Posted on 12/10/2019 6:49:23 PM PST by dontreadthis
A man from Deerfield Beach, Florida, faces a potential of five years in prison after being convicted for defying the states red flag law, which allows authorities to confiscate weapons from those deemed to be at high risk of committing a crime. The case is the first conviction under the states relatively new gun law, which was passed in part as a response to the horrific mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Since the red flag law went into effect in March 2018, Florida has seized guns from over 2,000 residents of the state. But while the state has taken thousands of weapons, it has not convicted anyone for violating the law until this week. As reported by the Sun Sentinel, after being charged in March 2018 under the law for refusing to hand over his firearms, Jerron Smith, 33, was convicted by a Broward Circuit court this week on charges carrying as many as five years in prison.
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Confusing, or perhaps just ignorant or slanted reporting, as is commonplace these days.
He was accused and part of his bail agreement was that he surrender all his firearms. He didn’t. I suspect that the conviction for the failure to surrender under red flag was used instead of failing to comply with a court order because the former carried a stiffer penalty.
Conservatives are old hand at inaction, that is for sure. Can you imagine them marching in protest?
Yes I remember the Tea Party gatherings
Until they were Alinsky ed in the media.
The ease at which they destroyed the Tea Party has remained disturbing to me. I attended two Tea Party rallies; and, came away exhilarated that conservatives had finally gotten off their duffs. Sadly, conservatives aren’t actually strongly committed to anything. The lame excuses for the Tea Party breakup are maddening.
Obama weaponized the entire government agencies against Tea Party groups, their lives were DESTROYED you cant blame them they honestly TRIED to over come these bastards!!! The DEEP STATE is to much to overcome their tentacles are throughout the entire government!! I blame my generation for not seeing this happening before it was to late!!!
For unknown reasons, I had blocked that aspect from my mind. Thank you for kicking me back onto the tracks.
They certainly picked an easy case. The offender was a bad dude with a history. Future cases may well be more complicated.
If he was “shooting at a car driven by a friend” in 2018, why didn’t they simply convict him for the assault? It would have had the same effect on him against possession of weapons.
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