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Police say under department policy and state law, people who are issued restraining orders or protective orders cannot possess firearms.

Wow. Do you have to committ a crime to get a restraining order taken out against you? I thought those things were pretty liberally granted. If so, I'm amazed that is all it takes to remove your weapons. Hopefully this will get challenged and beaten.

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[taxed2death]

I'm a CT resident.....there was a law passed a few years back, basically it goes like this.....if you're my next door neighbor and I have a bone to pick with you....all I have to say is "I heard him screaming at his wife last night........he's been actin' wack lately"....etc to the boys in blue.......they come in a day or two later and can take your legally owned fire arms away from you. It happened to my brother.
Connecticut, the "constitution state" Indeed.

[AdamSelene235]

Wow. Do you have to committ a crime to get a restraining order taken out against you? I thought those things were pretty liberally granted. If so, I'm amazed that is all it takes to remove your weapons. Hopefully this will get challenged and beaten.

Yes, that was what the Emerson case was about, remember. You know the one that Ashcroft said that the Supreme Court need not hear.

[Joe Brower]

Do you have to committ a crime to get a restraining order taken out against you?

Not at all. Restraining orders are, in many states now, a de facto part of any divorce proceeding, and thanks to the Brady Act, confiscating all the firearms belonging to the divorcing parties is now an automatic part of that process. This is what the US vs. Emerson case (recently dismissed by a cowardly US Supreme Court at the behest of the Bush administration's DOJ) was all about.

[El Gato]

Wow. Do you have to committ a crime to get a restraining order taken out against you? I thought those things were pretty liberally granted. If so, I'm amazed that is all it takes to remove your weapons. Hopefully this will get challenged and beaten.

It's already been tried, in the circuit most likely to overturn it. No Joy, although the federal 5th ciruit court did say the 2nd amendment was an individual right, a domestic restraining order, even a boilerplate one issued as part of divorce proceedings, was enough "due process" to remove the right.