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On a recent Thursday in Hillsborough County, Judge Denise Pomponio temporarily stripped gun privileges from more than a dozen people.
Among them, a husband and father who didn’t show up to court but whose wife and son did and described the frightening moments before police arrived.
“I turned around, and the gun was pointing straight at us,” the wife told the court.
“I saw him flip the safety off and aim it right at me. If my mom wasn’t standing there, I think he would have shot me,” the son explained.
There was the story of a thirty-year-old who called 911 upset police hadn’t responded to his earlier call that his fiancé stole his meds.
“I’ll tell you what, I’ll grab the gun I got and go to the mall,” he told a 911 operator.