These red flag laws are an attack on the Constitution and personal rights and in no way intended to help ones health.
Center-right in the photograph is a flintlock pistol. Did police also empty kitchen drawers of knives (and forks)?
The red flag law in the People’s Republics of Maryland has already gotten someone killed.
The Virginia legislature IS the Red Flag. (Red as in Stalinist/Nazi Totalitarian)
At any given moment there are people roaming the streets who are a serious,and immediate,threat to themselves and/or others.It goes without saying that you don't want such people to have a firearm.But you also don't want them "on the loose" either.
Bottom line...those who are too unstable to have a firearm are also too unstable to be "free".IOW,do away with "red flag" laws and start enforcing the laws regarding involuntary commitment.
Red flag laws have nothing to do with safety...and they have *everything* to do with contempt for the 2nd Amendment and those who wish to exercise their rights under 2A.
“Red Flag” gun laws are unconstitutional.
They violate the Second, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution.
To Wit:
Second — Right to keep and bear Arms
Fourth — Unreasonable search and seizure
Fifth — Due process of law; private property taken
Sixth — Right to be confronted with the witnesses against and Assistance of counsel (Miranda warning)
Fourteenth — “. . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; . . .”
It wasn’t engineered to be the best way to handle mental health issues. It was engineered to cause chaos in the gun debate. If you approach every progressive agenda from the viewpoint of them causing chaos the picture becomes clear.
No one who can not be trusted to be armed should be running around loose.
Red Flag Law Legality/Efficacy - bump for later....
I say we go along with it and make Lying to the public by a Public Employee a Serious Mental Illness that requires Mandatory Red Flag Enforcement.