Been a fan for 4 years , best podcast ever ! Never missed an episode <| sep |> You MAY be correct but it varies . In WI under 940 . 19 and is subsections nearly all battery items are felonies . Causing bodily injury is a Class A misdemeanor but substantial or great bodily harm are felonies different classes . Also , under some sections making a threat to commit bodily injury is considered battery and it can be argued that such a threat of violence is not actually violence . So , I ' ll agree that in common use battery is a crime of violence . However , you can have a battery conviction where no actual violence was committed . My main point stands though , to remove someone ' s rights it should require a felony conviction . Moreover , the author wrote a crap article and is tugging at heart strings by not providing full information .