My opinion of the law is that an expungement wipes away any issues that your criminal record could have created; at least as far as gun permits are concerned.  However, I have a  prospective client that applied without an attorney and he thought he was OK with his expungement.  Well the problem is that the police still knew about the crime so they denied him anyway.  Well if I get hired on the case, I’d really like to see how that holds up in court.