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MA: Baker Signs "Red Flag" Gun Bill
Submitted by:
David Williamson
Website: http://constitutionnetwork.com
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Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker on Tuesday signed a bill that will allow for the temporary removal of guns from people considered a danger to themselves or others. The new law lets a relative or someone else with close ties to a legal gun owner petition a court for a 12-month extreme risk protection order if the individual is exhibiting dangerous or unstable behavior. |
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PHORTO
(7/4/2018)
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"The individual can appeal the decision."
That does not satisfy due process. An adversarial hearing BEFORE a person's rights may be suspended is commanded by the 5th, 6th and 14th Amendments.
Merely providing an appeal after an ex parte hearing does not vitiate the unconstitutionality of this nonsense. |
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He, who has nothing, and who himself belongs to another, must be defended by him, whose property he is, and needs no arms. But he, who thinks he is his own master, and has what he can call his own, ought to have arms to defend himself, and what he possesses; else he lives precariously, and at discretion. — James Burgh, Political Disquisitions: Or, an Enquiry into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses [London, 1774-1775]. |
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