No. Politicians don't get elected or re-elected by being soft on criminals.
Law-and-order is the safer position.
That being said, Georgia has a process by which most deli a who have long since completed their sentences can petition the Board of Pardons and Paroles to get their gun rights back.
The Board of Pardons and Paroles has a process to restore gun rights to certain persons convicted of felonies (and even misdemeanors, in limited instances).
● You must have completed all sentence(s) at least five (5) years prior to applying.
● You must have lived a law-abiding life during the five (5) years prior to applying.
● You cannot have any pending charges.
● All fines and restitution must be paid in full.
The 14 page General Pardon application is
http://pap.georgia.gov/sites/pap.ge...ion/Pardon Application Revised July 2016 .pdf
Reading the application, one sees questions regarding drug use, drug convictions, firearm offenses, debts, civil case history, employment history, child support among others.
My impression is that compared to the Pardon Application of 2013, this 2016 version is about ten pages longer. Whereas the 2013 version seemed to be used to obtain information to verify qualification to some specific requirements, the 2016 version seems to ask a whole lot more general information that does not appear to verify qualification to some specific requirements but, instead, appears to obtain a more "holistic" view of the applicant so that even though the applicant meets all of the requirements of the 2013 application that same applicant might be denied restoration of rights (including restoration of firearm rights) not because the applicant failed any specific legal requirement(s) but because the applicant failed (on the balance) to "make the grade" in the eyes of the Pardon committee because of some answers to some questions that are quite tangential to actual legal requirements placed upon qualification for firearm ownership.
I am sympathetic to the evolution of the process for the restoration of firearm rights by the Pardon committee because of concern of issuance of a pardon with restoration of firearm rights eventually being implicated in a violent crime. As we now see with current news events, the wrath of public opinion freely exercised upon public officials in response to each new news story is excoriating.
And yet, there are freedoms which are Constitutionally guaranteed (and more or less protected). That's what the Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles are now facing with federal firearms restrictions imposed for state convictions of certain crimes for which federal law allow for the restoration of firearm rights IF state pardons are obtained for those state convictions. That Board is performing an unenviable balancing act of the protection of individual firearm rights balanced with the protection of citizens from any reasonable likelihood that those convicted of crimes of certain crimes will continue, or graduate unto, crimes involving firearms (i.e. recidivism).