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, still doesn’t have the right to own a gun.

A Department of Justice pardon attorney who was among multiple high ranking DoJ officials fired on Friday said Monday her termination appears to be connected to her recommendation the day before that Mel Gibson’s gun ownership rights not be restored.

A high-ranking Justice Department attorney says she was fired a day after she opposed a recommendation for Mel Gibson's restoration of his gun rights.

Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.

The pardon attorney for the Department of Justice was dismissed one day after she refused to recommend gun rights be restored to Mel Gibson after he pleaded guilty to a domestic violence charge.

Former Justice Department pardon attorney Elizabeth G. Oyer says she was fired one day after she refused to recommend that actor Mel Gibson have his gun rights restored, according to the New York Times.