As it stands right now, there is virtually no way to restore your gun rights once they have been taken away.

The issue at hand is a firearms dealer, Thomas Bean, who inadvertently tried to cross into Mexico with 200 rounds of ammunition in his car. That landed him an immediate felony conviction and five year sentence in Mexico without even having a trial. Mexico turned him over to the US to serve out his sentence, after which a federal judge in Texas commuted it. Under US law however, even the foreign felony conviction means that Bean loses his firearms dealer's license.

Bean, wanting to restore his business, tried negotiating the process of restoring his firearms license. However, the process of restoring licenses falls on the ATF, and Congress has conveniently cut off funding to the ATF for this function. In effect, the ATF is unable to perform the function that the law demands of them. They even told Bean that they could not make a decision due to lack of funding. They didn't turn him down, they just failed to process his claim.

After hitting that road block, Bean looked to the federal courts to restore his license. Enter the gun grabbers. Now anti-gun nazis at the Violence Policy Center (VPC) are lobbying to deny the courts the right to step in and act because the ATF's hands are tied. The effect is that there is no way for someone to restore their firearm's license once it has been revoked.

The matter has gone to go to the Supreme Court. If they rule in Bean's favor, it would be an affirmation of the government stance that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right. The interpretation of the Second Amendment may be at stake here. So far, every federal court has upheld the reinstatement of Bean's license, and the right of the federal courts to act when the ATF will not. That doesn't stop gun grabbers at the VPC from trying to take away Bean's livelihood, though. Those fuckers bastards would love to see another firearms dealer out of business, even if it does ruin his life. Me thinks there is a special place in hell for those people.