restraining order ?

[daves100]

buddy is going thru a divorce and wife was granted a restraining order. Can i take him to a gun range with my Guns?

[F-2_Challenger]

Depends on the RO. Was he allowed to keep one for work or protection. If not that should answer your question.

[Matt C]

Bad idea.

[daves100]

Question

He does not own any firearms, Unsure what the R.O says. will have to look at it.

[homerm14]

The long and short answer is no. Why risk it? There are lots of laws ont the books that are not enforced, but Judges hate it when someone violates their orders. He should have a copy of his order (has to be served for the order to be enforced) and I have never seen one that allows the restrained to have a firearm. Tell him to go to court and protest the order, but until then no guns.

[anthonyca]

http://www.gunlawnews.org/lautenberg.html

Don't chance it. This is pure speculation on my part but has been known to happen to others.

Her lawyer tells her to get a RO because there is no proof needed just her asking for one. He tells her that it will look better for her argument for custody. He tells her that if he is arrested for violating that RO he has NO chance of unsupervised visitation and she will get much more out of him for child support and they can even show he was controlling and that is why she didn't work and her not working was not because she was lazy, then he has to pay her attorney fees.

So in this hypothetical in this case but true in other scenarios she is trailing him trying to destroy his life. She sees you take him into a gun range and calls the cops and says "my estranged husband just threatened me and he has a gun"!!!

There he goes. Possible 10 years in fed prison but more likely he will just be put away for a few months but will be a felon. Oh and NO unsupervised visitation, crazy money to lawyers and her and never able to get a job with out having this pop up.

I have seen ex wifes do some CRAZY things. We have had them show up at work harassing their ex husbands or bfs for ignoring them, fallow them around in their work trucks and keep calling that 1-800 how am I driving # ect.

Hopefully it is not like this for him but DON'T chance it.

[PorkLover]

depends.....what was the restraining order for?.....a domestic violence offense......if your buddy has the order, read it over first........also is the order a criminal or civil restraining order......