[inquest]

That's all well and good if felons are stripped of gun ownership as part of their sentence, but the Constitution explicitly prohibits ex post facto laws.

And even then, if a felon is too dangerous to be trusted with a gun, then he shouldn't be let out into society. Once his sentence is up, he is by right a free man once again, with all the natural rights that go along with it, including the right to self-defense.

[jwalsh07]

Once his sentence is up, he is by right a free man once again, with all the natural rights that go along with it, including the right to self-defense.

Nope. His sentence can contain probation, a prohibition on working with children, his forfeiture of his right to sit on the board of a corporation and a prohibition on his RTKABA.