The California Department of Justice, a dubious title to be sure, is now going into homes to seize (steal) guns from those that California now says have lost their “right” to own firearms.
Of course these state employed cretins are all armed with semi-automatic weapons and wear bullet proof vests as they enter the homes of California residents. One house was recently raided, and guns seized, because the wife in question had spent two days in a so-called “mental hospital last December. Her gun was taken from the home by police, but so were the guns belonging to her husband. No guns were allowed to remain in the home!
Stated In this article today at Bloomberg:
“California is the only state that tracks and disarms people with legally registered guns who have lost the right to own them, according to Attorney General Kamala Harris. Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable.”
There are several things that stand out in the statement above, but most obvious is that if you have any desire for liberty, do not take up residence in California. If you already live there, the incentive to move out of that state is evident.
California law requires that most weapon sales go through a licensed dealer, which means that most guns purchased have to be registered and reported. This is ludicrous, and flies in the face of liberty, and certainly erases all rights of privacy concerning the owning of firearms.
The reasons for confiscation of guns by the state of California rests on whether the state considers you a felon, or if you have been accused of domestic violence and are under a restraining order, or, and this is the most dangerous, if you are “deemed mentally unstable.” Because there are so many laws on the books, virtually everyone commits multiple crimes a day, and most of course are completely unknown by the citizen perpetrator. As for domestic violence, that is one of the most cloudy areas of the law due to the fact that in most cases, it is a he said, she said situation. That leaves wide open the possibility for fraud and abuse. As for the “mentally unstable,” well sufficed to say, at any given moment all of us could be accused of this mostly bogus claim, but it is even worse!
Under Obamacare, medical practitioners of all stripes will be required to ask their patients about guns in the home. In addition, they will be required to divulge to government officials the treatments and medications that a patient is taking. In the case of medical doctors, and especially considering the fields of psychology and psychiatry, many drugs prescribed, such as anti-depressants for example, could be used by the state to claim that any taking these drugs suffer from “mental illness.” Considering California’s laws, and the fact that California is acting as a national model for gun control, this could lead to forced gun confiscation all over the country. That is an untenable situation!
The federal government will continue its assault on gun owners, and will use many different tactics to achieve total gun confiscation. What California is doing will creep into other states over time, and restrictions on gun ownership will continue to escalate in the future. It will not happen overnight, but will be an incremental destruction of our rights to possess firearms. Always remember that the goal of the government is to have an unarmed and unprotected citizenry, and one that has not the ability to deter tyranny. Every step toward more restriction of gun ownership is another nail in the coffin of freedom!