The process is the punishment.
Sure, they're lawyers, but a good lawyer never represents himself. They've paid tens of thousands in legal fees that would only keep growing had they insisted on going to trial.
It's one thing to stick to your principals. It's another thing to go broke doing so, just to prove a point.
They've pleaded to misdemeanors, so they haven't lost their gun rights, and they forfeited the two guns in question as part of the plea deal, but are able to purchase replacements.
Dems will slide in an amendment that if you ever had to forfeit guns you cannot own other ones. Watch and see. The gun grabbers never sleep