-Caveat Lector-
March 28, 2001
Family's Guns Seized After Child Makes Threat
Pro-gun advocates saracastically refer to the state's controversial
new gun seizure statute as the turn in your neighbor law. On the
books for a couple of years, it allows police (with a judge's ok), to go
to a person's home and confiscate all the guns, if the person poses an
imminent risk of injury to himself or others.
Now, with school violence an all too common occurance, that law in
Milford has been applied to entire families.
It was the words last week of a 12-year old boy -- a student at
Harborside Middle School -- that has now ignited a new skirmish in
Connecticut's gun control battle.
Milford Police not only charged the boy with breach of peace, but also
for the first time used Connecticut's gun seizure law to remove 30
rifles and pistols from the boy's home. All properly secured, owned
by the boy's father -- a hunter and collector.
Pro-gun advocates say this is what they'd been afraid of since the
seizure law was passed. They point out that the law's language talks
about the person who possesses the guns. And the advocates
question why
police couldn't have acted short of seizure.
But even a Republican state lawmaker from Milford, who orginally
voted
against the seizure law, now wants it expanded to include not only the
guns a person possesses, but also those they have immediate access
too.
There was also a second case in Milford last week where another
threat
by another middle school student led to his family's guns also being
seized.
Milford Police say in both cases the guns won't be returned until the
criminal cases are disposed of. However the gun seizure law
requires a hearing within 14-days so a judge can determine if the
weapons should be returned.
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We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary
Americans ... -Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993, page 2A)
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