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Written by Michael Hammond Published: 28 July 2020
Gun Owners of America Founder H. L. Richardson wrote a book entitled What Makes You Think We Read the Bills
That adage was never more true than last week, when a bucketload of House "pro-gun" Republicans voted to pass a giant defense bill containing, in its bowels, a "red flag" gun confiscation proposal for the military - hidden there by Nancy Pelosi's stooges.
Aidan Johnston, our Director of Federal Affairs, described this congressional farce in an article in the Houston Courant.
The House-passed Gun Confiscation Orders (GCOs) apply to persons subject to the United States Code of Military Justice. But, for them, it would be worse in many ways than the "red flag" Gun Confiscation Orders programs drafted in state legislatures.
The essentials are the same: a gun owner can be stripped of his or her Second Amendment-protected rights in an ex parte proceeding by an unsubstantiated allegation from a hostile relative who dislikes him or her. Experience shows that the confiscation normally occurs in a surprise raid on the gun owner's home in the middle of the night.
In more than one case, gun owners have been shot to death for "non-compliance." Now, thanks to the rabid onslaught of gun-hating politicians, it's sitting on the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Unlike the boilerplate Gun Confiscation Orders drafted by gun control groups and passed in 19 states, the House-passed NDAA bill allows the president-presumably, in their opinion, President Joe Biden-to write all of the particulars.
But this legislation raises several questions:
Read more at: https://gunowners.org/na07292020/?u...e are asking you to contact your two Senators
Gun Owners of America Founder H. L. Richardson wrote a book entitled What Makes You Think We Read the Bills
That adage was never more true than last week, when a bucketload of House "pro-gun" Republicans voted to pass a giant defense bill containing, in its bowels, a "red flag" gun confiscation proposal for the military - hidden there by Nancy Pelosi's stooges.
Aidan Johnston, our Director of Federal Affairs, described this congressional farce in an article in the Houston Courant.
The House-passed Gun Confiscation Orders (GCOs) apply to persons subject to the United States Code of Military Justice. But, for them, it would be worse in many ways than the "red flag" Gun Confiscation Orders programs drafted in state legislatures.
The essentials are the same: a gun owner can be stripped of his or her Second Amendment-protected rights in an ex parte proceeding by an unsubstantiated allegation from a hostile relative who dislikes him or her. Experience shows that the confiscation normally occurs in a surprise raid on the gun owner's home in the middle of the night.
In more than one case, gun owners have been shot to death for "non-compliance." Now, thanks to the rabid onslaught of gun-hating politicians, it's sitting on the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Unlike the boilerplate Gun Confiscation Orders drafted by gun control groups and passed in 19 states, the House-passed NDAA bill allows the president-presumably, in their opinion, President Joe Biden-to write all of the particulars.
But this legislation raises several questions:
- What will the standard of proof be for taking away the gun owner's constitutional rights?
- What will the accuser need to show?
- What constitutional rights will the military court proceedings recognize?
- What will the police do with their gun confiscation order? Ransack the house? Kill the "threatening" (i.e., non-compliant) gun owner?
Read more at: https://gunowners.org/na07292020/?u...e are asking you to contact your two Senators