Manchester Gun Crime Defense Lawyers

Vigorously protecting the futures of clients fighting firearms charges and enhancements

Gun-related charges can be involved in a broad range of crimes that run from minor to life-altering sentences. Maybe you’re a novice gun enthusiast who believed you purchased a legal firearm. Maybe you used a stolen gun to commit a robbery that ended in murder. Guns can be used in sexual assault, murder, robbery, and other serious crimes, thereby enhancing the severity of the charge.

Having the advice and guidance of an accomplished criminal defense attorney is the most critical first step when you have been arrested on gun-related charges, or have just been accused of a crime with a firearms enhancement. The Manchester defense lawyers of Barry, Taylor & Levesque, LLC know what’s on the line when you’re facing these kinds of charges. Contact us for the help you need, when you need it – today.

Gun related criminal charges in Connecticut

In Connecticut, the possession and use of firearms is strictly regulated, with punishments for violation of these laws being just as harsh. Even someone who legally owns a gun then privately sells it without understanding state law pertaining to background checks, may not realize that he or she could be buying a personal injury lawsuit should the new gun owner cause damage, injury or death with that gun.

Some of the gun crimes commonly charged in Manchester are:

• Possession of a sawed-off shotgun or silencer. Owning, controlling or possessing any sawed-off shotgun with a barrel of less than eighteen inches or an overall length of less than twenty-six inches, or owning, controlling or possessing any silencer intending to muffle the sound of a firearm during discharge.
• Stealing a firearm. Intent to deprive someone of their firearm by wrongfully taking, obtaining or withholding the firearm.
• Manslaughter with a firearm. Committing manslaughter by using, or being armed with and threatening the use of, or displaying or representing by words or conduct, that s/he possesses a pistol, revolver, shotgun, machine gun, rifle or other firearm.
• Assault with a firearm. Committing assault while using, or being armed with and threatening the use of, or displaying or representing by words or conduct, that s/he possesses a pistol, revolver, shotgun, machine gun, rifle or other firearm.
• Sexual assault with a firearm. Committing sexual assault while using, or being armed with and threatening the use of, or displaying or representing by words or conduct, that s/he possesses a pistol, revolver, shotgun, machine gun, rifle or other firearm.
• Kidnapping with a firearm. Committing kidnapping while using, or being armed with and threatening the use of, or displaying or representing by words or conduct, that s/he possesses a pistol, revolver, shotgun, machine gun, rifle or other firearm.
• Robbery with a firearm. in the course of the commission of the crime of robbery as defined in section 53a-133 or of immediate flight therefrom, he or another participant in the crime displays or threatens the use of what he represents by his words or conduct to be a pistol, revolver, rifle, shotgun, machine gun or other firearm.

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution guarantees the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms. There are times when exercising this freedom equated to a crime for which you need to assert the protection of a criminal defense attorney who is highly knowledgeable about gun laws. Your constitutional rights and freedom are on the line. You cannot afford to put your trust in just anyone – trust the legal team with a former prosecutor.