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Committee hears bill limiting courts’ ability to bar firearm possession during misdemeanor probation
Summary
House Bill 1301 would restrict courts from imposing a condition that a probationer not possess a firearm for most misdemeanors and all infractions, while preserving existing presumptions for certain assault and domestic‑violence related offenses. Law enforcement and state's attorneys raised safety and sentencing concerns and asked for clarifying,
Representative Ben Koppelman, sponsor of House Bill 1301, told the committee he intended the measure to prevent courts from using probation conditions to strip firearm possession rights for many nonviolent misdemeanors and all infractions while retaining the existing presumptions for assault, domestic violence and similar violent offenses.
Koppelman described the bill as narrowly scoped: the current statute already identifies violent misdemeanors and certain offenses (assault, domestic violence, menacing, harassment, stalking) where…
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