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Second Amendment Rights For Felons In Mecklenburg
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About the Project Legal Aid of North Carolina's Second Chance Project offers assistance with expunction and driver's license restoration, helping individuals gain financial stability and reducing recidivism.
A. Civil rights (vote, office, jury) Civil rights are lost upon conviction of a felony. All rights are automatically restored upon “unconditional discharge” of sentence, unconditional pardon, or satisfaction of all conditions of a conditional pardon.
A: Generally speaking, a felon is not allowed to live in a house with guns in North Carolina. The person would have to remove the guns from the house. Unfortunately, just having the gun in a separate room or under lock and key is not enough to bypass the law.
To qualify for restoration of gun rights by a Petition of Restoration of Firearms Rights, the date of your conviction must be at least 20 years before filing, you must be a resident of North Carolina for one year before filing, only one felony is on your record, the felony on your record is a nonviolent felony, the ...
A judge grants the request to restore gun ownership rights based on a few criteria. Mainly, the person must be a resident of North Carolina and only have one felony conviction. Additionally, the person cannot have received any misdemeanor convictions since the conviction of the felony.
This means your record is sealed and you are given a “clean slate.” In order to be eligible to restore your right to own a firearm after a felony conviction in NC, your sentence or probation must have been 10 years ago or longer, must be a Class H or Class I felony, and cannot: Involve any kind of violence or assault.
The Felony Firearms Act in North Carolina makes it illegal for anyone who has ever been convicted of a felony to possess a gun or any other “weapon of mass death and destruction.” A felony is any crime that is potentially punishable by more than a year's incarceration, regardless of what sentence the person actually ...