Eminent domain still requires just compensation. Civil forfeiture happens AFTER you are convicted of a crime. It is part of a formal sentence following due process.
In theory, sure.
In practice, it ain't happening.
Civil forfeiture happens AFTER you are convicted of a crime. It is part of a formal sentence following due process.
Garcon! I'll have whatever he's smoking.
Not always.
You might want to check the record at FEAR.
They could just as easily charge the ammo with a crime. They've done that already with firearms suspected of being used in "drug crimes". Those folks have to sue to get their guns back, even if they, the actual humans, are never convicted of a crime, and often they run out of money before the goverment runs out of yours. The politically incorrect parts of the fifth amendment are in no better oder with the policritters than the entire second amendment is.
Don't forget the Emerson case and federal law -- a restraining order can make it illegal to possess ammunition or firearms. Emerson was not convicted of a crime and the District Judge said Emerson had made no threat against his wife (he did threaten to the wife to harm her lover, but that is not included in the fed law.) [ U.S. Code title 18, section 922(g)]