Posted on 03/17/2018 7:05:16 AM PDT by cyn
A Broward County judge on Friday issued the states first order temporarily removing guns from a person under Floridas new gun-control laws.
Four firearms and 267 rounds of ammunition were ordered removed...under the states new risk protection law...
The man was also taken to a hospital for involuntary psychiatric treatment under the states Baker Act. But the civil ruling removing his access to guns and ammunition was granted under the new legislation which permits confiscating guns from people who have not been committed but are deemed a potential risk to themselves or others, according to the order signed by Browards Chief Judge Jack Tuter...
Lighthouse Point police made the request on March 14, one week after they were called to conduct a welfare check on the man, who they said was behaving strangely at his condominium building. Authorities said it was the latest in a series of encounters law enforcement had with the man, though he has no prior history of arrests in Florida. He had some prior arrests in Pennsylvania, records show...
Lighthouse Point Police Chief Ross Licata said officers have had interactions with the man over a number of years but none of them had risen to the level that would have warranted removing the mans access to guns. There was also no legal method to do so in the past...
At [next] hearing, police would have to present clear and convincing evidence more than was needed for the temporary removal of guns and ammunition to keep the weapons in their custody for the next year. Any violation of the court order would be a third-degree felony, punishable by up to five years in state prison and a $5,000 fine.
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An unnamed 56 yo man in coastal FL town of Lighthouse Point in Broward County, 14 miles east of Parkland, was TRULY speaking & acting irrationally (paranoid schizophrenic?), "Baker Acted" (involuntary commitment with cause, determined by judge to be in danger of harming to himself or others.
Baker Act, from 2017 FL statutes
Due process" concerns are built into the law re: when firearms will be returned to the individual.
HOWEVER, it is not neccessary to be committed in order to have one's firearms taken under the new law SB7026.
Slippery slope?
Very much a slippery slope.
If you have not done so by now it is a good time to take some eggs out of the basket and put them in another.
“Speaking and acting irrationally.....”
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Liberals would place anyone saying “Trump in 2020” in this category.
Makes me think twice about considering a move to Florida.
slippery slope indeed
Just like the fisa court won’t be abused this law won’t either.
/sarcasm
Beyond slippery slope, this is outright a violation of constitutional rights. So a neighbor complaining about someone is all it takes to subject you to confiscation and psychological evaluation. This should chill both left and right to the bone, but of course it wont. The left sees it as an effective tool for their political agenda and the right are all to often cheerleaders for police power.
APPROPRIATION: $400,000,000.00
Effective Date: 3/9/2018
New wave of SWATing to commence.
Not sure that I agree. The cops went and interviewed him and Baker Act’d him. The Baker Act has a pretty high threshold for police to act. You have to express an intent to hurt yourself or others. Sometimes even gun owners lose it.
This I find very bothersome.
Many war veterans have PTSD. Depression is most often a component of PTSD. Depression often makes one suicidal, thus a threat.
The vast majority of such vets are not criminals, have no arrest records and are good citizens. IMO they are better citizens because they actually laid their lives on the line in combat.
Now the very country they have defended is being set up to disarm them?
With the establishment also disarm LEO’s that have duty related PTSD?
Once it becomes “legal” to start taking guns away from certain groups, where will it end?
In my last post “With” should be “Will”.
This is like people dying in car crashes and then seizing seat belts. “How dare you have protection”.
Valid concerns, it seems to me, especially since Trump supporters are known to be mentally defective deplorables.
In liberalism/socialism's shifting sands, what we think is reasonable ("due process" "adjudicated mentally defective") is gonna be my next door neighbor or ME down the road.
"committed to a mental institution" -- could be argued to include a hospitalization for, say, post-partum depression in the past.
Indeed.
There will be eccentric..but not dangerous...people losing their rights while the likes of Sr Cruz will be untouched.
YES -- thanks for your post; that is an even more immediate concern than the "post-partum" depression I mentioned above.
And, THANKS to all veterans for all you have gone through for our freedom.
‘If you have not done so by now it is a good time to take some eggs out of the basket and put them in another.’
That’s why I do not like gun safes. It’s like one stop shopping for gun confiscation. A simple metal cutting wheel type tool can peel one open in a few minutes and they can just reach in like a common thief and take all.
I’m certain most here know that with an 8 inch post hole digger, some 6” PVC pipe supplies, vac-seal equipment and a place not on your own property, that a gun can be hidden where no one can find it.
So Broward Sheriff Scott Israel's guns get confiscated, eh?
This dingbat is a perfect description of someone who should never own a gun.
If it gets to the point where you have to bury your weapons off-property, CWII will have already started.
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