that is false.
I have provided the evidence.
since 1995, 3,300 felons got back their gun rights. And that's just in WA.
Then I was wrong. I was unaware that 11 states automatically restored gun rights. However, federal law prohibits any convicted felon from legally purchasing a firearm, so I don't know how these states get around that. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993 makes federal background checks mandatory, and places these prohibitions as a bar from legal gun ownership:
Has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
Is a fugitive from justice;
Is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance;
Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution;
Is an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States;
Has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
Having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced U.S. citizenship;
Is subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of such intimate partner, or;
Has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence.
Has a record of being a felon
I don't know how any retailer, who must be licensed by the federal government to sell arms, can legally sell arms to felons without facing federal charges.