Originally Posted by
Harrison
It's a good question how further licensing would stop crimes like what happened at MSU, but a two year misdemeanor is not federally disqualifying.
18 USC 922(g)
(g)It shall be unlawful for any person—
(1)who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
18 USC 921(a)
(20)The term “crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” does not include—
(A)any Federal or State offenses pertaining to antitrust violations, unfair trade practices, restraints of trade, or other similar offenses relating to the regulation of business practices, or
(B)any State offense classified by the laws of the State as a misdemeanor and punishable by a term of imprisonment of two years or less.
Also see the instructions on the ATF 4473.
EXCEPTION: A person is not prohibited from receiving or possessing a firearm
if that person: (1) has been convicted of any Federal or State offense pertaining to
antitrust violations, unfair trade practices, restraints of trade, or other similar offenses
relating to the regulation of business practices; (2) has been convicted of a State
misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment of two years or less; or (3) following
conviction of a felony or other crime for which the judge could have imprisoned the
person for more than one year, or a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, has
received a pardon, an expungement or set aside of the conviction, or has lost and
regained civil rights (the right to vote, sit on a jury, and hold public office) in the
jurisdiction in which the conviction occurred, AND the law of the convicting
jurisdiction does not prohibit the person from receiving or possessing firearms.
Also, a person who has no more than one conviction of a misdemeanor crime of
domestic violence against an individual in a dating relationship, and is not otherwise
prohibited under this chapter, is not prohibited if 5 years have elapsed from
conviction or completion of the person’s custodial or supervisory sentence,
whichever occurs later, and the person has not subsequently been convicted of any
other misdemeanor crime of violence, or any other offense that would disqualify the
person under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g). A person subject to any of these exceptions, or
who received relief from disabilities under 18 U.S.C. § 925(c), should answer “no”
to the applicable question.