Mel Gibson's right to own a gun restored by Justice Debt

4/4/2025 9:34

thin the Justice Department because Elizabeth Oyer, a pardon attorney for the department, had last month refused to agree to restore the actor's right to own a gun. She was fired the next day. Oyer, in an interview with the Times, said she had been told by a senior Justice Department leader that Gibson's right to own a weapon should be restored based on the fact that he had a personal relationship with the president. Oyer said her refusal to agree was not a political decision, but based on her not having done a background investigation into Gibson's case, how he may have rehabilitated, and because she considered a domestic violence conviction to be extremely worrying. Trump, a few days before his inauguration in January, named Gibson, along with the actors Sylvester Stallone and Jon Voight, as "special ambassadors" to Hollywood.