Can I Get My Gun Rights Back After a Felony Conviction?

18 U.S.C. § 1343

Wire Fraud

Usually analyzed as an “other felony” unless the underlying conduct triggers a more serious DOJ category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1341

Mail Fraud

Commonly falls in the general felony category unless the facts involve conduct listed in a stronger presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1344

Bank Fraud

Usually a nonviolent financial felony, but DOJ may consider the size, sophistication, related offenses, and any threatening or violent conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. § 7201

Tax Evasion

Generally a nonviolent federal tax felony and not, by name alone, one of DOJ’s permanent violent-offense categories.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1347

Health Care Fraud

Usually analyzed as a nonviolent financial felony, subject to the actual conduct and companion counts.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1348 or other federal/state securities statutes

Securities Fraud

Often a nonviolent white-collar felony, but the exact statute and underlying conduct control.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often charged under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, 1344, 1014, or state law

Mortgage Fraud

The restoration analysis depends on the actual statute because “mortgage fraud” is a description used for several different offenses.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often charged under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343, 1344, 1014, 1001, or related statutes

PPP Loan Fraud

PPP fraud is a charging description, not one single offense; the conviction statutes control the firearm analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1956 and 1957

Money Laundering

Not automatically a violent offense; the restoration analysis often depends on the unlawful activity underlying the laundering count.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 371 or another offense-specific conspiracy statute

Conspiracy

Conspiracy is highly fact-dependent because the object of the agreement can range from financial fraud to drug trafficking or violent crime.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1001

False Statements to the Federal Government

Typically a nonviolent federal felony, although the surrounding investigation and related charges matter.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1028 or applicable state law

Identity Theft

Usually nonviolent, but identity-theft cases often travel with fraud, conspiracy, or aggravated identity-theft counts.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1028A

Aggravated Identity Theft

A federal identity offense commonly imposed alongside an underlying fraud felony and a mandatory consecutive prison term.

Read the gun-rights guide → Various federal or state statutes, including 18 U.S.C. §§ 641, 656, or 664

Embezzlement

Usually a nonviolent property or financial felony, but the exact statute and relationship to the victim matter.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 201 or applicable federal/state bribery law

Bribery

Generally a public-integrity or corruption offense rather than a violent offense, but the specific conduct controls.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1030

Computer Fraud / CFAA

Computer-related felonies range from unauthorized access and fraud to conduct connected with extortion or threats.

Read the gun-rights guide → Commonly 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 846, 952, 960, or state equivalents

Drug Trafficking

DOJ currently places drug trafficking, manufacturing, selling, distributing, importing, or exporting in a 10-year presumptive-disqualification category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Commonly 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) or state equivalents

Possession With Intent to Distribute

Typically treated as drug-distribution conduct and therefore within DOJ’s current 10-year drug-trafficking presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)

Felon in Possession of a Firearm

A firearm-related federal conviction that can create a more difficult restoration record than a non-firearm felony.

Read the gun-rights guide → May involve 18 U.S.C. §§ 922, 923, 932, 933, or related statutes

Firearm Trafficking or Unlicensed Firearm Dealing

Firearm-related criminal conduct is specifically treated as more serious under DOJ’s restoration framework.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state robbery statutes, including 18 U.S.C. §§ 1951 or 2113 in some cases

Robbery

Robbery is specifically identified by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Usually a state felony; some federal statutes may apply in specialized settings

Burglary

Burglary is specifically listed by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → State law or federal assault statutes such as 18 U.S.C. § 113 in some cases

Aggravated Assault

Assault and battery conduct is treated as a serious violent category under DOJ’s current rule.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state arson statutes, including 18 U.S.C. § 844(i) in some federal cases

Arson

Arson is expressly listed by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2119 or applicable state law

Carjacking

Carjacking is specifically identified by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → May involve 18 U.S.C. § 1951, § 875, other federal statutes, or state law

Extortion

DOJ’s current rule lists extortion as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1512 or applicable state law

Witness Tampering

Witness tampering is specifically identified by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1962 or state racketeering laws

RICO / Racketeering

The federal rule specifically treats violent racketeering as a permanent presumptive category; nonviolent racketeering still requires fact-specific review.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state and federal jurisdiction

Felony Theft / Larceny

Ordinary nonviolent theft is not the same category as robbery or burglary under DOJ’s current framework.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal statutes can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 471–473 and others

Forgery

Typically a nonviolent fraud or document offense unless connected with a more serious underlying scheme.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often 18 U.S.C. § 1029 or state access-device/fraud statutes

Credit Card Fraud

Usually a nonviolent financial felony unless the case includes robbery, threats, identity-theft conduct, or another more serious category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal cases often use 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341 or 1343

Insurance Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud offense, but staged accidents, arson, threats, or bodily injury can move the case into a more serious restoration category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often charged under 18 U.S.C. §§ 1343, 1001, 1028A, or state law

Unemployment Fraud

Typically a nonviolent financial felony, with the analysis driven by the actual counts and any identity-related companion charges.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 157 and related bankruptcy offenses

Bankruptcy Fraud

Generally a nonviolent federal financial felony unless the case includes threats, obstruction, or another separately listed type of conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. § 7206(1) and related tax statutes

