Barton Morris has spent 25 years as a criminal defense attorney fighting for the constitutional rights of individuals — and firearm rights restoration is constitutional law. That distinction matters. Restoring your Second Amendment rights isn’t paperwork; it’s persuading courts and the federal government that a constitutional right should be returned to you. That is precisely the work Barton has built his career on.

Barton is an accomplished federal criminal defense lawyer with extensive experience in both the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen and the Sixth Circuit’s decision in United States v. Williams, he began filing motions challenging the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) — the federal felon-in-possession statute — and won many of those challenges. That success led him further: suing the Department of Justice for declaratory relief on behalf of clients denied their rights, litigation that produced results and early invitations to file petitions under 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), the federal firearm rights restoration program. He has also taken the DOJ to court over its interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33) — the definitions of domestic violence and expungement — when the government tried to use an obscure, misunderstood provision to strip a Michigan client of his rights.

Few attorneys anywhere have this depth of experience across every path to restoration:

• Federal firearm rights restoration — early § 925(c) petitions with the Department of Justice
• Constitutional challenges to § 922(g) in federal court
• FBI NICS challenges and Voluntary Appeal File (VAF) appeals
• State firearm rights restoration — more than 20 clients restored, in Michigan and beyond
• Expungement — a thriving practice under Michigan’s expanded 2021 Clean Slate laws

Barton is a frequent legal commentator on firearm rights, interviewed by FOX 2 Detroit, WDIV, and radio outlets across Michigan, and he is currently writing the first book dedicated to federal and state firearm rights restoration. He founded Armed Again for one purpose: to help people all over the country get their firearm rights back — and keep them.

If your rights were taken, they may be restorable. Barton Morris knows every route to get there — because he helped build the map.