Denial of Pistol Permit Based on Allegedly "Unsubstantiated" Past Allegations of Sexual Misconduct and Child Abuse

Denial of Pistol Permit Based on Allegedly "Unsubstantiated" Past Allegations of Sexual Misconduct and Child Abuse

An excerpt from McWilliams v. Costa, decided Wednesday by Judge Stefan Underhill (D. Conn.): This civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Connecticut law challenges Defendants' unconstitutional denial of Plaintiff Michael McWilliams' pistol permit application …. [As alleged in the Complaint,] McWilliams was a "secondary school teacher, a single homosexual male, and an adoptive parent." McWilliams "has no criminal record and has never been…