Can Police Take My Guns Away?
A Look at Indiana’s Jake Laird Law – Returning of Firearms in a Criminal Case Despite an individual’s constitutionally protected right to keep and bear arms, if certain circumstances exist, the police are authorized to take one’s firearm to hold and even potentially destroy. The law that allows the retention of firearms is Indiana Code 35-47-14, or otherwise known as the “Jake Laird” law. This law was enacted in 2005, subsequent to the murder of…