Filing a False Tax Return

Usually a nonviolent federal tax felony and generally analyzed as an other felony unless the case includes separately disqualifying conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often 18 U.S.C. §§ 471–473 or related state/federal statutes

Counterfeiting

Usually a nonviolent financial or document felony, but the exact conduct and any connected fraud, theft, or weapons offense can change the analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal cases can involve 18 U.S.C. § 513 or fraud statutes

Check Fraud

Typically a nonviolent financial felony, with the exact charging statute and related identity or theft conduct controlling.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1542 and related passport statutes

Passport Fraud

Usually a nonviolent document or false-statement felony, unless the underlying case includes trafficking, terrorism, violence, or another listed category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often 18 U.S.C. § 1546 or related immigration statutes

Visa or Immigration Fraud

Usually a nonviolent document or fraud felony, but the person’s current immigration status and any smuggling or trafficking conduct can independently matter.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal cases can include 18 U.S.C. § 2315

Receiving Stolen Property

Usually a property felony distinct from robbery or burglary when the conviction does not involve force, threats, or unlawful entry.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal interstate vehicle offenses can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 2312–2313

Motor Vehicle Theft / Grand Theft Auto

Ordinary vehicle theft is generally different from carjacking; force or threats used to take a vehicle can move the case into a permanent presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Usually charged under state organized-retail-theft, theft, conspiracy, or receiving-stolen-property laws

Organized Retail Theft

Often a nonviolent property felony, but burglary, robbery, threats, or gang-related conduct can change the federal restoration category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1621, 1623 or state perjury statutes

Perjury

Usually a nonviolent truthfulness offense and generally distinct from witness tampering or violent obstruction.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 1503, 1512, 1519, or state obstruction statutes

Obstruction of Justice

Highly fact-specific because nonviolent document obstruction is different from witness tampering, threats, or violent interference.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often state law or federal statutes such as 18 U.S.C. §§ 1512(c), 1519

Evidence Tampering

Often nonviolent obstruction, but the analysis changes if the conduct included witness intimidation, threats, or violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 751 or comparable state escape statutes

Escape from Custody

DOJ currently identifies escape or rescue of a person in custody as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 3146 or comparable state statutes

Failure to Appear / Bail Jumping

The conviction itself may be an other felony, while an unresolved fugitive status is a separate current-status presumptive disqualifier.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1201 or comparable state kidnapping statutes

Kidnapping

Kidnapping is expressly included in DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1112 or state manslaughter statutes

Manslaughter

Because DOJ’s permanent category includes felonies involving the death of another person, manslaughter ordinarily presents a permanent presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1111 or state murder/homicide statutes

Murder / Homicide

Felony conduct involving the death of another person is within DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. Chapter 109A or comparable state sex-offense statutes

Sexual Assault / Rape

Rape, sexual abuse, and sexual assault are expressly included in DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal offenses can fall within 18 U.S.C. Chapter 109A and related statutes

Child Sexual Abuse / Child Molestation

Sexual abuse is in DOJ’s permanent presumptive category, and sex-offender registration can create an additional current-status issue.

Read the gun-rights guide → Common federal statutes include 18 U.S.C. §§ 2251, 2252, 2252A

Child Pornography / CSAM

Highly fact-specific: production or abuse-related conduct can implicate permanent categories, while current sex-offender registration may independently create a status presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal offenses can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 2261 and related statutes

Felony Domestic Violence

Intimate-partner or domestic violence is expressly included in DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2261A or comparable state stalking statutes

Felony Stalking

Stalking is specifically included in DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal offenses can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 1589–1591; state statutes also apply

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is expressly included in DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 8 U.S.C. § 1324 and related immigration statutes

Alien Smuggling

The offense is not the same as human trafficking; nonviolent smuggling can fall in the general felony category, while coercive or trafficking conduct can be treated more severely.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 846 or comparable state conspiracy statutes

Drug Conspiracy

A conspiracy to manufacture, distribute, import, export, or dispense controlled substances falls within DOJ’s ten-year drug-trafficking presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1) or comparable state drug-manufacturing statutes

Manufacturing Controlled Substances

Drug manufacturing is expressly within DOJ’s ten-year controlled-substance trafficking category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; some repeat or specialized federal possession offenses can be felonies

Felony Drug Possession

Simple possession is distinct from trafficking. A felony possession conviction may fall in the general five-year category unless the conduct involved intent to distribute or another listed factor.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1029 or comparable state statutes

Access Device Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud felony, but related identity theft, organized theft, or other conduct can change the federal restoration analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 42 U.S.C. § 408 and related federal statutes

Social Security Fraud

Commonly a nonviolent benefits-fraud felony evaluated under the general felony framework unless companion conduct creates a stronger category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 7 U.S.C. § 2024 or comparable state statutes

SNAP / Food Stamp Fraud

Typically a nonviolent public-benefits fraud offense unless the case also involved trafficking, threats, organized violence, or other separately listed conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1347 and related health-care statutes

Medicare Fraud

Generally a nonviolent health-care fraud felony, but kickbacks, money laundering, identity theft, obstruction, or threats can create separate issues.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 201, 666, 1346 and state corruption statutes

Public Corruption

Public-corruption felonies are often nonviolent but can involve bribery, extortion, obstruction, or threats that require separate analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, 1346

Honest Services Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or corruption offense, commonly involving bribery or kickbacks.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can involve 18 U.S.C. §§ 287, 1001, 1031, 1341, 1343 or state equivalents

Procurement Fraud

Typically a nonviolent government-contract or bidding fraud felony, though bribery, kickbacks, and obstruction can create additional issues.

