At 2:55 p.m. Nov. 6, a woman, 35, reported that while she was in her kitchen fixing her sink, her former boyfriend unexpectedly entered her house. The woman has a protection order against the man, 39.

The Connecticut Supreme Court has just redrawn the line that separates your right to own a gun from the court’s power to take it away when a protective order is in place. Instead of treating firearm ...