This site pointed me to:
http://www.mngunreport.com/
They were talking about the "Red Flag-Gun Confiscation" law an I got to thinking.
So how would the mechanics of the “Red Flag-Gun Confiscation” law work?
A “Red Flag-Gun Confiscation” order has been issued against “Troubled” Joe Shooter. So now what happens? I don’t really know but something like the following seems like it must occur. Do anti-gun folk realize this?
1. A police car and two or three officers show up at Joe Shooters house. Joe Shooter has been flagged so the officers don’t want to leave him alone while they toss his house. They could lock him in the back of the patrol car, take him “downtown” or have an officer watch him. I’m guessing they’d probably have someone watch him. So I think three officers and one car is the minimum presence required.
2. The officers have to search Joe Shooter’s house for guns. Rifles, shotguns, “assault weapons” and even the itty-bitty Ruger LCP or S&W J-frame.
3. They check the toilet tank, ala Godfather. They check the cookie jar in the kitchen, ala Rockford and Stephanie Plum.
4. They go downstairs and check the rafters in the basement for long guns. They also go through every box, toolkit, trunk, suitcase and backpack down there. If there’s any furniture they look under it. If there’s any furniture with drawers they look through the drawers and remove the drawers to look behind them.
5. In the bed room they check the bed side table. They look under the mattress. They look under the box spring. They take out every drawer in every piece of furniture in the room like they did in the basement. They look under and behind every piece of furniture. Remember the itty-bitty handgun? They pat down every piece of clothing with a pocket in the closet or the drawers. They take out everything in the closet and check inside all the shoes and boots.
6. In the main rooms they do the thing with the furniture again, under and behind. They check all the wall hangings for a wall safe. They check all the flooring for a floor safe. They look at all the grates on the air ducts. In the kitchen they check the freezer for a box of frozen cauliflower that actually contains the itty-bitty handgun.
7. They check all the jackets and coats in the entry way closets. They check all the books in all the bookcases lest there is a hollowed out book or a gun hidden behind the books in the book case. The bookcase get moved too to see if there is a gun hidden behind them.
8. Any cases and boxes in the basement, house or attic will have to be checked. This goes for the garage and the cars too.
How long is this search going to take? Above I imagined we’ve got two or three cops doing this. Doing this when they could be out patrolling the streets, stopping off at schools, chasing bad guys etc.
This “Red Flag-Gun Confiscation” check might be expensive!
Now the house has been tossed and the police are reasonably certain they have all “Troubled” Joe Shooter’s guns.
1. Do they take all the magazines/speed loaders?
2. Do they take all the ammunition?
3. What if Joe is a reloader? Do they take all his reloading equipment?
I don’t know.
What kind of condition is Joe’s house left in? Do the police put back everything like they found it?
After the authorities leave, “Troubled” Joe Shooter is now alone at his house with all his tools, his F150 pickup, a couple propane tanks, a pressure cooker from kitchen left out on a kitchen counter next to a Chicago Cutlery block of eight assorted fine steel knives, a five gallon can of gasoline, several quart containers of motor oil in the garage and a fifty foot length of para-cord left on a workbench in the basement. A dispassionate observer might just wonder if “Troubled” Joe Shooter is really without resources to harm himself or others?
A couple questions.
1. Do the police tell “Troubled” Joe Shooter’s parents not to lend him any guns?
2. Do they tell his ex-wife? His adult kids? His uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces and buddies?
3. Do the police even know who his buddies are?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Note: I do not know how a search for guns would be conducted. I do not know what condition a person’s house would be left in after a search. I have no idea if the “Red Flag-Gun Confiscation” law would even mandate a search of the person’s home. I have absolutely no idea what-so-ever of what having their house searched would do to a “Troubled” person’s mental state.