OK, so we are working on the assumption that he will never get his LTC or guns back, ever....
I didn't know that there was already an ending to this story, some of you guys seem to already know that his LTC and guns are gone forever.
Im pretty sure the guy will get back his LTC and guns if cleared of any wrong doing. And as I stated above, I don't agree with it.
In MA courts the entire system takes a very dim view of road rage and all involved are treated like shit by default- particularly if someone is a peon and not a LEO or someone with a lot of political connections/clout.
Also a shitty CLEO can easily argue "Well, acquitted or not he was still involved in a road rage incident, escalated, and then introduced a firearm into it, which means that he's fundamentally unsuitable". There's a pejorative in legal circles WRT road rage where people will subonciously blame both parties involved unless strong evidence shows that one party attempted to deescalate etc.
There's a memetic/mind virus problem with road rage- in the respect that these incidents are stereotyped; because 99 out of 100 times when you see a road rage incident, there are two dickheads going at it in public and nobody deescalates. So it is trivial for people to adopt the default viewpoint that road rage doesn't really have victims; but instead has mutual combatants.
-Mike