House Judiciary Committee hears testimony on firearm relinquishment, FFL liability and third‑party storage

The House Judiciary Committee met April 24 to consider draft changes to how firearms are handled when courts order relinquishment, hearing testimony from stakeholders, an Attorney General’s Office representative and FFL (federally licensed firearm) holders on liability, notice and storage procedures.

Chris Bradley, president of the regional sportsman clubs, told the committee he reviewed decades of cases and raised questions about how often relinquishment orders are issued and honored. “From 1994 to 2024, there were 457 homicides,” Bradley said, and he told the committee 204 of those were determined to be domestic‑violence related by the review commission he cited; he said most of those victims had no RFA in place. Bradley also cited courtroom figures he said showed roughly 3,200 petitions filed in a recent period with 1,069 immediately dismissed and more than 14,000 temporary orders issued, many of which did not become final. He urged the committee to build…