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  Can't leave the state right now. It's bullshit.
context: This is how we do it in Sweden and it's AFAIK similar in many other European countries.
  If you've done your time you can get a gun license again X years after being out and shown that you can keep being an upstanding citizen. 
  We don't treat criminals as convicts for life. >
  
  It’s really appalling how poorly the United States treats people after they leave prison. This ought to be the start of a process to overturn some of these lifetime bans on certain rights. Unfortunately, gun controller supporters will complain because of the “but guns” exception. >
  
  I'm actually in support of this. In most red states you can get a felony for shit like weed possession. 
  Over 1/3 of black men have felony convictions.
  The game plan in the racist south for a century is jail all the blacks, then take "criminals" rights away. In most red states, felons can't vote, can't own guns, and work slave labor while they're in prison. They are pretty much second class citizens. And they are almost all black >
  
  As a guy with a felony for weed possession, this would be cool. Fuck Alabama. >
  
  If I was you, I would move to Cali or similar. They require background checks to only show last 7 years or so, so you can start over.
  Felonies make you a second class citizen your whole life in shithole red states