[wardaddy]

Interesting perspective...as it now stands, it's the proverbial catch-22 and the VPC and "others" including some quasi-conservatives like it.

I will bet you that they may well amend the black powder and pre 1-1-1899 antique firearm gap to include those too at some point though to my knowledge no ex-felon has ever killed anyone with those.

In fact I believe that out of the 22,000 restorations the ATF granted between 68 and 92 only 169 went on to commit further crimes involving firearms. I think the ATF was approving about 1/3 of applicants historically.

It's so silly. Anyone ex-felon or otherwise who intends to commit a crime will get a firearm and could care less about the legality of it if they intend to use it to commit a crime.

It's just another way to outlaw gunowners if not guns. I believe that somewhere around 1 in 7 adult males are disenfranchised as such either federally or otherwise....and growing.

[supercat]

It's just another way to outlaw gunowners if not guns. I believe that somewhere around 1 in 7 adult males are disenfranchised as such either federally or otherwise....and growing.

What's especially galling is the notion that "felonies" don't even require any prison time. If someone is convicted of any crime for which he could theoretically have been sentenced to over a year in prison, he's a "felon" even if the facts of your case wouldn't support anything near such a sentence. One example that comes to mind is a person with an otherwise-clean record who plead guilty to being an accessory to the theft of a case of beer off an open porch. Because the "theft" statute provided up to IIRC a three-year sentence, the person became a "felon" even though there is probably no judge who would have given even a six-month sentence given the facts of the case.