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Expungement vs. Record Sealing
The key difference between expunging a person's criminal record and sealing it is that a sealed record still "exists" in both a legal and physical sense, while expungement results in the deletion of any record that an arrest or criminal charge ever occurred. It is typically standard procedure to seal records of juvenile criminal proceedings once the person turns 18, along with other criminal cases involving a juvenile, but those records are still accessible with a court order.https://www.justia.com/criminal/exp...en expunging,or criminal charge ever occurred.
I am assuming these are juvenile convictions which would have been automatically "sealed" which would have satisfied the prior requirements to purchase firearms or receive CHL and with the new enhanced background checks one would have to go the extra mile to get them actually expunged to be able to continue to purchase firearms and receive CHL.