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Loss & Restoration of Firearms Rights under Federal Law

This chart has been moved to the 50-State Comparison: Loss & Restoration of Civil/Firearms Rights page.

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Restoration of Rights Project (RRP)

Loss & restoration of civil/firearms rights
Pardon policy & practice
Expungement, sealing & other record relief
Criminal record in employment, licensing & housing

RRP: State-by-State Guides

RRP: 50-State Comparisons

50-State Reintegration Report Card
Civil & Firearms Rights
Pardon Policy & Practice
Expungement, Sealing & Other Record Relief
- Marijuana Legalization & Expungement
Criminal Record in Employment, Licensing & Housing
Relief from Sex Offense Registration
Criminal Record Reforms in 2021
50-State Essays: The Many Roads to Reintegration

Restoration of Firearm Rights After Conviction: A National Survey and Recommendations for Reform (Dec. 2025)

Positive Credentials That Limit Risk: A Report on Certificates of Relief (June 2024)

Advancing Second Chances: Clean Slate and Other Record Reforms in 2023 (Jan. 2024)

Accessing SNAP and TANF Benefits after a Drug Conviction: A Survey of State Laws (Dec. 2023)

The Many Roads from Reentry to Reintegration (March 2022)

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The Reintegration Report Card

About the Restoration of Rights Project

The Restoration of Rights Project (RRP) is a project of the Collateral Consequences Resource Center in partnership with the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, National Legal Aid & Defender Association, National HIRE Network, Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, and Paper Prisons Initiative. Launched in 2017, the RRP is an online resource containing detailed state-by-state analyses of the law and practice in each U.S. jurisdiction relating to restoration of rights and status following arrest or conviction. Jurisdictional “profiles” cover areas such as loss and restoration of civil rights and firearms rights, judicial and executive mechanisms for avoiding or mitigating collateral consequences, and provisions addressing non-discrimination in employment, licensing, and housing. In addition to the jurisdictional profiles, RRP materials include a set of 50-state comparison charts that make it possible to see national patterns in restoration laws and policies. Short “postcard” summaries of the law in each state serve as a gateway to the more detailed information in the profiles, and provide a snapshot of applicable law in each state.

Originally published in 2006 by CCRC Executive Director Margaret Love, the research in the RRP has been kept up to date and substantially expanded over the years, and it is summarized in an appendix to the treatise on collateral consequences published jointly by NACDL and Thompson Reuters (West). It is intended as a resource for practitioners in all phases of the criminal justice system, for courts, for civil practitioners assisting clients whose court-imposed sentence has exposed them to additional civil penalties, for policymakers and advocates interested in reentry and reintegration of convicted persons, and for the millions of Americans with a criminal record who are seeking to put their past behind them.

These resources may be republished as long as appropriate attribution is given to the RRP as its source.

50-state comparisons

50-State Reintegration Report Card
Civil & Firearms Rights
Pardon Policy & Practice
Expungement, Sealing & Other Record Relief
- Marijuana Legalization & Expungement
Criminal Record in Employment, Licensing & Housing
Relief from Sex Offense Registration
Criminal Record Reforms in 2021
50-State Essays: The Many Roads to Reintegration

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