Read the gun-rights guide → Often charged under 18 U.S.C. §§ 287, 1001, 1341, 1343 or program-specific statutes

Grant Fraud

Generally a nonviolent financial offense, subject to a broader review when identity theft, bribery, or obstruction is also involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → 31 U.S.C. § 5324

Structuring Financial Transactions

Typically a nonviolent financial reporting felony, but money laundering, drug trafficking, or other source-of-funds offenses can materially change the analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1960

Unlicensed Money Transmitting

Often a nonviolent financial-regulatory felony, but cases involving criminal proceeds, sanctions evasion, or organized crime can be treated more seriously.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 542, 545 and related customs statutes

Customs Fraud

Usually a nonviolent trade or importation felony, subject to closer review when contraband, weapons, trafficking, or organized crime is involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 545 and related federal or state statutes

Smuggling Goods

The presumption depends heavily on what was smuggled and how the offense was carried out.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2320

Trafficking in Counterfeit Goods

Usually a nonviolent intellectual-property or commercial felony unless the operation also involved organized violence, threats, or other serious conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1832

Trade Secret Theft

Generally a nonviolent economic-crime felony, while foreign-government involvement can implicate the separate economic-espionage statute.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1831

Economic Espionage

A serious federal economic-security offense involving theft or misuse of trade secrets for the benefit of a foreign government, instrumentality, or agent.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2314

Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property

Usually a theft or property felony, but organized theft, robbery, threats, or violence can create a stronger restoration issue.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1708 and related postal statutes

Mail Theft

Commonly a nonviolent property felony, though identity theft, fraud, robbery, or violence can make the case more serious.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1361 and related statutes

Destruction of Federal Property

Treatment depends on whether the offense involved simple property damage, fire, explosives, threats, or dangerous conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 242

Civil Rights Violation Under Color of Law

The restoration posture depends on the deprivation and whether the offense involved bodily injury, dangerous weapons, sexual abuse, kidnapping, or death.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal offenses can include 18 U.S.C. § 249; state hate-crime statutes vary

Felony Hate Crime

Felony hate-crime cases commonly involve violence, attempted violence, or bodily injury and can therefore face a permanent public-safety presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 875(c) and related threat statutes

Interstate Threats

Threatening violence is a serious public-safety factor and can fall within DOJ’s permanent presumptive framework depending on the offense and conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 111

Assault on a Federal Officer

Often a violent felony; the severity depends on bodily injury, weapon use, and the statutory subsection of conviction.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; felony treatment may depend on repeat offenses, injury, or other aggravating facts

Felony DUI / DWI

The restoration analysis depends on why the DUI became a felony and whether the case involved injury, death, repeated dangerous conduct, or current substance-use concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal analogues can arise in federal jurisdictions

Vehicular Homicide

A homicide offense involving a vehicle can create a permanent presumptive issue depending on the statute and level of culpability.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal statutes may apply in limited jurisdictions

Felony Child Abuse

Child-abuse felonies frequently involve assaultive or violent conduct and can trigger a permanent public-safety presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; offenses may involve physical abuse, neglect, exploitation, or financial theft

Felony Elder Abuse

The restoration category depends on whether the offense was financial exploitation, neglect, or assaultive abuse.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(a)(6), 932 and related statutes

Firearm Straw Purchase / False Firearm Acquisition

A firearm-related felony receives heightened scrutiny; the exact conduct, recipient, intent, and any trafficking connection matter.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(1)(A) and related statutes

Unlawful Dealing in Firearms

A firearm-commerce felony involving unlicensed dealing can face enhanced scrutiny, especially when trafficking, prohibited buyers, or criminal use is involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can involve 18 U.S.C. §§ 1014, 1344, 1343 or state fraud statutes

Fraudulent Loan Application

Usually a nonviolent financial felony involving false statements or fraud in obtaining credit.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal property offenses can include 18 U.S.C. § 1361

Felony Vandalism / Malicious Destruction

Property-damage felonies can range from nonviolent vandalism to arson, explosives, or dangerous conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → Usually state law; federal robbery statutes can apply depending on the victim, property, or interstate nexus

Armed Robbery

A robbery offense involving a weapon is ordinarily treated as violent conduct and can fall within DOJ’s permanent presumptive-disqualifier framework.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2113

Bank Robbery

Federal bank robbery commonly involves force, violence, intimidation, or aggravated weapon conduct and is generally a permanent-presumption offense.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1951

Hobbs Act Robbery

Hobbs Act robbery is a federal robbery offense affecting interstate commerce and ordinarily falls within the permanent robbery presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; often a burglary or breaking-and-entering felony with dwelling-specific aggravators

Home Invasion

Home invasion commonly overlaps burglary, assault, threats, or weapons conduct and can therefore fall within a permanent presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal analogues may include 18 U.S.C. §§ 111 or 113 in applicable jurisdictions

Assault With a Deadly Weapon

A felony assault involving a deadly weapon is ordinarily violent conduct and generally fits DOJ’s permanent assault/battery presumption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; felony status often depends on serious injury, victim status, strangulation, or other aggravating facts

