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Bill requiring restraining order subjects to surrender guns passes state Legislature
Due process? Who cares!Hartford, Conn. (WTNH)- The state senate has passed a bill that prevents people with temporary restraining orders against them from having firearms.
The legislation passed by a 23 to 13 margin. Governor Malloy has promised to sign it into law. Under the legislation, a person with a restraining order would have to hand over any firearms to police or a firearms dealer within 24 hours of being served with the order.
Bill requiring restraining order subjects to surrender guns passes state Legislature
That's a lot of people to not care about due process.The state Senate voted in favor of the bill on Monday 23-13.
The bill, which passed the House of Representatives last Wednesday with a vote of 104-42, prevents people served with temporary restraining orders from keeping their guns. Alleged abusers now have 24 hours to sell their weapons to a licensed dealer or turn them over to police.
CCDL members have pointed out since the governor introduced this bill, it is nothing but a back door method to force the surrender of firearms with no opportunity for a respondent of such an order to be heard prior to any surrender of legal property. The bill would eliminate the standard protection of ‘Due Process’ as affirmed under the 5th and 14th Amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
We feel it is important for the public to understand that individuals who may be served with an order of this type do not even have to be charged with any crime, let alone convicted of wrong-doing.