \u201cStop the Steal\u201d movement, in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and he served on the board of the Patriot Freedom Project, which raised money to support defendants from the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Martin hailed the new push to restore gun rights to felons, saying in a statement that he is \u201cproud to serve and defend our great Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump keeps making history\u2014this time by his unprecedented restoration of firearms rights to millions of Americans,\u201d his statement continued.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5607\">Dem Star Doubles Down on Trump\u2019s Blonde Companion After Triggering Meltdown<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche has launched a new initiative to give convicted felons back their right to own guns. Read more Murdoch Paper Sounds Alarm After Last-Minute Trump Move The Department of Justice announced Monday that people whose felony convictions automatically barred them from owning weapons can now apply to have their right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump Goon Hatches Wild Scheme to Give Criminals Guns - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=5613\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump Goon Hatches Wild Scheme to Give Criminals Guns - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Newly sworn-in Attorney General Todd Blanche has launched a new initiative to give convicted felons back their right to own guns. 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