UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, — v. ROBERT LEE PFEIFER, ALSO KNOWN AS BARNEY PFEIFER, —

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Robert Lee Pfeifer conditionally pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm after being convicted of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(9). Pfeifer appeals his conviction on the following statutory and constitutional grounds: 1) he did not knowingly and intelligently waive the right to counsel in the predicate domestic violence conviction, as required by 18 U.S.C. § 921(a)(33)(B) in order to obtain a conviction under § 922(g)(9); 2) as applied to him, § 922(g)(9) - violates the Ex Post Facto Clause of the United States…