18 USC § 921(a) - Firearms - Exception To DV/Lautenberg Gun Ban: Expungement/Setting Aside Of DV Conviction

 

Also See:

18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) - Lautenberg Domestic Violence Conviction Gun Ban

MCL 769.4a - Michigan's Loophole To 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9) - Lautenberg Domestic Violence Conviction Gun Ban

18 USC § 922(g)(8) - Personal Protection Order Gun Ban

18 USC § 921(a) - Firearms

(33)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (C),2 the term “misdemeanor crime of domestic violence” means an offense that—

(i) is a misdemeanor under Federal, State, or Tribal 3 law; and

(ii) has, as an element, the use or attempted use of physical force, or the threatened use of a deadly weapon, committed by a current or former spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim, by a person with whom the victim shares a child in common, by a person who is cohabiting with or has cohabited with the victim as a spouse, parent, or guardian, or by a person similarly situated to a spouse, parent, or guardian of the victim.

(33)(B)(ii) A person shall not be considered to have been convicted of such an offense for purposes of this chapter if the conviction has been expunged or set aside, or is an offense for which the person has been pardoned or has had civil rights restored (if the law of the applicable jurisdiction provides for the loss of civil rights under such an offense) unless the pardon, expungement, or restoration of civil rights expressly provides that the person may not ship, transport, possess, or receive firearms.

18 USC § 921(a)--Firearms--Exception-To-DV-Lautenberg-Gun-Ban