Felony Battery / Serious Bodily Injury

Felony battery is assaultive conduct and generally falls within DOJ’s permanent presumptive framework.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; felony treatment usually requires conduct creating a substantial risk of death or serious injury

Felony Reckless Endangerment

Treatment depends on the conduct. A non-contact reckless-endangerment felony may differ from a case involving threats, firearm discharge, assault, or actual injury.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal threat statutes may also apply

Terroristic Threats / Criminal Threats

Threats of violence are expressly subject to a ten-year presumptive disqualification unless the conduct qualifies for a stronger permanent category.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; felony grading can depend on speed, injury, repeat conduct, or reckless driving

Felony Fleeing and Eluding Police

The federal restoration category depends on whether the offense involved threats, assaultive conduct, serious injury, or death.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; felony treatment often depends on force, injury, or weapon use

Felony Resisting Arrest Causing Injury

When resisting arrest includes assault, battery, injury, or violence, it can fall within DOJ’s permanent presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(j) or comparable state law

Possession of a Stolen Firearm

Possessing, receiving, or disposing of a stolen firearm is within DOJ’s ten-year category for certain firearm-related conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(u)

Theft of Firearms From a Licensed Dealer

Theft of firearms from a federally licensed dealer is specifically within DOJ’s ten-year firearm-related category and may overlap burglary or robbery.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(6) and related false-record statutes

False Statement to a Firearms Dealer

A false-statement firearm acquisition offense requires heightened scrutiny; classification depends on whether it was limited paperwork conduct or part of trafficking, straw purchasing, or acquisition for a prohibited person.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 924(c)

Using or Carrying a Firearm During a Crime — § 924(c)

A conviction involving use, carrying, brandishing, or discharge of a firearm during a qualifying crime is among the strongest restoration concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. § 5861(d) and related National Firearms Act provisions

Possession of an Unregistered NFA Firearm

An NFA firearm felony is firearm-related conduct and generally falls within DOJ’s ten-year presumptive category unless stronger facts apply.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(o) and related federal or state law

Machinegun Possession or Transfer

Conduct prohibited by § 922(o) is expressly within DOJ’s ten-year firearm-related presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(d) and comparable state laws

Sale or Transfer of a Firearm to a Prohibited Person

A transfer-to-prohibited-person felony is firearm-related conduct; the restoration category depends on the statute, recipient, knowledge, and related trafficking or violent facts.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal charges can include 18 U.S.C. §§ 844(e), 1038; state statutes vary

Bomb Threat / False Bomb Report

Threats of violence are generally subject to a ten-year presumption, while actual explosive use can lead to stronger treatment.

Read the gun-rights guide → State riot statutes vary; federal offenses can include 18 U.S.C. § 231

Felony Riot / Civil Disorder

The category depends on whether the conviction involved violence, assault, threats, property damage, fire, explosives, or weapons.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal animal-cruelty statutes can apply in limited circumstances

Felony Animal Cruelty

Animal abuse is specifically included in DOJ’s ten-year presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 7 U.S.C. § 2156 and state animal-fighting laws

Animal Fighting / Dog Fighting

Animal-fighting felonies involve animal abuse and generally fall within DOJ’s ten-year presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 641 and comparable state or local public-property laws

Theft of Government Property

Usually a nonviolent property felony unless the conduct involved force, threats, burglary, robbery, or other aggravating facts.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 666

Federal Program Bribery or Theft

Usually a public-corruption or theft felony; treatment depends on whether the case was bribery, embezzlement, theft, threats, or other conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 664

Embezzlement From an Employee Benefit Plan

Usually a nonviolent financial felony involving theft or conversion from an employee pension or welfare benefit plan.

Read the gun-rights guide → Commonly prosecuted under federal securities laws, including 15 U.S.C. §§ 78j(b), 78ff and related rules

Insider Trading

Generally a nonviolent securities felony, subject to the exact charges and any related fraud, obstruction, or money-laundering conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can involve 7 U.S.C. §§ 6, 9, 13 and 18 U.S.C. § 1348, depending on the conduct

Commodities Fraud / Market Manipulation

Usually a nonviolent financial or market-integrity felony unless accompanied by threats, obstruction, or other serious conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 15 U.S.C. §§ 78dd-1, 78dd-2, 78dd-3 and related provisions

Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Bribery

Usually a nonviolent foreign-bribery or books-and-records felony; related money laundering, fraud, or obstruction can affect the analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → Can involve the Arms Export Control Act, Export Control Reform Act, IEEPA, and implementing regulations

Felony Export Control Violations

Often a national-security or trade-control felony; firearm or defense-article trafficking facts can lead to heightened scrutiny.

Read the gun-rights guide → 50 U.S.C. §§ 1701–1708 and related sanctions statutes and regulations

Sanctions Evasion / IEEPA Violation

Usually a nonviolent national-security or financial felony, but the destination, counterparties, goods, and related conduct can materially affect review.

Read the gun-rights guide → 17 U.S.C. § 506 and 18 U.S.C. § 2319

Felony Criminal Copyright Infringement

Generally a nonviolent intellectual-property felony unless the case includes other fraud, trafficking, threats, or organized-crime conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 287

False Claims Against the United States

Usually a nonviolent federal fraud offense and generally analyzed in the other-felony category unless the underlying conduct adds a stronger disqualifying factor.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1031

Major Fraud Against the United States

Generally a nonviolent federal procurement or contracting fraud felony, subject to the actual conduct and any companion charges.

