I live in the People’s Republic of Maryland and am subject to these laws. If any “friend” or relative subjected me to one of these red flag raids, I would peacefully surrender all firearms in my home and all firearms that can through records be identified as belonging to me. I would then permanently cut that person out of my life as soon as I lawfully reacquired my own property, faking civility until the legal crisis passed. Would I divorce over such an attack? Despite an otherwise completely happy marriage, yes - immediately - if my wife took that step.
As for the loss of this man’s life, I find it sad. He made bad decisions when faced by the police, and his friends/relatives made even worse decisions.
Yeah, the Red Flag law is bad but geeezzz ... you answer a door with a gun in your hand when the police are the ones that are knocking?
Who in their right mind would do that? Maybe the Red Flag was needed in this case.
Meddling liberal do-gooders. They’re what ball pen hammers were made for.
That is sensible. If possible they should be sued into oblivion.
I can see authorities and activists ginning up confiscations based on lies to get people’s guns and you can bet they will be molasses slow returning them if they ever do.
“I would then permanently cut that person out of my life as soon as I lawfully reacquired my own property, faking civility until the legal crisis passed.”
Now, if my father had been essentially murdered on the word of a family member, even when I was a child, I wouldn’t give two cents for the value of that family member’s life X number of years down the line, and X number of years after I had to plan an appropriate response. Depending upon the behavior of the police during the incident, there would also be something of a reaction X number of years down the line. Just saying.
I wouldn’t blame you for divorcing your wife if she made such a petition. It’s still a bad law, in spite of protections added by the Maryland Senate.