Manhattan DA Refuses to Release Weinstein Restraining Order

By David Codrea

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- “A judge last month ordered [Harvey] Weinstein to submit to round-the-clock GPS monitoring and to restrict his travel to New York and Connecticut,” The Los Angeles Times reported in early June. “Weinstein also surrendered his passport, and one of the alleged victims has obtained a restraining order against him.”

“Restraining order”? Don’t those generally include firearm prohibitions? Since Weinstein has long made clear his contempt for the right of the people to keep and bear arms, including notoriously boasting he would make NRA members “wish they weren’t alive,” his being ordered a “prohibited person” before being convicted of any crime would seem fittingly ironic. Unfortunately, as draconian as its state laws are, the authority of a court to order to remove firearms on a non-domestic violence charge against someone who has maintained residences in West Village, the Hamptons, Westport, CT, and Hollywood, CA, is unclear.

Intuitively, you’d think someone indicted by a grand jury on criminal counts including …Read the Rest

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