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Conn. Crim. Jury Instr. 2.9-3

Inoperability of Firearm

activein force · 2012-05-10 – presentas-observed

The defendant has raised the affirmative defense that the <insert type of firearm> was not a

weapon from which a shot could be discharged. In other words, the <insert type of firearm>

was inoperable.1

<See Affirmative Defense, Instruction 2.9-1.>

1 On the use of the term “inoperable,” see State v. Darryl W., 303 Conn. 353, 357 n.5.

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2026-08-23
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2026-08-23
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