Frank ConfortiAs a gun owner and a retired Police Officer with 27 years on the job I do understand the Red Flag Law. Most people however don't understand it . In most states that use this type of law does so by having a person evaluated by a professional because of some threats a person had made . Once the professional has evaluated the person and deemed that person to be a threat because of his/her actions officers go in front of a court and ask a judge for an order to remove the persons guns based on the circumstances surrounding the event and professional evaluation . If the Judge feels / agrees with the evidence they issue an order to remove the guns from the person in question . The person in question can legally fight to have their guns returned through the court system . As a responsible gun owner I have no issues with this program because I don't want any unstable person to have a firearm where they might hurt some innocent person (s) . REMEMBER folks most of the shootings that have caused this type of enforcement is because someone with mental issues hasa gun and made threats . These people are ruining it for all of us that own.carry guns legally . However I do believe there is a safer way to do this once an court order has been issued. Officers could wait till the person leaves the house and or confront them outside where in most cases they aren't in possession of a firearm. Remember the officers are dealing with someone that has been already deemed mentally unstable, I believe this would be a safer way for all involved . I never want to lose my guns either folks, but a few bad apples are ruining it for all of us law abiding gun owners .
The Richmond gunrally is expected to draw a wide range of people, from staunch believers that the Second Amendment guarantees wide access to guns to religious leaders calling for peace. "This ...
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A pro-gunrally expected to draw thousands around Virginia's capitol building on Monday has authorities bracing for violence, but it also marks shifting battle lines in the U.S. gundebate.
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Two young boys from Fort Carson, Colorado, were arrested and charged with a felony for playing with toy guns outside. The incident happened last July, but the parents of one of the boys are speaking out now that their son's record is expunged. Ten-year-old Gavin Carpenter and his friend were playing a real-life version of the video game Fortnite using toy guns. While they were playing, they pointed the guns at cars as they passed by, pretending to shoot them. "The toy bow was an orange Nerf bow. It didn't work. Nothing could shoot out of it. Nothing would come out of it. The weapon, well toy I had, had an orange tip. It was also broken and couldn't shoot anything out of it," Gavin told KXRM. After pretending to shoot around ten cars, one of the motorists slammed on his brakes and started chasing after Gavin and his friend. "He slammed his brakes and started reversing as fast as he could," Gavin said. "He came up and started getting very heated and was very mad. I was at the time, very scared." The two boys ran to his friend's grandparents' house, where the motorist parked and called the police. Video recorded by the family's Ring doorbell camera showed the irate man screaming at somebody near the front door. When the police arrived, they took Gavin and his friend away in handcuffs and charged them with Felony Menacing, a Class 5 felony. Gavin tried to explain they were just playing and did not mean to threaten or scare anybody. His family tried to get the charges dropped, but the district attorney refused. "It was just a hard no, that the District Attorney wasn't going to throw this out," Gavin's father Chris said. "That is when we moved into the diversion program." Gavin had his record expunged after completing the program, which included community service. "So if you run his name, nothing will show up, but he did have a Class Five Felony on there for at least half a year," Chris said. Gavin's parents said the incident has shattered their son's trust in the police, and they are trying to build it back up. "Were trying to establish now for the boys a few events to help build trust in law enforcement because it was shattered. We want them to not be scared and show that law enforcement is their friends, and they need to show them the proper respect," Chris said.
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Armed ‘Patriots’ patrol Coeur d’Alene Men with semi-automatic weapons, handguns say they are here to protect city amid reports of militants heading this way
How’s the Second Amendment looking now, pal — with your city on fire and the Democrat politicians you voted for refusing to do anything about it?
So let me see if I understand your pious way of looking at the world…
You own us MAGAtards by continuing to vote for the same Democrats who have overseen decades of destruction of pretty much every major American city. Granted, it didn’t take De Blasio decades… Just a few years, but you get my drift.
You own Fox News by continuing to support far-left media outlets like CNNLOL that encourage the very riots and Antifa terrorists that are right now burning your neighborhood.
You own the police by supporting the Antifa and Black Lives Matter marauders who are right now burning and looting your neighborhood.
You own the NRA by refusing to own any kind of firearm.
Do I have that right?
Did I check off all the ways in which you are owning your political enemies? Did I miss any of your awesome ownage? Did I click all the boxes of all self-righteous posturing in that Ownage-o-rama of yours?
Well, look at you now…
You’ve spent five nights huddled in your apartment praying to Gaia that the terrorists you support (to own the Orange Bad Man, natch) don’t come-a-knockin’ because you got nothing to stop them — other than a nine-iron, which is awfully difficult to swing in that $2800 a month crackerbox you call an apartment.
Hey, you got exactly what you voted for, and you voted to be utterly defenseless as you cower in your apartment while the Democrats you vote for allow left-wing terrorists you champion to destroy your city, loot local businesses, and assault your neighbors.
Seriously, what did you think was going to happen as 1) your Democrats championed Antifa, while at the same time 2) your Democrats used a plague as an excuse to release violent criminals, while 3) your Democrats manipulated your bigotry towards Rural America to convince you to disarm yourself?
Your neighborhood is now filled with criminals, the Democrats you voted for hoodwinked you into not buying a firearm, and you’re surrounded by marauders with no way to protect yourself.
How’s that Right to Bear Arms looking now, Sunshine?
Because what’s happening right now is precisely why there is a Second Amendment. Even though — for all the reasons listed above — it’s your fault that law and order is non-existent in your city, our Founding Fathers still believed that, in the end, even a jackass like yourself enjoys the God-given right to self defense, especially when the government fails in its primary duty, which is to protect your life, your liberty, and your property…
And when you see these godless marauders swarm innocent people like something out of a zombie movie with no police in sight, you finally have an answer to that pompous question of yours: Why do the Guntards need AR-15s and magazines that hold all those bullets?
And do you want to know why else we Guntards need those AR-15s and those massive magazines that hold all that ammo? So that the left-wing terrorists you support know we have AR-15s and those magazines that hold all that ammo — which is why the left-wing terrorists you support don’t bother those of us out here in Rural America.
These riots are going to keep on keeping on, but they will keep on keeping on only in Democrat-run cities where the left-wing terrorists you support know everyone is owning the NRA by refusing to buy a firearm, by refusing to do fulfill their primary responsibility, which is to protect your home and family.
Eventually, all the stores will either be burnt out, looted out, or abandoned… And that will leave just you and your home to pillage, but at least you’ll be owning the NRA when your door’s kicked in.
This is blue on blue violence. This is the monsters you created turning on their creator. This is Democrats eating their own. This is not my problem.
I do hope you wake up before you get hurt.
But if you don’t, you can’t say no one warned you.
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