It’s a little more complicated than that.
While a federal lifetime gun ban exists, some states offer a restoration of gun rights by a judge, based on:
They must be non-violent offenders who did not use weapons in the commission of their crimes, nor do they come under the blanket of “domestic violence”, nor be adjudged to be mentally ill, with the older standard of “representing a threat of harm to themselves or others”, or who are reliant on psychotropic drugs, or addiction to illegal drugs or alcohol.
There is a lot of gray area there, so the judge has considerable discretion. It is perhaps most often refused because of gang ties or involvement with violent criminal conspiracies, behavior in prison or expression of threats against others.
Importantly, ex-cons see the restoration of gun rights as by far the most important of the rights they have lost, since they are frequently victims, so many will go through the hassle for restoration.
The ONLY ‘complication’ is the utter B.S. that you posted (no offense to you, I meant the process).
Either one is a con, which should still be in jail, or a Free man.
To have a Free man ‘lawfully’, even temporarily, denied their Rights, creates a caste/2nd-class citizen.
It is wrong. Period.