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Legal Information: West Virginia
What is the definition of a felony?
Throughout these gun law pages, we will refer to gun laws that make it illegal for someone convicted of a felony to have a gun. A felony is a more serious crime than a misdemeanor. In West Virginia, any crime punishable by a state prison sentence is a felony, while any other crime is a misdemeanor.1 Usually, a person sentenced to a term of more than one year will go to state prison and someone who faces a sentence of one year or less will serve that sentence in a local jail.
1 W. Va. Code § 61-11-1
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