Opinion ID: 2033799
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Heading: Does section 724.26, Code Supp. 1977, apply to this defendant?

Text: Defendant's civil rights were restored by the governor of Iowa on May 5, 1976, prior to the effective date of section 724.26. That section provides: Any person who is convicted of a felony in any state or federal court and who subsequently possesses, receives, or transports or causes to be transported a firearm or offensive weapon is guilty of an aggravated misdemeanor. Defendant does not claim to have been expressly authorized ... to receive, transport, or possess firearms or destructive devices under the section 724.27 exception. After the briefs were submitted in this appeal we filed State v. Hall, 301 N.W.2d 729 (Iowa 1981). Our decision there dictates our rejection of defendant's contentions that section 724.26 as applied to him operates in an impermissibly retroactive fashion.