PA Bill Number: SB945
Title: Consolidating the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code; and making repeals.
Description: Consolidating the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code; and making repeals. ...
Last Action: Third consideration and final passage (199-0)
Last Action Date: Apr 17, 2024
Kelly: When domestic violence laws clash with gun rights :: 08/19/2014
When they sped to a quiet neighborhood of well-trimmed lawns on a recent Friday morning after a 911 call, Saddle Brook police figured they were about to confront an angry wife who had reportedly stabbed her husband.
What the police encountered now appears to have evolved into a constitutional debate over privacy and gun rights.
Sometimes small local disputes can touch on deep, divisive national debates. That seems to be the legacy of a husband-wife quarrel between Robert and Eileen Lintner at their home on Washington Street in Saddle Brook.
Police say that just after 9 a.m. on Aug. 8, they received a report that Eileen, 64, had stabbed her 65-year-old husband in the neck.
Robert Lintner's wound was not fatal — he was treated at Hackensack University Medical Center and released. Eileen Lintner was charged with second-degree aggravated assault and illegal possession of a weapon — a knife.
But as they typically do in domestic disputes, police separated the husband and wife for questioning. Then, in what police say is also standard procedure in such cases, they asked the Lintners, "Do you have any firearms in the house?"
Robert Lintner had almost 200 guns, most of them locked in steel vaults, police said. And he refused their request to enter the house and examine the weapons, for which the police say he had proper owner's permits.
So began an 11-hour dispute that ended with police obtaining a search warrant and then summoning the Fire Department with its Jaws of Life, often used to extract people trapped in crashed cars.
Police say Lintner told them he had two gun vaults. He actually had five — each standing about 3 feet wide and 6 feet tall and weighing 1,000 pounds, police said. Each vault was locked, and Lintner was the only one who knew the combinations.
http://www.northjersey.com/news/kelly-when-domestic-violence-laws-clash-with-gun-rights-1.1068734
