[Blue Jays]

You are precisely correct, DBrow.
There is nothing to stop a dishonest person from saying to police, "...He/she pointed a gun at me. It was silver, that's all I know..."

Bingo, that is all that is needed to then deprive someone of their rights without even examining to see if the OTHER partner is proactively disarming his/her partner to facilitate nefarious plans of their own.

[DBrow]

Deeper than that- He has a lot of guns and I’m afraid he’ll HURT me! is all it takes.

Lawyer: You said he owns a gun?

Wife: Yes, several, some worth over a thousand dollars.

Lawyer: OK we’ll file a restraining order, it will put pressure on him that may make him do something stupid, to our advantage.

[loungitude]

That,s how they like it.