Ravenwood - 03/26/04 07:00 AM
This is pretty disturbing and smacks of tyranny. Government police raid a man's home and seize 57 firearms. What happened next is pretty incredible.
The man was committed to a psychiatric hospital after the raid. He has since been released and is seeking to have his weapons returned, Berger said. However, under state and federal law, police can confiscate the weapons of those committed for mental health problems.That's right, police raid a man's home, involuntarily commit him to a mental institution, and then refuse to give him his guns back because he has a history of being involuntarily committed to a mental institution. What's to stop any anti-gun government (like Illinois, California, New York, New Jersey, etc. etc.) from doing this?
That's some catch, that Catch-22.
Posted by: Thibodeaux at March 26, 2004 11:29 AMNothing at all.
The one that bothers me is the federal law that says if you've been convicted of ANY crime for which you COULD HAVE RECEIVED a sentence of MORE THAN ONE YEAR - regardless of the sentence you did receive - you lose your right to arms.
Maryland has been using that one for a while now.
Posted by: Kevin Baker at March 26, 2004 11:58 AMI've been noticing more and more anti-gun attitudes with law enforcement officers since I've started my criminal justice studies. (Oddly enough all Sheriff deputies seem rather pro-gun.) I hope that if I ever get into that filed I can do some reversing of the damage.
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