Posted on 03/12/2013 5:20:49 PM PDT by Texas Fossil
Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying 40-caliber Glock pistols, nine California Justice Department agents assembled outside a ranch-style house in a suburb east of Los Angeles. They were looking for a gun owner who’d recently spent two days in a mental hospital.
They knocked on the door and asked to come in. About 45 minutes later, they came away peacefully with three firearms.
California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.
“What do we do about the guns that are already in the hands of persons who, by law, are considered too dangerous to possess them?” Harris said in a letter to Vice President Joe Biden after a Connecticut school shooting in December left 26 dead. She recommended that Biden, heading a White House review of gun policy, consider California as a national model.
As many as 200,000 people nationwide may no longer be qualified to own firearms, according to Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis. Other states may lack confiscation programs because they don’t track purchases as closely as California, which requires most weapons sales go through a licensed dealer and be reported.
Nope.
There were no charges, civil or criminal.
No trial.
As far as a hearing before a Judge, I suspect some judge signed off on this confiscation.
Due process does not exist here.
It would disgust you to know how easy that is to do.
Good luck.
Garen Wintemute is down right creepy.
Isn’t this what people want, enforcement of the existing laws?
FYI Ping!
It is not perfectly clear that is the outcome, but it is implied in the wording of the article.
It is a fact that most weapons confiscated by police are very difficult to recover.
“How they’ll try to make it happen in some places” ping.
Yep, very creepy looking. AND his thinking is Insane.
http://ucdavismagazine.ucdavis.edu/issues/su12/graphics/wintemute_garen.jpg
Yup.
You become depressed after a death in the family and go to the Dr for Prozac, they take your guns away and the spouses guns away.
The Ex Wife gets a restraining order because she “feels threatened”, they take your guns away.
A nurse’s notes from something his wife said- really? WOW I hope there is at least a competency hearing for him to have a chance to defend himself if he does not agree.
Talk about creepy.
But I look out my door and this is still Texas where I live.
If they think this will work here or that Texas is going to be like Kalifornia, They are WRONG....
Agreed.
Oh, I know. I lived in Cali for 5 years. Aaaaaand, I moved.
Dollars to donuts this was not a gun registration issue.
This guy had a background check at the time of purchase, and that information is supposed to be purged after the approval process.
Guess where they got the info on the guns this guy owned.
No, this is not a registration issue.
It was triggered by something noted by a nurse when his wife entered a Psyc Hospital.
That put her on the no gun list and because he live with her his were confiscated.
They did nothing illegal, no charges were made, guns were taken by police....
Doesn’t the constitution say no private property can be taken for public use without compensation? Aren’t guns private property? I don’t believe it’s a crime to receive mental health treatment. Even if the state has the right to take guns from people who haven’t committed a crime, doesn’t the state still have to pay for the property that’s taken???
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