All they are forcing you to do is lie. I've been a ccw holder for over 30 years. Just renewed last year. Been a MMJ patient for about 5 years. When you fill out the application where itasks if you do illicit drugs you just check no.
In most states if you've been convicted of a felony its relatively easy to get all your civil rights back again. Usually just stay out of trouble for 5 years and you can file to have them resored. Had friend in Cali that murdered a guy with a busteb beer bottle in a bar fight about 25 years ago. He did 16 years. Came back out and started working his farm again and filed to have his rights restored and even went so far as to file and get a CCW permit because he was carrying quite a lot of cash on him for business. And Cali is one of the toughest states to even get a CCW.
The ATF needs to be gone along with the DEA and quite a few other uneccesary federal agencies. There's a shitload of tax pyers money that could be saved by shutting down some of these federal agencies. There are literally thousands of them that no one has even heard of.