The system failed Dorene Seidl.

According to this report, not only did a judge deny Seidl's plea for a domestic violence restraining order against her husband - who reportedly had a history of domestic violence and suicidal threats - but authorities also allowed him to keep his firearms.

Yet a week after Seidl told a judge she was "afraid of him and what he could do," her husband allegedly shot her to death.

He reportedly also had a concealed carry permit, which in the eyes of some automatically makes him a "law-abiding gun owner."

He would be at least the seventh concealed carry permit-holder to be charged with murder since July 5.

In the Louisville Courier-Journal:

Earlier this month, Dorene Seidl claimed in a domestic violence petition that her husband, William Seidl, threatened to commit suicide on Aug. 5 and asked her, “Do you want to go with me?� before pulling out a gun.

In her petition, filed in Jefferson Family Court, Dorene Seidl said she had previously removed the bullets from her husband’s gun and, after he tried to get the bullets back, she walked to her daughter’s home and had her call the police.

“In the past, he has put a gun to my head and I knew what he was building his way up to,� Dorene Seidl said in her petition, filed Aug. 7.

But she said police told her William Seidl had a permit for the gun, so there was nothing she could do.

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In an interview today, [Judge Joseph] O’Reilly said that his prayers are with the Seidl family. O’Reilly said that after listening to an hour of testimony last week, hearing from both of the Seidls and a witness, he could not find by a “preponderance of the evidence,� as required by state law, that domestic violence had occurred.

“I had no legal basis to issue a domestic violence order and I did not,� he said.

Police say that after Dorene Seidl was shot William Seidl, 68, barricaded himself in the home, creating a nearly four-hour standoff with police Monday night.

Dorene Seidl was pronounced dead at the scene about 8 p.m., once the standoff ended, Robinson said. Her husband was charged with one count of murder.

A police citation says that when authorities arrived at Seidl’s residence, he told them that he shot his wife. He also said that they had been having problems and that she came to the house to get personal items when the shooting occurred.

Before the shooting Monday, there had been four previous police runs to the home, police said.

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Is this the type of person the gun lobby believes we can trust simply because he has a permit to carry a concealed weapon?

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:

Shelby County Sheriff's deputies have arrested a man allegedly impersonating a law enforcement officer just moments after he pulled over a female motorist.

Authorities suspect other drivers, especially women, might have been stopped by the same man.

Deputies received a call of a man stopping vehicles around 6 p.m. on Saturday in North Shelby County using an emergency light.

When deputies arrived on the scene, they saw a white Chrysler 300, with a flashing light on the windshield, parked behind a Dodge Neon on Old Raleigh-Millington Road. Standing next to the driver's door of the Neon was a man dressed in plain clothes with a gold badge hanging from his neck and a pistol strapped to his side.

During questioning, the suspect said that he had stopped the woman to get her phone number. He also indicated that he was a bounty hunter. Although the suspect had a valid permit to carry a gun, his bounty hunter credentials and his Tennessee Armed Security Guard License were expired.

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Oh, great. A wannabe "Dog the Bounty Hunter" using his concealed carry permit and a fake badge to get women's phone numbers.

Maybe the NRA should recruit him as their "law-abiding gun owner" of the week.

Sound familiar? It should.

From the Tallahassee Democrat:

William Gilliard, 23, was cleaning his .45-caliber Glock early this morning when it discharged and shot him in the leg, according to David McCranie, spokesman for the Tallahassee Police Department.

The incident happened around 1:45 a.m., and TPD and EMS responded. Gilliard was transported to a local hospital and is expected to recover, according to McCranie.

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Remember now: guns don't shoot people in the leg, "law-abiding gun owners" do.

An update from a post in June.

Titans wide receiver Brandon Jones, a concealed carry permit-holder, has pleaded guilty to taking his loaded .32-caliber handgun into the Nashville International Airport.

From WKRN ABC-2 (Nashville):

Tennessee Titans' wide receiver Brandon Jones will be on probation for the next six months for bringing a loaded gun to Nashville International Airport.

Security found the loaded .32 caliber handgun in one of Jones' bags in June.

He was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, a misdemeanor.

Jones said that it was an oversight and he forgot the weapon was in his bag.

Monday morning, he accepted a conditional guilty plea.

Under the deal he will have to pay a $500 fine plus court costs and he will be under supervised probation.

He will also have to forfeit the weapon.

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It is hard to know what was going on in this man's life before he allegedly fired his handgun multiple times at his job site.

Unfortunately, his status as a "law-abiding gun owner" didn't keep him from reportedly drinking and pointing his gun at a co-worker.

Luckily no one was injured.

In the Niagara Gazette:

... Detectives said William P. Rosati, 48, 7628 Sunnyside Drive, will face charges of first-degree reckless endangerment and second-degree menacing when he is arraigned in Falls City Court later this morning.

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The detective chief said investigators are not sure why Rosati, who has a valid pistol permit, would have opened fire with innocent by-standers all around.

“It appears (Rosati) had been drinking,� Palmer said. “An open bottle of whiskey was found in his office by another employee.�

Police were first alerted to the shooting when the company owner called them Monday morning. The owner was not at the workplace on Friday.

“He came back from a weekend away and found the place shot up and called us,� Palmer said. “We recovered multiple shell casings from a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun.�

Palmer said Rosati was not at work Monday, but voluntarily turned himself in at police headquarters. The detective chief said Rosati also surrendered the gun used in the shooting and three other handguns.

He said he expects Rosati’s pistol permit will be suspended as early as today.

“It’s bizarre,� Palmer said of the incident. “It could have been potentially life-threatening for his co-workers. We’re lucky no one got struck (by a stray bullet).�

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