Why do non violent felonies ban you from owning a firearm. If you take a plea offer you still are no different from one who did not. It's your constitutional right to go to trial why lose gun rights?

A felony is a pretty major violation of the law, violent or otherwise. The law doesn't really make distinctions between violent and non-violent felonies, not to mention there really is no way to say for certain that the non-violent felony wouldn't have turned violent. I recall looking over some statistics where a masked robber's likelihood to attack if confronted is in the 90 percentile range. Doesn't really inspire much confidence in "non-violent" felons.

This answer is plain ignorant. A felony can be theft of 300.00 and over, so you can steal 299.00 but still be able to own a gun. If you steal 1,000000.00 dollars they can plea it down to a misdemeanor if they want. Most criminal cases never go to trial and get a plea offer, so if this didn't happen, their would be hundreds of thousands more people with a felony. The Constitution says equal rights, but each state can have different laws that are felonies than others, so how is this equal justice. It's also your constitutional right to have a jury trial, but you are not supposed to be punished more for exercising your right because it would have the same chilling effect as North Caroline vs, Pierce. If you get a DWI, they don't stop you from buying beer, they take away your drivers license. They say the president has no way to restore gun rights unless you were tried in federal court, but that is not true, he does have a way to do it for anyone if he funds a gun act in 1968. There are many non violent felonies and many should not even be considered a felony.