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Looks like an ideal opening for a lot of legal wrangling over semantics:

Revised 4473 Section 21(d) asks "Have you ever been convicted in a court, including a military court, of a felony, or any other crime for which the judge could have imprisoned you for more than one year, even if you received a shorter sentence including probation?" (emphasis mine)

I don't think Hunter could truthfully answer "NO" to that question. So absent some other legalese remedy, he still appears to have a 4473 problem. In addition, there's the California IRS case hanging (no pun intended). Nowhere is "pardon" mentioned, just "shorter sentence" and "probation".
My understanding is that once you’ve been pardoned, it’s treated as if the conviction never happened, so he could truthfully answer the question with a no. The process to officially clear your record is all administrative, not judicial.
 
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My understanding is that once you’ve been pardoned, it’s treated as if the conviction never happened, so he could truthfully answer the question with a no. The process to officially clear your record is all administrative, not judicial.
This.

It’s not like everyone in America doesn’t know that Hunter plead guilty to felonies.

It’s the administrative system that requires proactive records corrections demands by the pardoned person. They don’t automatically purge court records due to a pardon.

In some aspects the records will always remain active. It’s just that 99.999% of pardoned people would never request access to programs or services that would still show the convictions as positive CHRC returns.

Another aspect of this case is that the sentences haven’t been entered into the system yet for Hunter. Pardoning him now may prevent the convictions from even being entered into the systems.
 

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