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States look to gun seizure law after mass killings

Postby MXGreg on Sun Jul 06, 2014 6:16 pm

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07 ... -killings/

HARTFORD, Conn. – As state officials across the U.S. grapple with how to prevent mass killings like the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and near the University of California, Santa Barbara, some are turning to a gun seizure law pioneered in Connecticut 15 years ago.

Connecticut's law allows judges to order guns temporarily seized after police present evidence that a person is a danger to themselves or others. A court hearing must be held within 14 days to determine whether to return the guns or authorize the state to hold them for up to a year.

The 1999 law, the first of its kind in the U.S., was in response to the 1998 killings of four managers at the Connecticut Lottery headquarters by a disgruntled employee with a history of psychiatric problems.


"The government taking things away from people is never a good thing," said Rich Burgess, president of the gun rights group Connecticut Carry. "They come take your stuff and give you 14 days for a hearing. Would anybody else be OK if they just came and took your car and gave you 14 days for a hearing?"

Rachel Baird, a Connecticut lawyer who has represented many gun owners, said one of the biggest problems with the state's law is that police are abusing it. She said she has had eight clients whose guns were seized by police who obtained the required warrants after taking possession of the guns.

"It's stretched and abused, and since it's firearms, the courts go along with it," Baird said of the law.


It's in Connecticut and Indiana, being considered in Cali and New Jersey. How much you want to bet they'll try to spread this far and wide. :x
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Re: States look to gun seizure law after mass killings

Postby farmerj on Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:13 pm

news flash for ya folks....

All you HAVE to be considered is a prohibited person. Been around since like 93-94 when Lautenberg got his amendment passed. VAWA didn't help the matter either.
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States look to gun seizure law after mass killings

Postby jshuberg on Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:14 pm

If a person is a danger to themself or others, they should be brought before a judge and then locked up in the bug house. If they're dangerous enough to warrant their firearms being seized, I don't want them out and about with the rest of us. Period.

My guess, this law exists for the sole purpose of seizing a persons firearms for otherwise unjustified and illegal purposes. It's probably only a matter of time before this law is used the way that IRS audits and tax exempt status denials were used against conservatives. It's very purpose is to provide a thinly veiled justification for abuse.

Once again, if a person is determined to be a danger to self or others, there is already a legal means to remove them from society that doesn't violate their due process rights.
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Re: States look to gun seizure law after mass killings

Postby Nougat on Sun Jul 06, 2014 8:21 pm

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnepropetrovsk_maniacs

murderers don't need guns. the people who really want them out of your hands already realize that though and they have more resources to convince the masses the opposite is true than ''gun nuts'' do, so what can you really do?
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