Once your punishment is done, you should get your Rights back.
And until relatively recently, you did. (YMMV depending on your state) Released prisoners could walk to the nearest general store and buy a sidearm, a rifle, or whatever they felt they needed.
33 posted on 03/30/2004 10:43:04 AM PST by El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)