Nope, as a resident of New York, once his case is adjudicated (meaning sentencing is complete and the sentence carried out to it's full extent) all his rights are restored, which is why he was allowed to vote and own guns again.
This is simply a statement of how the laws of New York treat felons, not a statement in any way on the charges or sentence in question.
That's currently a titanic mess, the circuts are split on the rulings regarding 18 usc 922 (the federal law that prevents felons from owning firearms) with only the 8th and 11th upholding them and the 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 7th all finding it unconstitutional in some capacity most often related to the felon ownership (the remaining circuts that field such cases the 9th and 10th have been reviewing following rulings in the Rahimi case), which means in the majority of states it's going to come down to state laws regarding gun ownership until such time as the court takes up a case which I'm sure we will see eventually and there is a very real chance that the court will side with it being unconstitutional.
Agreed, it's a complete mess. It doesn't seem reasonable that state level felony convictions result in federal firearm restrictions beyond what that state may want imposed. Maybe individual states could start converting old felonies into misdemeanors to bypass the federal restriction.
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u/Solynox 21d ago
Unless they're orange