Federal law indeed bans gun possession by felons — people who have been convicted of any “crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year” (with some exceptions for things such as antitrust violations), except for state crimes that the state calls “misdemeanor[s]” that are “punishable by a term of imprisonment of two years or less.” And this is so even when the actual sentence imposed on the person is very short, likely reflecting the court’s judgment that the actual circumstances of the crime made it not very serious.
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