Reply #107: I happen to be a convicted Burglar, so I take offense to your suggestion. [View All]

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I was barely 18 at the time, got caught up with the wrong "friends" and made a terrible mistake. We broke into a computer store at night and stole some computers. I paid for that mistake with 6 months prison time and over $19,000 in back restitution (which I have since paid in full), and 10 years probation. Haven't stolen anything in the 13 years since. But according to state law, I have to wait 5 years after the termination of my sentence before I can even able to apply to get my gun rights back. I think this is unfair, as I have already served my time but I am still being punished for a mistake I made as a teenager. Yet you are saying that I should be barred from gun ownership for life? Why? I have turned my life around, I don't do the things I used to do, I have learned from my mistakes. People can and do change. I think the law should take that into consideration.