Before I begin; I live a state over and am not in any way shape or form involved with what's going on. My grandmother and I are very close and usually she uses good judgement when dealing with her kids and their petty lives and the bullshit surrounding them. I'm concerned for the safety of other people in this scenario who have done nothing wrong and who I really love.

Okay, so my grandmother has three adopted daughters in addition to her two sons (one being my dad). The three adopted daughters are awful drama filled human beings that all made really poor life decisions. The sons got out and made families elsewhere to get away from it. We'd only visit to see my grandmother, who is kind hearted and wonderful. My grandfather is a little tough but he's just as great and we love them to death.

The oldest of the daughters, we'll call her Cara, had three kids with a guy named Steve. The other two had two kids (one each) and both of those kids live with my grandmother in her house. Cara also lives in grandmother's house with her three kids. Cara and Steve used to live down the street in a trailer my grandmother owned but things went a little south after the third kiddo was born and Cara had to leave.

So pretty much Steve was beating Cara because she was sleeping around behind his back. He'd often do it in front of the kids. They both abuse drugs and Steve is a felon. Neither have a job. Steve apparently also has several side girlfriends but doesn't like the thought of Cara being with someone else. After a while grandma took those kids in to get them away from the mess and soon Cara divorced Steve and moved in as well.

They apparently have a restraining order on Steve and he's allowed an hour of monitored visitation with his kids a week or something. He's trying to use Cara's history abusing drugs to get the upper hand and get his kids back. He stalks the house my grandmother lives in and often just stands across the street and stares into it until they call the police and then bails.

He walks by the windows and crouches under and plays music on his phone (??? idk) and even brings the side girlfriends over to help stalk/intimidate both Cara and my grandmother.

Grandmother claims that police won't arrest him because he's an "informer" for the department. Don't know how true this one is.

Anyways. The small kids are innocent. There are five in there. And my severely mentally disabled grandfather with Alzheimer. I love my grandmother, but she bought a few bear traps to rig up in the yard in hidden places around the house to sabotage Steve and has a hunting rife propped up in the window so she can shoot on sight or whatever.

So here's the thing. I don't want one of the small kiddos that I actually enjoy and really adore running around one day playing and getting caught in a fucking bear trap. Nor do I want either of my grandparents to forget the bear traps are there and stumble into one. Or like the post man or a neighbor kid or whatever. Also nobody in that house has a license or registration situation going on to own a gun. And I'm 99% sure in Kansas you can't shoot people for standing across the street and looking into your house.

So how legal/illegal is what they are doing? What will the consequences be? And what can they do instead to deter Steve from being a psychopath?

Thank you. Kansas by the way, in case I didn't already put that in the text/title.