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Statewide system to ensure abusers surrender guns
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Statewide system to ensure abusers surrender guns
June 18, 2002
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Laws that allow police to confiscate guns in cases of domestic violence will be better enforced with the help of a new centralized computer system, the state's victim advocate said Monday.
In a 40-page investigative report, James F. Papillo also criticizes Shelton Police for not taking guns last year from a man accused of harassing, stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, who had a restraining order against him.
Anthony Iannone had permits for eight handguns and was eventually arrested in January after he left a loaded .38-caliber handgun on top of a fire call box near the woman's home.
Papillo said some police departments are not aware that subjects of restraining orders must surrender their handguns in two business days.
The apparent confusion has been evident in several high profile deaths, Papillo said, including the fatal shooting of pregnant mother Jenny McMechen on New Year's Eve in Plainfield. Police say she had several restraining orders against her estranged boyfriend, who is accused of killing her. The fetus did not survive.
"There's a great need for comprehensive reform to effectively remedy this problem," Papillo said. "These laws have not been adequately enforced."
State police have spent the past eight months working with local police chiefs on a new system that provides up-to-the-minute information about abusers and their access to handguns. They are adding different cities to the program over time.
Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman, said the "piecemeal" procedures used recently have not worked adequately. He said the Department of Public Safety has not received copies of restraining orders in a timely fashion.
Under the new program, the state will receive that information immediately and then have the ability to look up whether the subject of a restraining order has any gun permits. Local police would have access to that information and know whether guns should be removed.
If local departments do not have manpower to confiscate handguns, they could ask the state police for help taking the weapons, Vance said.
"This is a system of working together and backing each other up," Vance said. "Our goal is to ensure that court orders are abided by."
This year, the General Assembly passed legislation that creates a criminal penalty for those who violate restraining orders. The law also boosts the penalty for violating a protective order, which is issued by a judge following a crime.
Sen. Donald E. Williams, D-Killingly, who has worked with McMechen's family to pass the legislation, said the new computerized system is needed to enforce the tougher law.
"We don't need sweeping legislative changes to make this work," Williams said. "We need to enforce the laws already written."http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/statewire/hc-18010437.apds.m0719.bc-ct--gunsjun18.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
June 18, 2002
Associated Press
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Laws that allow police to confiscate guns in cases of domestic violence will be better enforced with the help of a new centralized computer system, the state's victim advocate said Monday.
In a 40-page investigative report, James F. Papillo also criticizes Shelton Police for not taking guns last year from a man accused of harassing, stalking and threatening his ex-girlfriend, who had a restraining order against him.
Anthony Iannone had permits for eight handguns and was eventually arrested in January after he left a loaded .38-caliber handgun on top of a fire call box near the woman's home.
Papillo said some police departments are not aware that subjects of restraining orders must surrender their handguns in two business days.
The apparent confusion has been evident in several high profile deaths, Papillo said, including the fatal shooting of pregnant mother Jenny McMechen on New Year's Eve in Plainfield. Police say she had several restraining orders against her estranged boyfriend, who is accused of killing her. The fetus did not survive.
"There's a great need for comprehensive reform to effectively remedy this problem," Papillo said. "These laws have not been adequately enforced."
State police have spent the past eight months working with local police chiefs on a new system that provides up-to-the-minute information about abusers and their access to handguns. They are adding different cities to the program over time.
Sgt. J. Paul Vance, a state police spokesman, said the "piecemeal" procedures used recently have not worked adequately. He said the Department of Public Safety has not received copies of restraining orders in a timely fashion.
Under the new program, the state will receive that information immediately and then have the ability to look up whether the subject of a restraining order has any gun permits. Local police would have access to that information and know whether guns should be removed.
If local departments do not have manpower to confiscate handguns, they could ask the state police for help taking the weapons, Vance said.
"This is a system of working together and backing each other up," Vance said. "Our goal is to ensure that court orders are abided by."
This year, the General Assembly passed legislation that creates a criminal penalty for those who violate restraining orders. The law also boosts the penalty for violating a protective order, which is issued by a judge following a crime.
Sen. Donald E. Williams, D-Killingly, who has worked with McMechen's family to pass the legislation, said the new computerized system is needed to enforce the tougher law.
"We don't need sweeping legislative changes to make this work," Williams said. "We need to enforce the laws already written."http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/statewire/hc-18010437.apds.m0719.bc-ct--gunsjun18.story?coll=hc-headlines-local-wire
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
Each and every firearm sold in the USA has been recorded and filed with the DOJ. You can track each and every transfer of a particular firearm in their records computer, or search for guns reqistered to a person.
This is why the private party transfers have been recently required to go through a FFL dealer so the DOJ can record the transfer into their records.
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When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
"If you ain't got pictures, I wasn't there."
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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