Posted April 7, 2016 9:35 am by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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A proposed bill from Illinois Representative Kathleen Willis (D-Addison) would allow anyone to file a petition to take away someone’s gun rights if they felt the gun owner posed a threat to themselves or others.

The Lethal Violence Order of Protection Act says:

Provides that a petitioner may request an emergency lethal violence order of protection by filing an affidavit or verified pleading alleging that the respondent poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm. Provides that the petition shall also describe the type, and location of any firearm or firearms presently believed by the petitioner to be possessed or controlled by the respondent. Provides that the petitioner may be a family member of the respondent or a law enforcement officer, who files a petition alleging that the respondent poses a danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself, or another by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm. Establishes factors that the court must consider before issuing a lethal violence order of protection. Provides for the issuance …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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