Crossfire wrote:If the felony offense is no longer classified as a felony - then it is not considered a felony for CHL purposes. Possession of marijuana, in small amounts, is now a misdemeanor.
I would first contact DPS to find out how your offense would be classified today, and if they say "misdemeanor", then you are good to go!
Does federal law recognize that change in conviction status? In other words, just because the
state says it is no longer a felony conviction, does the federal government recognize that it is no longer a felony conviction?
Weed........ I bought it, smoked it,
ate it.......a lot of it. But I never sold any, and I never got arrested with any. I had a friend who bought it by the pound for personal use, never sold an ounce of what he bought. He smoked a LOT of weed, and was high all the time. You could smell it on his breath the way you smell cigarettes on someone else. But the fact is that—back then—4 oz was a "quarter pound," and a lot of the time, people who bought in that quantity were in fact buying 4 oz so they could sell 3 and subsidize their own oz. So I think that's why it was the "borderline amount" beyond which you were considered to be involved in sales—a felony. Even when simple possession laws began to loosen up into misdemeanor convictions (I can remember when even
1 oz was a felony possession in California),
sale of weed was still a felony charge.
I agree with TheDude that those people who have had felony convictions for what are today considered minor offenses should have their convictions automatically expunged and rights restored if they have remained clean since then. 31 years is a LONG time to have some crappy little thing like this hanging over your head......particularly in the name of a "war on drugs" that few people believe in or care about any longer. Heck, in Colorado, DrRock would be hailed as a folk hero and a martyr to the cause. OTH, he would find it difficult to own most anything semiautomatic there regardless of his conviction status.
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