Ironcode says: I don't know if this particular crime is a felony or what the legal definition of a felony is. However, it is worth noting that the law doesn't say "felony" when it prohibits firearm acquisition or possession. What 18 U.S.C. 922 says is something like "a crime punishable by a year of imprisonment or more".
So for light crimes it'd not be a problem. For more serious stuff, yeah - they'd have to earn their rights back.
That's the thing,
Ironcode, we stupid law-abiding people - me and a couple others not to generalize - have no idea what a 'felony' or "a crime punishable by a year of imprisonment or more" is is is is, because the 'professional" law interpreters appear to enjoy twisting the letter of the law as they please.
Then they tell us to attend university to comprehend simple things like that. [I'm sorry, buddy, I studies 8 years already for my degrees, I do not need to know how you and yours twist common sense law into incomprehensible monkey talk.]
We ordinary common sense people are able to distinguish what "is" is. It takes an attorney to muddle things up. Whose interpretation of laws make more sense to most Americans?
If I were a betting man, and I ain't - being ignorant and stupid in addition to lacking the law degree - most citizens would forgive a teenager for his prank of graffiti, or a 14-year old autistic kid's art depicting a gun. No common-sense American would even think charging these kids with a felony.
It makes perfect sense to an attorney, however, to go for it.
[Who in their right mind would charge three Navy SEALs? An attorney!]
I'd bet also that most of us non-lawyers would agree that when a non-violent wo/man has paid his/her dues back to the society and demonstrated being trustworthy, s/he should have all his/her rights fully restored, owning a gun being one of them.
Lost causes should never see this side of a prison fence - ever. It's that simple. Yeah, I know, how to define a lost cause challenge from the attorney. Think about like the rest of us and it will come.
Our resident lawyer is for "freedom" but his 'freedom' resembles hardly the vision of freedom this country was founded on. The lawyers just create more laws that prohibit our law-abiding citizen's rights.
Finishing on an interesting note: we posses approximately equal number of cops (800,000), gang-bangers (800,000) and need 1,128,729 attorneys to handle the situation.
The gangs commit some 80% of the crime, yet the highly trained legal eagles are increasingly coming after us law-abiding American citizens for forging a signature, drawing a picture or sending an non-threatening e-mail to your representative.
Yet they - attorneys, lawyers, pick a name - are willing to offer the murdering scum a two-year sentence for a 30-year crime! This happens every day in America - every day, but the parents the OP's case are beyond sympathy and redemption and, more important, are raising an obvious criminal.
Then the federal government declares half of the country potential terrorists, because we don't like their politics, criminality, or bitterly cling to our 300,000,000 guns, ~1,000,000,000,000s (?) of rounds of ammunition and religion.
http://www.lawsome.net/arizona-misdemenor-felonies/ in Arizona that stated that if you committed a misdemeanor wearing a red mask that it automatically turns into a felony.
Soon we all are felons! Currently I posses one parking ticket in my criminal roster. I eagerly expect that to be elevated into the felony status when the time comes.
They sound like a couple of fundamentally dishonest and untrustworthy people, and I'm not going to waste any sympathy on them. They are liars, and they're probably raising their kids to be liars as well.
declares our resident attorney.
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