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Anyone outraged by this article? If so pass it along, because the idea that you can search without a warrant, seize w/o a warrant, based on no crime, only the offerings of another that a man may be nuts is NUTS. Now if he were nuts, and based on some type of reasoned SOP than I MIGHT entertain the discussion of the ability of the police to do this. But, not to remove his legally obtained weapons, this is just NUTS.

Well, no. It's criminal conduct. And FELONY criminal conduct, at that.

Title 18, United States Code, U.S. Criminal Code Section 242:
Deprivation of rights under color of law

Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to the deprivation of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or to different punishments, pains, or penalties, on account of such person being an alien, or by reason of his color, or race, than are prescribed for the punishment of citizens, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both;

and if bodily injury results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include the use, attempted use, or threatened use of a dangerous weapon, explosives, or fire, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.

>or may be sentenced to death.

If we applied that sentence to officers who do the no-knock-warrant/home-invasion SWAT teams, how long would it be before the police started behaving politely towards [other] Citizens?

Please indicate the last time this statute has been used, or indicate the thugs who have been even charged under this statute, in the last, say, twenty years...