This is only an extension of existing loss of our rights. Traditionally you had to be convicted of a felony to lose your right to own a gun. The "Lautenberg(?) Amendment" put an end to that. Not only do you not have to be convicted, the infraction you are accused of doesn't have to be a felony or even a misdemeanor. If your wife decides she wants her new boyfriend to have your bass boat, and gets an "Order Of Protection" to keep you from pulling it out of the driveway; you can't buy a new deer rifle to replace you old one she gave him.
Mike
I have to agree with this. Until the introduction of these redflag laws, I thought the process to get a restraining order was the most BS thing ever created by man. Just on the assumption of probable cause of "abuse", a fellow can get tossed out of his home and disabused of his possessions for up to a month or more before a judge even looks at it. And that is no help either. I'm sure the judges that hear these cases are trained to believe whatever the victim says so long as it is plausible, but at least someone had to say "somebody did something to me" to get the order. I guess there would have to be at least evidence that "something" happened. Now with this redflag BS, we just get to speculate on who's gonna shoot up a crowd.
I cant say I'm surprised though. Laws like this that are passed in a panic when a long running shitty situation simmers with no redress and then it boils over and we get laws like this passed in the mess.
Thanks NRA! I would have happily traded universal background checks for this one.
