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Just when you thought you were safe from anything Drew Peterson-related, Bolingbrook's most notorious ex-husband is back in the news. Last week, a grand jury indicted Peterson on two counts of unlawful use of a weapon stemming from a supposedly illegal transfer of his shortened assault rifle to his son. On Monday, Will County Judge Richard Schoenstedt heard arguments over dismissing all felony gun charges. Peterson's attorneys insist that he carried the weapon while working as a police officer and is thereby protected by the Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, which allows "law-enforcement officers and retired law-enforcement officers in good standing to carry a concealed firearm in any jurisdiction in the U.S., regardless of most state or local laws." Assistant State's Atty. John Connor disagreed, pointing out that Peterson had been arrested for carrying an illegal weapon, not a concealed weapon. Peterson attorney Joel Brodsky also claimed the Bolingbrook Police Department had given Peterson permission to carry the rifle, though a spokesman for the BPD denied such a claim. more ›