California Seizes Guns as Owners Lose Right to Keep Arms...

[stevie_d_64]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-1 ... cmpid=yhoo" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Why am I not surprised...

[Reds45ACP]

...So he did nothing wrong and is mentally stable but gets to have his property taken away and destroyed with no due process? Damn I am glad to be out of that Fascist State....

[A-R]

As we as a society jump headlong into making more citizens "prohibited" from owning guns, we need to set the SAME penalties for those who falsely label a person in a capacity that makes them prohibited.

If a false accusation = someone loses their gun rights,
then the false accuser loses his working rights (license revoked, lifetime ban on working in any field with any ability to influence such "prohibited" designations

If a false accusation = someone goes to prison for 20 years,
then the false accuser goes to prison for 20 years

They had better luck in nearby Upland, where they seized three guns from the home of Lynette Phillips, 48, who’d been hospitalized for mental illness, and her husband, David. One gun was registered to her, two to him.
“The prohibited person can’t have access to a firearm,” regardless of who the registered owner is, said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office.
In an interview as agents inventoried the guns, Lynette Phillips said that while she’d been held involuntarily in a mental hospital in December, the nurse who admitted her had exaggerated the magnitude of her condition.
Todd Smith, chief executive officer of Aurora Charter Oak Hospital in Covina, where documents provided by Phillips show she was treated, didn’t respond to telephone and e-mail requests for comment on the circumstances of the treatment.
Phillips said her husband used the guns for recreation. She didn’t blame the attorney general’s agents for taking the guns based on the information they had, she said.
“I do feel I have every right to purchase a gun,” Phillips said. “I’m not a threat. We’re law-abiding citizens.”
No one was arrested. Most seized weapons are destroyed, Gregory said.

[RX8er]

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.

How come someone doesn't go arrest Attorney General Kamala Harris? Isn't it illegal to track guns?

[MeMelYup]

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.

How come someone doesn't go arrest Attorney General Kamala Harris? Isn't it illegal to track guns?

I think it is only illegal for the federal gov't not the state.

[JALLEN]

According to a report, there are some 39,000 guns in the hands of approximately 19,000 people who are not eligible to own or possess guns. These include felons on parole or probation, adjudicated mental patients, the categories of people who could not lawfully buy a gun or possess one now.

The main reason it is getting attention now is because it has not been acted on before. Nobody cared about acting to enforce it, so the situation developed.

This is only the number of guns in the hands of a number of people who have registered guns, as part of the mandatory registration process here where every firearm sale goes through an FFL for DOJ clearance. There is a 10 day wait between submission of the paperwork to DOJ and picking up the gun, even if you get clearance the same afternoon.

If you are deprived of possession of your gun, and it ends up in official custody, you must complete and application for clearance with DOJ, and pay a fee unless the gun was reported stolen. That clearance is good for 30 days.

You might wonder if I am making this up, but I'm not. Somebody did, though.