Read the gun-rights guide → 20 U.S.C. § 1097 or related federal fraud statutes

Student Loan / Federal Student Aid Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud felony, although identity theft, wire fraud, conspiracy, or false-statement counts can change the analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1040 and related fraud statutes

Disaster Relief Fraud

Usually a nonviolent federal fraud offense unless the case includes threats, identity theft, bribery, or other separately serious conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → State welfare-fraud statutes and federal benefit-fraud laws

Welfare Benefits Fraud

Usually a nonviolent benefits or false-statement felony, with the exact state or federal statute controlling the restoration analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal fraud statutes may apply in some cases

Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Usually a nonviolent insurance or benefits fraud felony unless the underlying facts include threats, staged violence, or another serious offense.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1347, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b, or state Medicaid-fraud statutes

Medicaid Fraud

Usually a nonviolent health-care or financial felony, but kickbacks, identity theft, obstruction, or related offenses can alter the analysis.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. § 7212(a)

Corrupt Interference With the IRS / Tax Obstruction

Usually a nonviolent federal tax-administration felony, but threats or force against officials can create a materially different restoration issue.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Theft by Deception

Usually a nonviolent property felony when it does not involve force, threats, burglary, or robbery.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Theft by Conversion

Usually a nonviolent property or fiduciary felony, subject to the exact elements and any related fraud or embezzlement counts.

Read the gun-rights guide → State theft statutes, 18 U.S.C. §§ 659, 2314, 2315, or related laws

Cargo Theft

Usually a property or interstate-theft felony, but organized-crime, robbery, weapons, or conspiracy facts can create a stronger restoration issue.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Felony Shoplifting / First-Degree Retail Fraud

Usually a nonviolent property felony when the conviction is based on value, repetition, or organized conduct rather than force or threats.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Breaking and Entering

Often overlaps with burglary; whether DOJ treats the conduct as a permanent burglary-category offense depends on the elements and underlying facts.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Possession of Burglary Tools

Usually an inchoate or preparatory property offense, but the surrounding burglary conduct can materially affect the restoration category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1503, § 1512, or state jury-tampering statutes

Jury Tampering

A serious obstruction offense; threats, intimidation, bribery, or witness-tampering conduct can place the case in a stronger presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 201, § 1512, or comparable state law

Bribery of a Witness

Often overlaps with witness tampering, a category DOJ treats as permanently presumptively disqualifying.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state; federal firearm status can also arise under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8)

Felony Violation of a Protective Order

Highly fact-specific because the violation may involve stalking, threats, domestic violence, or a separate active restraining-order firearm prohibition.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2250 or state registration statutes

Sex Offender Registration Violation

The registration offense itself may be nonviolent, but the underlying sex offense often creates the more important restoration issue.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state child-solicitation statutes, including 18 U.S.C. § 2422 in some cases

Online Solicitation of a Minor

A serious sex-related offense that can involve attempted sexual abuse, enticement, or exploitation; the exact conduct can place the case in a permanent presumptive category.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2422 or state child-enticement/luring statutes

Child Enticement / Luring

A serious child-safety offense that may overlap with sexual exploitation, kidnapping, stalking, or attempted abuse.

Read the gun-rights guide → Varies by state

Felony Indecent Exposure

Can range from a non-contact public-order offense to conduct involving coercion, minors, or sexual assault; the factual basis is critical.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 2261A or state cyberstalking statutes

Cyberstalking

Stalking is expressly treated by DOJ as a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category, including conduct carried out through electronic communications when it qualifies as stalking.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 912

Impersonating a Federal Officer

Usually a nonviolent federal false-personation felony unless used to facilitate robbery, kidnapping, weapons offenses, or other serious conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1425 and related immigration statutes

Naturalization Fraud

Usually a nonviolent document or immigration fraud felony, though immigration status after conviction can separately affect firearm eligibility.

Read the gun-rights guide → 8 U.S.C. § 1325(c) and related fraud or conspiracy statutes

Marriage Fraud

Usually a nonviolent immigration fraud felony, but current immigration status and companion document-fraud charges can independently matter.

Read the gun-rights guide → 8 U.S.C. § 1326

Illegal Reentry After Removal

A federal immigration offense that can be a felony; present immigration status can independently create a firearm prohibition under federal law.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1791 or state correctional-contraband statutes

Possession of Prison Contraband

The restoration category depends heavily on what the contraband was; weapons, explosives, or controlled substances can produce much stronger issues than ordinary prohibited items.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. §§ 5845, 5861 or 18 U.S.C. explosives/firearm statutes

Possession of a Destructive Device

A serious firearm or explosive-device offense that receives heightened scrutiny and may implicate permanent or other strong presumptive categories depending on conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 842–844 or state explosives laws

Unlawful Possession of Explosives

A serious explosives offense; the restoration analysis depends on the material, intent, licensing status, and whether threats or violent conduct were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)

Possession of Ammunition by a Prohibited Person

A federal prohibited-person offense involving ammunition rather than a firearm; it can make the restoration record more difficult because it reflects firearm-law noncompliance after the original disability arose.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1113 or state attempted-murder statutes

