I received some disturbing information this week. Sheriff John McMahon’s staff has a “list” of names that have been compiled by the Department of “mentally ill” individuals who have guns registered to them. It is the intention of the Department to confiscate these guns without due process.
Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to mental illness.
Such was recently the case for one woman, who had been in the hospital voluntarily for mental illness last year that she says was due to medication she was taking. Lynette Phillips of Upland, CA said she had purchased a gun years ago for her husband, David, as a present. That gun, as well as two others registered to her law-abiding husband (who does not have a history of felonies or mental illness), were seized.
Her husband is upset that they took the right from him that should never have been taken.
But according to the state of California, that doesn’t matter.
“The prohibited person can’t have access to a firearm” regardless of who the registered owner is, Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office.
The California Department of Justice is running a program to confiscate registered guns from homes that local law enforcement refused to implement. It’s called the Armed Prohibited Persons (APPs) program.
Merely being in a database of registered gun owners and having a “disqualifying event,” such as a isn’t sufficient evidence for a search warrant, So the officers often must talk their way into a residence to look for weapons.
How does the Department know who is mentally ill and who at the Department defines mental illness?
Gun owners are losing their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.
HIPAA Laws are likely being compromised and the 4th and 5th Amendments are being violated in some of these cases.
Just like anyone, I do not want a mentally ill person to own a firearm. But I do not want the government taking guns from sane people they call mentally ill.
Paul Schrader (909) 732-6964
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Where is the ACLU on this?
Re-posted on my blog. Mentioned in comments section of Victorville Daily Press.
It’s pretty damn sad. And what of the deputies who have seen their in-house shrink? Will my V.A. visits back in the early 80’s qualify me as a prohibited person? When my wife was ran over by a drunk driver and died 31 days later in 99 and I took it extremely hard and was given Xanax disqualify me?
Ain’t gonna happen.
That’s what I want to know. People have problems in the past that are temporary. Is that considered Mentally ill?
It seems that way. Go through some traumatic situation in life, voluntarily commit yourself, see a doctor, get a pill… get labelled a psycho. We’ve seen it with many veterans. By the way, when my wife died of her injuries from being hit by that drunk driver, the Sheriff’s Dept. and the then County DA and V.V. DA Christy didn’t make it any easier in the way they treated me.
Reminds me of when my mother had her accident at home. Dad called me and I drove to the house to find some deputy repeatedly tell my dad that he was doing a “homicide investigation”. I finally told him to shut the F up.
i think its a cover, how else can they penitrate law abiding citizens homes. the sheriff’s have taken my husbands gun collections twice once recently he cannot get them to give them back
All public employees are paid by us, and when we want to talk with them they need to be available and respond. Does this appointed Sheriff understand that we are his employers? Apparently not!
John McMahon is nothing more than a little spineless ass kissing traitor who’s trying to score brownie points with the Federal Government with hopes that he’ll get moved up the ladder for grabbing his ankles for Obama. When all is said and done, he’s gonna get tossed unter the same bus as everyone else once his “useful idiocy” is no longer required.
“Just like anyone, I do not want a mentally ill person to own a firearm.” No, and I don’t want to be struck by lightning either. But I don’t lose a lot of sleep worrying about it!
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — HL Mencken
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