OPINION
QUIST, District Judge.
Introduction
Recently, with much publicity, Congress made it a crime for a person who had been "convicted" of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence to possess a firearm. See 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9). At the same time, Congress also provided that in the unusual circumstance where a state takes away a misdemeanant's civil rights and later restores them, there is no "conviction" and, consequently...
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