Attempted Murder

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves intended killing, grave violence, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 373, state solicitation statutes, or murder-for-hire statutes

Solicitation to Commit Murder

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves intended killing, grave violence, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State assault-with-intent statutes or related attempted-homicide statutes

Assault With Intent to Murder

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves intended killing, grave violence, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1201 or state aggravated-kidnapping statutes

Aggravated Kidnapping

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves intended killing, grave violence, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State unlawful-imprisonment, criminal-confinement, or false-imprisonment statutes

Unlawful Imprisonment

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or retaliation against protected persons.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1513 or state retaliation-against-witness statutes

Witness Retaliation

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or retaliation against protected persons.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 115 or state retaliation statutes

Retaliation Against a Judge

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or retaliation against protected persons.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 115 or state retaliation-against-officer statutes

Retaliation Against Law Enforcement

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or retaliation against protected persons.

Read the gun-rights guide → State leaving-the-scene statutes involving bodily injury or death

Felony Hit and Run Causing Injury

A serious vehicle-related felony. The restoration analysis often turns on whether the case involved serious bodily injury, death, intoxication, intentional assaultive driving, or flight from police.

Read the gun-rights guide → State vehicular-assault or assault-by-vehicle statutes

Vehicular Assault

A serious vehicle-related felony. The restoration analysis often turns on whether the case involved serious bodily injury, death, intoxication, intentional assaultive driving, or flight from police.

Read the gun-rights guide → State reckless-driving felony statutes

Reckless Driving Causing Serious Injury

A serious vehicle-related felony. The restoration analysis often turns on whether the case involved serious bodily injury, death, intoxication, intentional assaultive driving, or flight from police.

Read the gun-rights guide → State child-neglect or child-endangerment statutes

Child Neglect Causing Serious Injury

A felony involving harm or substantial risk of harm to a child, which draws heightened scrutiny under any public-safety review.

Read the gun-rights guide → State child-endangerment or welfare-of-a-child statutes

Endangering the Welfare of a Child

A child-endangerment type felony. How serious DOJ will treat it depends on whether the case involved actual injury, sexual conduct, drugs, violence, or a substantial risk to a child.

Read the gun-rights guide → State aggravated animal-cruelty statutes

Aggravated Animal Cruelty

An animal-cruelty felony. Aggravated cruelty can be treated more seriously than a general property offense because it reflects intentional harmful conduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1955 or comparable state gambling-enterprise statutes

Illegal Gambling Business

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 15 U.S.C. §§ 78i, 78j, Rule 10b-5, or related state securities laws

Securities Market Manipulation

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7b and related fraud or conspiracy statutes

Healthcare Kickback Violations

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 843(a), state prescription-fraud statutes, or related fraud counts

Prescription Fraud

Usually a drug-related felony that may be treated more moderately than a major trafficking case, but still carries serious federal firearm consequences.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. §§ 841, 846 and related health-care or drug-distribution statutes

Pill Mill Conspiracy

A serious drug-trafficking felony. Drug-distribution conduct, especially involving minors, schools, or organized supply, often receives harsher treatment than simple possession offenses.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 856 or state drug-house statutes

Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises

Usually a drug-related felony that may be treated more moderately than a major trafficking case, but still carries serious federal firearm consequences.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 860 or state school-zone drug statutes

Drug Distribution Near a School

A serious drug-trafficking felony. Drug-distribution conduct, especially involving minors, schools, or organized supply, often receives harsher treatment than simple possession offenses.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 859 or state enhanced-distribution statutes

Distribution of a Controlled Substance to a Minor

A serious drug-trafficking felony. Drug-distribution conduct, especially involving minors, schools, or organized supply, often receives harsher treatment than simple possession offenses.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 858 and related manufacturing statutes, or state meth-lab statutes

Meth Lab Endangerment

A hazardous drug-manufacturing felony. The presence of toxic chemicals, explosions, fires, or endangered children or bystanders increases the seriousness considerably.

Read the gun-rights guide → 21 U.S.C. § 841(c) or state precursor-chemical statutes

Unlawful Possession of Precursor Chemicals

Usually a drug-related felony that may be treated more moderately than a major trafficking case, but still carries serious federal firearm consequences.

Read the gun-rights guide → 33 U.S.C. § 1319(c) and related environmental statutes

Clean Water Act Felony Violations

Usually a nonviolent environmental felony, but one that may involve deliberate pollution, concealment, or serious risk to public health and safety.

Read the gun-rights guide → 42 U.S.C. § 7413(c) and related environmental statutes

Clean Air Act Felony Violations

Usually a nonviolent environmental felony, but one that may involve deliberate pollution, concealment, or serious risk to public health and safety.

Read the gun-rights guide → 42 U.S.C. § 6928(d) or comparable state hazardous-waste statutes

Hazardous Waste Dumping

Usually a nonviolent environmental felony, but one that may involve deliberate pollution, concealment, or serious risk to public health and safety.

Read the gun-rights guide → Lacey Act, Endangered Species Act, or comparable wildlife-trafficking laws

Wildlife Trafficking

Usually a nonviolent environmental felony, but one that may involve deliberate pollution, concealment, or serious risk to public health and safety.

