State prosecutors appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court, insisting Heffley remains under weapons disability, and is thus barred from possessing firearms. Federal statute generally prohibits a person with a misdemeanor or felony domestic violence conviction from having a gun. And until his state civil rights are restored, his federal weapons disability can’t be removed. In its arguments, the state leans on that felony conviction as the weapons disability keeping Heffley from getting a gun. Because federal law considers misdemeanor domestic violence grounds for weapons disability, while Ohio law does not, state courts can’t restore the gun rights of a person with a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction.