Also, you will find that the list of “prohibited persons” includes those convicted of a misdemeanor which has a maximum possible sentence of greater than ten years. Maryland has one or two of those. No one gets the max, but that is not the issue; just the maximum written into the MD law. This point was made by a very good instructor this past Saturday by an attorney on the Cato Institute staff.
Any sentence less than one year would be a misdemeanor, no? Felonies are sentences of more than one year. Then you have those "wobbler's" that can be charged as either.
They are now holding people accountable for crimes that were never committed. For example; if a person is charged for a crime, but convicted of another, they hold the person accountable for the charge. If you were charged with murder and later convicted of jaywalking, that doesn't make you a murderer or a felon.
Unfortunately, the federal government has started using "charging papers" a.k.a police reports and Hearsay to deny your God Given rights. If the "element" of violence is anywhere in the subsection of the plea, the witch hunt begins.