2014
Convicted felons are prohibited from possessing firearms, and therefore cannot legally acquire them. Those who acquire firearms for a felon are themselves subject to criminal penalties. However, these cases are not often subject to the heightened media scrutiny and public attention placed on the case of Evan Ebel, a convicted felon and parolee who used a gun to kill Colorado’s prisons chief and a pizza delivery driver. He also shot,
 
             
     
            
 
                 
                 
                 
				 
				 
				