When gun laws are passed they are often passed without any enforcement mechanism (because the NRA is involved, particularly in FL). Take this case in Lakeland of a woman arrested because she took her estranged husband’s guns to the police while he was incarcerated, ostensibly to protect herself and her kids when he got out.
He was under a court order to surrender his guns:
“When a person is ordered to give up their guns as part of an injunction or pre-trail release agreement, there is no automatic enforcement method to take those guns away, Polk County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Brian Bruchey said.
The Sheriff’s Office is not involved in this case, though it had taken an “information report” from Courtney Irby in December regarding her husband, Bruchey said.
“We really don’t have authority to take firearms from people unless they are surrendered or there is a court order,” Bruchey said.”
If a person, upon receiving an injunction or a pre-trial release agreement, say they have no firearms to hand over, “that’s pretty much it,” Bruchey said. “We can’t do anything, unless they willfully do it — release them to us.”
This is precisely why FLORIDA (and many states had to pass RPO laws. This woman should’ve sought an RPO or, as someone says in the article, she should’ve dumped the guns in the ocean. I mean, what kind of citizen goes to the police for help?
