Used to be that when the time was served, even pistols were returned to the former felon.
The one that made the change has to justify it.
/johnny
Go ahead and convince us why a child molester gets to return to day care, and a spy gets to return to the FBI, and the drug dealing cop gets to return to being a narcotics detective, and why there is to be no stigmatizing of felons.
You have this peculiar view that after sitting in a cell for a few years staring at the floor, everything is all shiny new again, like nothing ever happened. Sort of like the Star-Trek time travel reset button.