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“Smith was arrested in 2018, accused of shooting at a car driven by a friend with whom he was having an argument over a borrowed cellphone,” the outlet reports, noting that the victim was unhurt. In response, law enforcement officers issued a “risk protection order” requiring Smith to give up his weapons.

When the orders arrived at his home, Smith “did not fully understand how far his rights extended, or more significantly, how far they did not,” the Sun Sentinel reports. His defense lawyer, Jim Lewis, insists that Smith simply did not understand that the new law gave authorities the power to seize his weapons.

So it took a year for them to issue the “risk protection order” or they waited a year to enforce it. Something doesn’t smell right or the story is incomplete.

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Banglist (((Ping))))

[blueplum]

if he was arrested in 2018, he likely got a temporary risk protection order following his arrest, when he would have had to surrender his weapons. (maybe a restraining order at the same time?) According to the article below, the temporary order issued starts a 14-day clock, at the end of which is a risk-protection hearing, and if no successful challenge (presumably in the year following the hearing) is mounted, the order becomes permanent after one year.

Sounds like the year was up? And if the guy claims ignorance, he’s probably lying like a rug since he had to have seen a judge and received some sort of paperwork.

No sympathy here for an idiot who would shoot at a vehicle, without caring a wit about what or who else was in his line of fire or ricochet.

https://parrislaw.org/risk-protection-order/

[fruser1]

“incomplete”

He was probably shooting in self defense. Car may have been heading towards him.