"Red Flag" Gun Confiscation "SWATing"

Three years ago, I was served with a restraining order by a vengeful ex-fiancee in California. She claimed that I was "stalking" her, but in actuality I broke off the relationship and was actually avoiding her (I instituted "no contact"). This was in "revenge" for this and due to an impending Small Claims lawsuit I was filing against her (that was settled on the court show, Hot Bench).

In 2014, California passed a "Gun Violence Restraining Order Law". This was the law that affected my case. Until this matter, I never heard of such a thing as this. I had to surrender my guns to either the police or to a licensed gun dealer until the court hearing dismissed it (I had more than adequate proof that I wasn't doing the stalking, she was).

The process cost me some attorney fees and other fees to get all of my guns back. For details on my case, go here.

Now, New Mexico passed a similar "red flag" law and is about to be signed by the governor.

Of all of the gun bills passed by New Mexico's radical liberal majority, the "red flag" legislation is the most insidious.

NOQ Report has a good article and video on how these gun-grabber laws now in vogue are a danger to our constitutional rights.

It begins with:

A new video from the Firearms Policy Coalition highlights the dangers to Liberty and due process posed by so-called ‘Red Flag’ Laws. 

Gun confiscation SWATing, Extreme risk protective orders or so-call ‘Red Flag’ Laws are all the rage of the Liberty grabber Left and RINO’s these days. It’s bad enough that these unnecessary and unconstitutional violations of everyone’s due process rights are being ‘Rahmed’ through on a state level. But both the US House and Senate have their own versions. The latter co-sponsored by Senator Marco ‘RINO’ Rubio (R-FL) with the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold hearings on March 26. 

In a case of trying to solve a rare but emotionally charged problem, these will only serve to create an even bigger problem destroying several civil and human rights in the process. We’ve already established that this type of legislation is unnecessary since Involuntary Civil Commitment laws that protect due process rights are already on the books. Thus we have woefully unconstitutional gun confiscation coupled with and evisceration of due process rights. It’s enough to have any tyrant glow with pride.

Also, of interest to me, they discuss the abuse of such laws to "settle a score" as my ex did to me.

They wrote:

The danger of ‘Settling a score’ with someone with a gun confiscation SWATing 

There is the danger that someone could use these SWATing orders to ‘settle a score’ with someone – even if they don’t own a gun. In fact, it could be worse for the person in that situation since law enforcement would be incentivized to become more intense in searching for something that doesn’t exist. What is there to stop someone from using the threat of bringing one of these down on someone as a form of extortion?

 To read more and see the video, go here.