Re: H.B. 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT Oppose H.B. 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee, One study looked at suicide in Connecticut. Connecticut’s estimated reduction in firearm suicides was offset by increased non-firearm suicides. This bill will cause gun owners […]
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Sen Winfield, Rep Stafstrom, Members of the Judiciary Committee, It’s wrong for legislators to champion red flag laws as though they are a panacea to the growing crisis of gun violence in America. Address the real problem fund the Firearm Trafficking Task Force. Oppose HB 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT.
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Oppose: HOUSE BILL 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee The current risk warrant laws have met the needs of Connecticut residents, I’m opposed to HOUSE BILL 5448. If passed gun owners will now have to choose between their civil liberties or mental health. Gun owners
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Re: H.B. 5448 An Act Concerning a Risk Protection Order or Warrant Esteemed Judiciary Committee Members; I’m opposed to H.B. 5448 An Act Concerning a Risk Protection Order or Warrant because a study of the Indiana law allowing police to seize firearms from people, they considered dangerous, found outcomes closely correlated to defendants’ presence at
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Joint Committee on Judiciary Hartford, CT 06106 OPPOSITION to HB 6355 AN ACT CONCERNING RISK PROTECTION ORDERS OR WARRANTS SUPPORT for HB 6491 AN ACT CONCERNING NONLETHAL ELECTRONIC DEFENSE WEAPONS To: Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee, HB 6355 AN ACT CONCERNING RISK PROTECTION ORDERS OR WARRANTS is a phony solution created by the same
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Dear Senator Winfield, Representative Stafstrom, Distinguished Members of the Judiciary Committee, I strongly urge you to oppose Committee Bill. 6355. Currently, the risk warrant is available to anyone at any time with police arriving immediately. It makes no sense for someone to wait till the courthouse opens to file for an “extreme risk” warrant, if someone is so
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OPPOSE- Raised HB-5448 An Act Concerning a Risk Protection Order or Warrant Esteemed Judiciary Committee Members, I’m opposed to any procedure that allows a judge to hear only one side of a case, this will produce a high error rate. Civil liberties will be striped based on one sided judgment. This wrong. Oppose Raised HB-5448.
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Re: H.B. 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT. Sen Winfield, Rep Stafstrom, Members of the Committee, I’m writing today because I’m strongly opposed to H.B. 5448 AN ACT CONCERNING A RISK PROTECTION ORDER OR WARRANT. The bill would demand that anyone who has had a risk warrant filed against them prove
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Oppose: H.B. # 5448 An Act Concerning a Risk Protection Order or Warrant Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee, We are talking about taking away people’s due process. Basically, you’re guilty until proven innocent. Petitions should be filed after an investigation by two law enforcement officers. I’m opposed to H.B. # 5448. Please do not
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Members of the Joint Judiciary Committee If we are looking to make a change to the law, it should be that anyone who uses it as a “revenge tool” gets charged. The situation becomes even more precarious when loved ones can petition for the removal of firearms. Spurned former partners or family members seeking revenge
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