No I actually was allowed a 2nd gun after a home invasion where they automatically pull your permit in NYC. After talking to the top cop down at PP, and explaining that now it made no sense for me to be unarmed now, he agreed and gave me a second purchase order. That is unheard of. In another incident I listened to an attorney who advised me to approach a problem with some Super vel cartrages in a certain manner. He totally screwed everything up. His advise cost me 6 months of "no gun" until I straightnened it out in court myself by showing the judge the purchase order for the gun and the bulletts from the same gun shop on the same day. To which the judge said "how is he supposed to know these are illegal if he bought them legally in a gun shop along with the gun. Just because you guys have a Law degree dosen't mean you are right all the time, thus the amount of cases lost are pretty close to those won. When you are a wise guy and refuse to answer questions and ask for a lawyer when it's a straight up yes or no question, you only draw suspician to yourself. The court waited to see if I was going to sue the dept before returning my guns and re-instating my permitt.In good old NYC you also need to go before a "captains hearing" where my attorney was also useless and didn't know what to say when confronted by an aggressive Captain who does this all day. Thank god I stepped in and told him that there were grave errors on his report that I could prove, he stoped recording and asked me what they were. One was that I was not married at the time or ever "back then", "had nothing to do with anything right" wrong, he said ok the interview is over. My attorney said "I don't think we did so well" I looked at him and said "you have to be kidding" I could hear him screaming down the hall. The permit came back two days later reinstated. I believe that if you know how to speak up for yourself and when to do so, you can handle most things by yourself. I use attorneys for closings, and matters that I don't have a good enough understanding of. But from the expeiences I have had with 5 or 6 attorneys, I found that the make good friends but I don't let them lead the parade as it's not their butt on the line. My friend here in FL is a very cut and dry guy, he will say "either "you need me or you don't need me for this" most times it's "you don't need me", he did 2 closings in 1 day for me and the wife, back to back, for $400.00. Now that's a friend. I find also that attorneys tend to blame each other for your predicament, like "if I would have been representing you, that never would have happened". Half the time you really don't need them. I understand federal cases are very complicated, but why make a problem befor one exists. When a Federal cop comes a calling, they allready have the facts, they just want clarification most times or they would either be arresting you, or asking for you to surrender yourself at a time and place of their choosing. If they are calling you with a question and you get all feaky with them, you are just making it worse. It's like the IRS, maybe they owe you money, lol