There’s (was?) a judge in Knoxville that handed out TRO’s like party favors with any divorce, no matter how amicable.

If someone got declined on a TICs check and looked confused as to why, you could ask “Have you gotten divorced recently?” and amazingly often they’d say “Yes! How did you know?”

They are often pro forma requests, and granted just as automatically, in any legal dispute, especially divorces, even though there may be no factual basis for their issuance. Yet, the gun rights are lost without any opportunity for the target of such an order to respond or to demand any proof that he/she might accurately be deemed even a potential threat, let alone an actual threat.