Read the gun-rights guide → Lacey Act or related import/export and smuggling statutes

Illegal Timber Trafficking

Usually a nonviolent environmental felony, but one that may involve deliberate pollution, concealment, or serious risk to public health and safety.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 2314–2315, customs laws, or cultural-property statutes

Cultural Property Trafficking

A property, trade, or trafficking-related felony usually involving stolen, smuggled, or unlawfully traded goods rather than direct personal violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1204 or similar statutes

International Parental Kidnapping

A serious family or child-custody related felony that can still present meaningful public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1030, 875, 1951, or related conspiracy statutes

Ransomware Extortion

A cybercrime felony with extortion features. The presence of threats, system intrusion, coercion, or disruption makes the case more serious than a routine technical computer offense.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1038 or state false-report statutes

Swatting / False Emergency Report

A public-safety threat felony involving false alarms, emergency responses, or threats that can cause panic and substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → State terroristic-threats, bomb-threat, or school-threat statutes

Threat Against a School

A public-safety threat felony involving false alarms, emergency responses, or threats that can cause panic and substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → State organized-crime enterprise statutes

Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity

An organized-crime or criminal-enterprise felony. The seriousness depends on the underlying offenses and the role the person played in the enterprise.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1801 or state voyeurism statutes

Unlawful Surveillance / Voyeurism

A privacy or recording-related felony. These cases are often nonviolent, but the underlying conduct can still raise serious concerns about exploitation, stalking, or sexual misconduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → State eavesdropping, secret-recording, or privacy statutes

Invasion of Privacy by Recording

A privacy or recording-related felony. These cases are often nonviolent, but the underlying conduct can still raise serious concerns about exploitation, stalking, or sexual misconduct.

Read the gun-rights guide → State promoting-prostitution, pandering, or commercial-sex statutes

Promoting Prostitution

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, exploitation, or abuse of process were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. §§ 7202, 7206 and related tax statutes

Payroll Tax Fraud

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1521 or state false-lien statutes

Filing a False Lien or False Encumbrance

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, exploitation, or abuse of process were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → State notary-public fraud statutes or related forgery/false-statement laws

Notary Fraud

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 52 U.S.C. §§ 30109, 30122 or related false-statement and fraud statutes

Campaign Finance Fraud

A public-corruption or election-integrity felony that can be treated more seriously than an ordinary paperwork offense because it undermines governmental integrity.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 664 or related fiduciary-theft statutes

Pension Embezzlement

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 29 U.S.C. § 501(c) or related labor-fund theft statutes

Union Embezzlement

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1546, immigration-fraud statutes, or conspiracy statutes

Refugee or Asylum Fraud

Usually a nonviolent immigration-related fraud felony. The conviction and the person’s current immigration status may each matter separately.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 641, 1001, SSA fraud statutes, or state benefits-fraud laws

Disability Benefits Fraud

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 287, 641, 1001 or VA-related fraud statutes

Veterans Benefits Fraud

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. §§ 1341, 1343, FTC-related telemarketing statutes, or conspiracy

Telemarketing Fraud

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State exploitation-of-vulnerable-adult statutes, larceny, embezzlement, or fraud laws

Elder Financial Exploitation

A financial-exploitation felony often involving a vulnerable adult. Even when the charge is nonviolent, exploitation of an elderly victim can be treated as an aggravating public-interest factor.

Read the gun-rights guide → 15 U.S.C. § 1 and related antitrust statutes

Bid Rigging / Antitrust Conspiracy

Usually a nonviolent business, fraud, or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State attempted voluntary manslaughter statutes or attempted-homicide statutes

Attempted Voluntary Manslaughter

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State strangulation assault statutes

Assault by Strangulation

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State domestic-violence strangulation statutes

Domestic Assault by Strangulation

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State torture statutes or aggravated assault/torture charges

Torture

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State mayhem or maiming statutes

Mayhem / Maiming

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State drive-by shooting statutes

Drive-By Shooting

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State shooting-into-dwelling or occupied structure statutes

Shooting Into a Dwelling

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State occupied-building firearm discharge statutes

Discharging a Firearm Into an Occupied Building

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State firearm-from-vehicle statutes

Discharging a Firearm From a Vehicle

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State armed home-invasion statutes

Armed Home Invasion

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1203 or state hostage-taking statutes

Hostage Taking

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → State custodial-interference or child-concealment statutes

Felony Custodial Interference

A serious family or child-custody related felony that can still present meaningful public-safety or child-welfare concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal trafficking statutes or state aggravated trafficking laws

Aggravated Human Trafficking

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State child-prostitution or commercial sexual exploitation statutes

Promoting Child Prostitution

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State child-abandonment statutes

Felony Child Abandonment

A child-endangerment type felony. How serious DOJ will treat it depends on whether the case involved actual injury, exposure to danger, abuse, or other aggravating factors.

