There's a lot of if's here. My only point is that it didn't sound like an obvious overreach by prosecution. Would I risk gun ownership if I thought my family

There's a lot of if's here. My only point is that it didn't sound like an obvious overreach by prosecution. Would I risk gun ownership if I thought my family was in imminent danger? Without question. I would have even done so even if I risked significant jail time. But here, it's not just "borrowing" a firearm from a friend, it was an illegal purchase. Did this person look into restoring their gun-rights due to extenuating circumstances? Was justice served? Hard to said because, as I said, we don't have all of the information. But it's also hard to say that somebody convicted of felon in possession of a firearm, who was in fact both a felon and in possession of a firearm, was an abuse of the legal system.