Did I **** up my career permanently?

Ok, got an update gents. Just going into my second week with my new company. Same one just down the road that said "Wait a few months, call us back."
Now I'm hauling auto freight in a day cab GUARANTEED home every day, medical is less than 1/2 the cost of the previous goat humpers.... I mean previous company, pay looks like its gonna be about as good and the office people are NICE.
Now the rest of the story. I filed for unemployment, got denied. Asked for reconsideration, denied again. Went for an appeal this past Tuesday. Telephone conference of me, my attorney, company attorney, ####### boss, and judge. IMHO, my former boss came across as the bumbling clueless idiot he's thought to be. Couldn't answer quite a few questions, kept telling the judge he had to defer to HR. Lol!
What "disturbed" them was two boxes of ammo I bought at a store I delivered to and a pair of fixed blade knives; one a AF issue survival knife with a 5" blade, the other a pos Rambo style I bought somewhere for giggles and stashed in the bag for lack of anywhere else to put it.
Anyway, I made the case that these (especially the AF knife) were carried as rescue tools in case I ever needed to cut myself out or break a window to get out. Company policy reads quote "no carrying of weapons or knives prohibited by federal, state, or local law". Well, these knives weren't illegal under any of those, so maybe they need to rewrite their policy? Hmmmmm?
My attorney hammered them on that point and also the fact that the policy they quoted to fire me was dated 2010 BUUUT the handbook I signed for was back in 2005 and my boss couldn't confirm on the spot that it said the same thing back then.
Bottom line, I've talked to a few people with more knowledge on this than me and none of them think they made a very good case.(Yeah, I know it's what the judge thinks that counts). If I get my back unemployment great, if not at least I took my best shot and got a laugh out of watching the boss squirm.