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After mass shooting, bill would require Army to use state crisis laws to remove weapons
AP ^ | 16 Sept 2024 | y DAVID SHARP

Posted on 09/16/2024 9:37:46 PM PDT by blueplum

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A bill introduced after a mass shooting in Maine would require the Army to use state crisis intervention laws to remove the weapons of a service member who is deemed to be a serious threat to themselves or others, U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the bill’s sponsor, said Monday....

It requires the military to participate in state crisis actions, including so-called red flag or yellow flag laws aimed at removing weapons from someone who’s experiencing a psychiatric emergency....

The Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Office was asked to go to Card’s home and check on his well-being after he’d threatened to “shoot up” the home of his Army Reserve unit, but a deputy who tried to meet with Card was unaware of details about what happened in New York state or the extent of his mental health crisis....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: banglist; congress; justintime; maine; military; militarypowers; sagadahoccounty; susancollins
I don't see how this bill would have prevented the shooting or how bypassing State Police/ Sheriffs would work. Do State Police depts not communicate with each other?

background from CNN:

Investigators said they believe the gun Card used in the massacre was legally bought just days before he was hospitalized and ordered into undergoing a psychiatric evaluation in mid-July, according to multiple law enforcement sources.

Card, who first enlisted in the Army Reserve in 2002, was reported by Army Reserve officials for “behaving erratically,” prompting New York State Police to respond to the Camp Smith military base where Card served in Cortlandt, New York.

Card was reportedly acting “belligerently and possibly intoxicated,” according to a source briefed on the matter, and state police transported him to a nearby hospital for suspected intoxication. He was released the next day, authorities said....

The encounters happened 10 days after Card purchased the high-powered rifle at a Maine gun store, law enforcement sources said.

1 posted on 09/16/2024 9:37:46 PM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Wonder how long before Tucker leaves Maine to the ‘rat dogs and moves here to Texas...


2 posted on 09/16/2024 9:39:36 PM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: blueplum

What is wrong with Collins! Does she want to send in an F-15?


3 posted on 09/16/2024 9:44:02 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: blueplum

It would be much more productive to remove guns from registered democrats.


4 posted on 09/16/2024 9:51:45 PM PDT by Revel
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To: Revel

Exactly, since they all oppose gun rights anyways.


5 posted on 09/16/2024 10:06:55 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: broken_clock

They have dreams of putting us against the wall and finally solutioning us all.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 10:51:26 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: broken_clock

[What is wrong with Collins! Does she want to send in an F-15?]

They have nukes too. That’s what Biden and Gassy Eric Swalwell says


7 posted on 09/16/2024 10:53:54 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Revel

“It would be much more productive to remove guns from registered democrats.”
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No Republican has attempted an assassination.

The FIRST Republican President was assassinated.


8 posted on 09/16/2024 11:00:21 PM PDT by Does so (Why is our PRINT-media being crafted by foreigners? 🇺🇦.....)
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To: Darksheare; SaveFerris

Collins sounds insane and it would be a good idea to primary her, yes?


9 posted on 09/16/2024 11:01:15 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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10 posted on 09/16/2024 11:17:29 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: blueplum

Would be time to start hunting Democrats at the State level...


11 posted on 09/17/2024 12:01:21 AM PDT by dpetty121263
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To: blueplum

Posse Comitatus Act?


12 posted on 09/17/2024 2:52:09 AM PDT by null and void (Don't hallucinate and legislate, don't hallucinate and educate, don't hallucinate and procreate)
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To: broken_clock

She wants to use the law to confiscate legally own firearms. This incident gives her the support to pass the bill, once passed you will see what it really is all about.


13 posted on 09/17/2024 4:57:05 AM PDT by Ronald77
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Your statement is the heart of the issue. Once started where will it go? It would likely start out with those deemed having mental issues and wanting to harm themselves having their guns removed.

Once passed the list of mental issues would expand.

Then the definition of mental issues would expand.

It would get to the point to where anyone opposing the democrat party has mental issues and their guns could be legally confiscated.

The 2A is very explicit, Shall Not Be Infringed!


14 posted on 09/17/2024 5:42:13 AM PDT by redfreedom (May God save us from what the Democrats do in the name of good.)
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To: broken_clock
Collins sounds insane and it would be a good idea to primary her, yes?

I can't remember a time that she didn't sound insane. Should have been gone years ago.

15 posted on 09/17/2024 6:42:42 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: blueplum
It requires the military to participate in state crisis actions, including so-called red flag or yellow flag laws aimed at removing weapons from someone who’s experiencing a psychiatric emergency...

Well, democrats won't have any guns withing weeks.

16 posted on 09/17/2024 7:58:31 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands. )
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