May 1st, 2009
Say Unlce:
A bill in TN to require someone subject to an order of protection for domestic violence relinquish their firearms has advanced in the senate. That’s right. No conviction, no jury of peers, just an order of protection based on one person’s word over another.
Uncle wrote previously about the automatic revocation of concealed carry permits in Tennessee when a protection order is filed against someone. This takes it several steps further by requiring that you “turn over” your firearms to someone. But just someone, apparently. Anyone who is legally allowed to posses them. No system. Just a requirement to turn them over “to a family member, a friend or anybody who can legally possess a weapon.”
What a joke. And it’s sponsored by a Republican.
I discussed the CCW revocation here, asking
Are they saying that someone who is going to break a protection order to commit murder will change their mind because they cannot legally carry a concealed weapon?
I also mentioned that in Michigan, there are optional restrictions on firearms possession when a personal protection order is issued and noted that the sister of a good friend of mine had recently been killed by an ex-boyfriend with a PPO issued against him.
Pieces of paper only work against the ones you don’t need to worry about.
Tags: TN
May 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
[...] gunpundit: Are they saying that someone who is going to break a protection order to commit murder will change [...]
May 3rd, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Oh dear. Crazy, just crazy.
Let’s say my wife gets a protection order against me and, as a result of our quarrel I decide to kill her… Are these clowns aware of the simple fact that I wouldn’t need a gun for that? Most of such crimes are committed without guns anyway. All I need is a knife, an axe, a hammer, anything.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:07 am
Nonsense Tennessee Law…
A bill in TN to require someone subject to an order of protection for domestic violence relinquish their firearms has advanced in the senate. That’s right. No conviction, no jury of peers, just an order of protection based on one person’s…
May 4th, 2009 at 6:09 am
It called covering their Behinds….instead of trying to solve the violence in an in depth and effective way, they pass a nonsense bill, and their covered.
May 4th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
As is often the case with topics like this, this is already life in MA.
Note that the law only applies to mere citizens and not to agents of the state. Cops who’ve had domestics can get exemptions so they can still carry for their work.
Neat, huh?
May 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Takekaze: If you were going to commit murder … then exactly how would making it a crime to keep a firearm prevent you from just keeping the firearm and committing murder with it?
Are they going to put you on double-secret probation or something in addition to prison if you murder someone with ( gasp ) and illegal firearm, as opposed to just murdering someone with a legal weapon?
Maybe a lesser sentence for just throwing her out a window?