He didn’t lose his federal gun license he let them expire because he was over 60 and didn’t have the gun shop anymore. More likely just decided he was going to keep a few no matter why the government thought.The conviction wasn’t for cruelty as in hurting the animals it was because he didn’t report a lion that had escaped.It was spotted in a suburb outside of Columbus and recaptured back in 2004.
The mythical Gahanna Lion? To my knowledge, it was never caught.