The warrant gave prosecutors the right to seize records containing evidence in violation of three laws, with code numbers 793, 2071 and 1519.
While the list of items agents took from Mar-a-Lago notes that many of the do ents were classified, those three laws deal with mishandling of federal government records regardless of whether or not they are classified.
The law with number 793 prevents unauthorized possession of national defense information, without mentioning whether the records are classified or not. It is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
That law was initially passed under the 1917 Espionage Act, which predates the statutory classification system.
The other laws, 2071 and 1519, make it illegal to conceal or destroy official U.S. do ents. They are punishable by up to three and 20 years in prison, respectively. Neither law requires the information in question to be classified....
Federal law makes it illegal to intentionally take classified do ents to an unauthorized location, but that law was not among the three cited in the search warrant. That means whether or not the do ents were classified has no bearing on those charges.
Trump in 2018 signed a change in the law which increased the maximum prison term for individuals convicted of mishandling classified information from one to five years.