Which is why I advocate a pathway for a non-violent ex-con to regain their Constitutional Rights! All of them!
A conviction of a non-violent felony! Like skinning the bear in Kentucky or wherever?!?
Just for my own interest, does anyone definitively know what the, least egregious, least offense, and least violent "felony" conviction that the US has?
The Fed now says that if you are ineligible for CCW then you are ineligible to buy a firearm through NICS.
I hear that often, but I've yet to see it in case law or current legal verbiage from a notable source. The only felon that I know personally had his rights restored years ago- and has purchased firearms right beside me.
Presuming this is true, how would this apply to Arizona, Wyoming, Alaska, Kansas, Arkansas, or Vermont? (constitutional carry states) Seems like an awful big oversight, even for the fed.
Hell I'm slow at learning about all this stuff. Man after about 19 years of having a La. CHP I'm still calling it a CHP and not all those other letters people call it.
Rabbit have you seen him do it recently? As far as the other states as long as the state does not restrict firearm possession in any way the Fed doesn't either. If you go to the links I put above on Alaska you will see that since the went constitutional carry it made solved the problem there.
He may be just slipping by somehow. As I said if you send me a email add. I will send a pic of the papers I received from the DOJ stating that LARS 40:1379.3 (c)(10) is the reason that I now cannot possess a firearm. I have not even had anything worse than a speeding ticket since 1995. I had my rights restored in 1997 by way of first offender pardon. I had a UPIN from the ATF. Up until last year everything went well. Then last year I was denied on a firearms nics check and after filing a appeal my UPIN info was all sent back to me with a letter saying that since LA law would not allow me to have a CHP that the Fed would no longer allow me to have any firearms.
As far as the person you know ,they may want to do some digging because if they are in the same boat as many of us then he is in violation of federal law.