The Trump administration dismissed a Justice Department lawyer after she refused a request to restore gun rights to Hollywood actor and Donald Trump ally Mel Gibson, according to a report.

A former Department of Justice employee says that a dispute over Mel Gibson and lethal weapons led to her firing. Oyer and representatives for the Justice Department didn't immediately respond to ...

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Amanda Edwards/Getty; Department of Justice A pardon attorney for the Justice Department was fired last week, and she suspects it had something to do with Mel Gibson. Elizabeth G. Oyer told The ...

BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 06: Actor/filmmaker Mel Gibson attends the 89th Annual Academy Awards Nominee Luncheon at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 6, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California.

She said in an interview with The New York Times that Justice Department leadership cited Gibson’s close relationship with President Trump in asking for his gun rights to be restored.

A Justice Department official says she was fired for not letting convicted domestic abuser Mel Gibson have a gun, according to The New York Times. Pardon attorney Liz Oyer told the Times that two ...

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Despite being an acting special ambassador to Hollywood, Mel Gibson, the actor and Oscar-winning director who pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of battering his ex-girlfriend in 2011, ...

Gibson's access to guns is prohibited due to a 2011 "no contest" plea. A top official leading the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney said she was fired from her post one day after ...

The former U.S. pardon attorney, Elizabeth G. Oyer, was terminated Friday after she opposed restoring actor Mel Gibson’s rights to carry a gun, her spokesperson and two Justice Department ...

A high-ranking Justice Department pardon attorney says she was fired just a day after she noted her lack of a recommendation for Mel Gibson‘s restoration of his gun rights. The official ...