FTA: Among the many misguided gun control proposals from Governor Northam is a so-called “Red Flag Law.” This measure may be the single greatest threat to our constitutional freedoms ever introduced in the Commonwealth of Virginia. His red flag law would give the Commonwealth power to remove a person’s firearms without any evidence a person is suffering from a prohibiting condition such as mental illness, drug addiction or criminality.
Under the Northam bill, the Commonwealth could simply claim a person is dangerous without any guidelines for defining what that means or in what time frame the person poses a risk. In other words, the Northam red flag law would create a gun control free-for-all.
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Among the many misguided gun control proposals from Governor Northam is a so-called “Red Flag Law.” This measure may be the single greatest threat to our constitutional freedoms ever introduced in the Commonwealth of Virginia. His red flag law would give the Commonwealth power to remove a person’s firearms without any evidence a person is suffering from a prohibiting condition such as mental illness, drug addiction or criminality.
Under the Northam bill, the Commonwealth could simply claim a person is dangerous without any guidelines for defining what that means or in what time frame the person poses a risk. In other words, the Northam red flag law would create a gun control free-for-all.
Should this pass, I foresee law enforcement officers asking local judges to take away peoples’ guns with this claim: “Your Honor, this person bought five semiautomatic handguns in the past month and 3,000 rounds of ammunition. We are of the opinion that this behavior comports with a substantial risk of harm in the near future by way of firearms.”
by Dennis Petrocelli, MD
