The Pennsylvania State Police must investigate whether a criminal conviction specifically warrants a denial of gun ownership, rather than automatically barring ownership based on a conviction, the state Supreme Court has ruled.

The justices unanimously affirmed a Commonwealth Court ruling that an administrative law judge of the state Attorney General’s Office improperly denied plaintiff Richard Navarro’s application for return of a firearm without showing that the weapon was involved in interstate or foreign commerce.

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