A new Department of Justice rule intended to help restore gun rights to people who have been barred from possessing firearms contains provisions that will block officials from denying applications over the use of marijuana or convictions for cannabis-related activity.
The Federal Firearm Rights Restoration policy, announced on Monday, allows people who have been stripped of their Second Amendment rights to apply to have them restored.
The rule says that those applications will likely be denied, however, if the person is an “unlawful user of, or addicted to, a controlled substance” or has a state or federal felony conviction within the last 10 years involving “manufacture, import, export, distribution, or dispensing of a controlled substance.”
It also allows the attorney general to consider whether the applicant is “likely to act in a manner dangerous to public safety,” with one factor being their “past or present use or abuse of controlled substances.”
But the rule specifies that the definition of the term controlled substance “does not include marijuana” and that being an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance “excludes those whose only unlawful use of or addiction to a controlled substance consists of the use of or addiction
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