Read the gun-rights guide → State poisoning or adulteration statutes

Poisoning Food or Water

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state explosives-use statutes

Criminal Use of Explosives

A public-safety threat felony involving explosives, threats, false alarms, or conduct that can cause panic, injury, or substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → State Molotov cocktail or incendiary-device statutes

Unlawful Use of an Incendiary Device

A public-safety threat felony involving explosives, threats, false alarms, or conduct that can cause panic, injury, or substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state bomb-materials statutes

Possession of Bomb-Making Materials

A public-safety threat felony involving explosives, threats, false alarms, or conduct that can cause panic, injury, or substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state explosive-device statutes

Detonating an Explosive Device

A serious violent felony that typically fits a permanent or exceptionally strong presumptive-disqualifier category because the conduct involves extreme violence, deadly force, or comparable public-safety concerns.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1028 or state ID-document fraud statutes

Fraudulent Use of Identification Documents

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 1028 or state identification-document forgery laws

Identification Document Forgery

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. tax fraud statutes, 18 U.S.C. fraud statutes, or state tax-refund laws

Tax Refund Fraud

Usually a nonviolent tax or financial felony. The restoration analysis often turns on sentence completion, later record, and whether the offense involved repeated deceit or companion fraud counts.

Read the gun-rights guide → State embezzlement statutes or federal theft/fraud laws

Corporate Embezzlement

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State wage-theft statutes, theft-by-conversion, or labor-fraud laws

Felony Wage Theft

Usually a nonviolent business-regulation or commercial-theft related felony. It can still matter for federal restoration, but it is generally reviewed differently than violent or firearm offenses.

Read the gun-rights guide → State theft, receiving stolen property, or organized auto-parts theft statutes

Catalytic Converter Theft

A property or trafficking-related felony usually involving stolen, altered, or unlawfully traded goods rather than direct personal violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 49 U.S.C. Chapter 327 or state odometer-fraud statutes

Odometer Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State title fraud or false-title statutes

Vehicle Title Washing Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State fraud statutes, mail/wire fraud, or title-related offenses

Real Estate Closing Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State theft or fraud statutes, or federal mail/wire fraud laws

Escrow Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. fraud statutes, identity-theft statutes, or state fraud laws

Synthetic Identity Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → Mail fraud, wire fraud, identity theft, or state theft-by-deception laws

Romance Scam Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → Mail/wire fraud, telemarketing fraud statutes, or state fraud laws

Elder Telemarketing Fraud

A financial-exploitation felony often involving a vulnerable or elderly victim. Even when the charge is nonviolent, exploitation of a vulnerable victim can be treated as an aggravating public-interest factor.

Read the gun-rights guide → State charitable-fraud statutes or federal fraud laws

Charitable Solicitation Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → Wire fraud, securities fraud, commodities fraud, or related state fraud statutes

Cryptocurrency Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → Investment Advisers Act provisions, securities fraud laws, or state securities statutes

Investment Adviser Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → 26 U.S.C. tax fraud statutes, aiding false returns, or related fraud laws

Tax Preparer Fraud

Usually a nonviolent tax or financial felony. The restoration analysis often turns on sentence completion, later record, and whether the offense involved repeated deceit or companion fraud counts.

Read the gun-rights guide → Mail/wire fraud, bank fraud, or state mortgage-related fraud statutes

Mortgage Servicing Fraud

Usually a nonviolent fraud or financial felony. It can still support a federal firearm disability, but the restoration analysis is often driven by recency, sophistication, amount of loss, and later history rather than violence.

Read the gun-rights guide → State aggravated-harassment statutes

Aggravated Harassment

A public-safety threat felony involving explosives, threats, false alarms, or conduct that can cause panic, injury, or substantial disruption.

Read the gun-rights guide → State stalking and protective-order statutes

Stalking With a Protective-Order Violation

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. § 752 or state aiding-escape statutes

Aiding or Assisting an Escape

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, abuse of process, or exploitation were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → Federal or state protected-employee assault statutes

Assault on a Correctional Officer

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State assault-on-EMS or protected-worker assault statutes

Assault on an Emergency Medical Worker

A serious violent or coercive felony that receives heightened scrutiny because it involves force, threats, unlawful restraint, or targeted harm.

Read the gun-rights guide → State intimidation statutes or 18 U.S.C. threat/retaliation statutes

Intimidation of a Public Official

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, abuse of process, or exploitation were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → State doxxing, harassment, stalking, or retaliation statutes

Retaliatory Doxxing

A privacy or harassment-related felony. These cases are often nonviolent, but the underlying conduct can still raise serious concerns about exploitation, stalking, or intimidation.

Read the gun-rights guide → State cyber-harassment statutes

Felony Cyber Harassment

A privacy or harassment-related felony. These cases are often nonviolent, but the underlying conduct can still raise serious concerns about exploitation, stalking, or intimidation.

Read the gun-rights guide → 18 U.S.C. extortion, cybercrime, or state sextortion statutes

Sextortion

A cybercrime felony with extortion, coercion, or sexual-exploitation features. The presence of threats or exploitation makes the case more serious than a routine technical computer offense.

Read the gun-rights guide → State revenge-porn or nonconsensual-image statutes

Felony Nonconsensual Intimate Image Distribution

A privacy or harassment-related felony. These cases are often nonviolent, but the underlying conduct can still raise serious concerns about exploitation, stalking, or intimidation.

Read the gun-rights guide → State false-personation or impersonating-an-officer statutes

False Personation of a Police Officer

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, abuse of process, or exploitation were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide → State unauthorized-practice, fraud, or impersonation statutes

Impersonating an Attorney

A public-order or integrity-related felony. The practical restoration analysis usually depends on the exact conduct and whether threats, abuse of process, or exploitation were involved.

Read the gun-rights guide →