In today's terminology, it is an illegitimate power grab by the federal government. This prohibition will be imposed no matter how long ago the infraction may have occurred. Such serious violence is, and has been for a long time, a felony. An increasingly large number of women are being kept from owning their best means of self defense. This is because police are more and more arresting both partners in a domestic dispute, and getting misdemeanor convictions against both the man and the woman.
Parents can be and have been arrested and convicted for disciplining their children.
This is a domestic violence misdemeanor and has resulted in the loss of gun rights. One candidate in a police academy recently realized that he can never become a cop and never own a gun. But because it was a domestic violence misdemeanor, there will be one less policeman in our country thanks to Sen. Lautenberg. Police departments across the country have begun laying off sworn officers because of convictions twenty and even thirty years ago. The Court ruled that Congress has no authority to pass legislation affecting possession of firearms in so-called school zones.