“This is another tool in the toolkit from those that know individuals the most,” Newsom said. “What’s inevitable is you’re going to see these expansions in other parts of the country, and I think this will also expand the debate in Congress.”
Unfortunately, I believe this is happening.
Just when you think California couldn’t push the limits any further, Governor Gavin Newsom signed legislation last week to expand the state’s “red flag” laws into the broadest in the nation.
These new laws allow employers, co-workers, and teachers to seek gun violence restraining orders against other people. It also allows police, immediate family members, and roommates to ask a judge to temporarily confiscate guns and ammunition from anyone they think could be a danger to themselves or someone else.
“California has outperformed the rest of the nation, because of our gun safety laws, in reducing the gun murder rate substantially compared to the national reduction,” the governor bragged as he signed 15 gun-related pieces of legislation. “No state does it as well or comprehensively as the state of California, and we still have a long way to go.”
He said the new laws would guarantee continued success, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
One could assume that the success he is referring to is in regard to his state ignoring the 2nd and 4th Amendments and trampling on due process. They also ignore the 1s tAmendment, but that is not pertinent to this particular instance.
“This is another tool in the toolkit from those that know individuals the most,” Newsom said. “What’s inevitable is you’re going to see these expansions in other parts of the country, and I think this will also expand the debate in Congress.”
To aggravate gun-owners even more, the new law also expands the length of time that gun violence restraining orders could remain in effect, from one year to five years. It also provides judges the power to issue search warrants at the same time they issue the restraining orders.
Gun owners will still be able to petition the court to reduce the length of the restraining order.
Did you catch that? The gun-owner, having lost their weapons, often over false allegations and no due process, must petition the court to reduce a 5-year restraining order to fewer years.
by Mitch McKinley
