IA Man Busted For Guns While Applying For Rights Restored Gets 18 Days

By Tom Knighton

An Iowa man lost is gun rights decades ago over a weapons charge. After keeping his nose clean for decades, he applied to get his gun rights restored, just as any of us would likely do. After all, the man was a farmer, which means he actually needs firearms in the performance of his work. Like it or not, guns are necessary on a farm as wildlife is not conducive to maximizing crops and predators aren’t known for making friends with livestock.

Unfortunately, it didn’t go well for the farmer.

An Iowa farmer caught possessing firearms after asking the governor to restore the gun rights he lost decades ago has been sentenced to 18 days in jail.

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[Allan] Phillips lost his gun rights for life in 1978 when he was convicted of a misdemeanor weapons charge. He’d been out of trouble for four decades when he applied in 2017 to the governor’s office for clemency to restore his firearms rights.

State agents conducting a background check as part of the clemency process found during an announced home visit in February that Phillips had three shotguns, a long gun and ammunition. Phillips was charged with illegal possession of a firearm as …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms