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benEzra

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7. For the purposes of Federal revocation of civil rights, I am pretty sure those 2- and 5-year crimes

Reply to Sunlei (Reply #6)

Tue Mar 28, 2017, 08:34 PM

Mar 2017

count as felonies. A BATFE Form 4473 asks if you've ever been convicted of a crime *punishable* by more than 1 year in prison, even if the actual sentence was less. So it's a life sentence for him in terms of civil rights revocation.

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