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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 state’s “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 state’s 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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And therein lies the problem.
Anybody can be accused of anything.
Someone could just go through the phone book and pick out names and blow you in and you're guilty until proved innocent.
Heck, then it's up to you to prove that you've never owned a gun even cause they'll just think you're lying and had gotten the guns illegally and are hiding them.
When the orders arrived at his home, Smith “did not fully understand how far his rights extended, or more significantly, how far they did not,” the Sun Sentinel reports. His defense lawyer, Jim Lewis, insists that Smith simply did not understand that the new law gave authorities the power to seize his weapons.
So it took a year for them to issue the “risk protection order” or they waited a year to enforce it. Something doesn’t smell right or the story is incomplete.
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Anybody got more on this?
This guy ain’t our poster boy for getting these laws overturned.
musta been an I-foam
It may have been who's nekkid pics were in the phone.
Seems like the state is using this new law as a tool to selectively clean up behind its own questionable practices.
Just wait!
Red flag laws by their very nature violate due process, to say nothing of the Second Amendment. This guy should appeal it in federal court and bring it all the way to the Supreme Court. I am sure that he would be able to get financing from various gun organizations, and from a go fund me campaign.
yea, I posted to quick
The law needs to be tested in the US Supreme Court
Exactly.
And posts to the effect that we should all support him make conservatives look bad.
I wonder how many of them have read the article....and how many are trolls who want us to look bad.
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If his friend doesn’t care I’m not sure why the police have to unless it was in city limits. Just pay a fine.
Agree. But they didn’t need a “red flag” law to deal with this guy. And some judge will love to use this case to set “precedent”.
Florida has to now be crossed off the list of free states.
Denial of rights.
Rather then using the legal means that has been in place for hundreds of years. Showing he has lost his mind they want to use these cases as test cases. Or maybe they're far easier to implement then the old system?
“the news media does not tell us what kind of cell phone he was shooting over.”
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It’s legal to shoot someone if it’s a certain brand of cellphone?
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