What should we do if some hateful stalker abuses such a law with a false accusation against us? Let’s hear from the lawyers.
I confess of being forgetful about this one. I saw the post and made a mental note to include it here, but my mental notebook sometimes behaves like an Etch-A-Scketch. The link the Mas provides to Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network is full of great advice. I urge you to read it.
Unfortunately the Chest Thumper Brigade© made its appearance and denounced anything short of shooting cops on sight for treason to the Country is not a valid outcome. Mas is too polite to reply the way they need to be answered, I am not polite:
Shut the fuck up with you Semi-Chavista revolutionary fantasies.
The idea is to fight an illegal Red Flag applied to you and win while remaining alive to celebrate victory. Being a corpse means you lost.
Fight smart, don’t fight Hollywood as they use blanks and police uses real boolits.
I’d be a lot less chest thumpy about this and wholeheartedly agree to let the courts sort it out…
IF.
If the process of getting my guns back wasn’t the actual punishment for the non-crime I didn’t commit.
If the accuser, once the allegations are proven false and my guns are returned, faced ANY form of sanction for the false report.
If the likelihood that my guns will be lost, stolen or damaged while in police custody wasn’t so very high.
If I hadn’t read the Gulag Archipelago…
In other legal news, it’s extremely rare for a woman initiating a divorce to falsely claim her husband molested the children, in order to illegitimately put herself in a stronger legal position. In nearly all cases where the family court imputed an income to the father, the amount is reasonable given his employment history.
Likewise, asset forfeiture where the accused was not convicted of a crime the assets were the proceeds of, is so rare we remember the cases individually by name.
Gulag Archipeligo is a must read.
I’m not sure who suggested in the article about having a safe friend hold a gun for you in a locked case in a secure place OUTSIDE of your home so you can access a gun if you really need one for your safety. I THINK it was one of the lawyers……lol
Intresting footnote, federal law and most state and local jurisdictions do not consider muzzle loaders and cap&ball revolvers to be “Firearms” and are legal to own even as a convicted felon or other such legaly restricted statuses. Such weapons can be stored loaded quite a long time if a varnish such as nail polish is applied around the cap to lock out moisture. Fun fact for when everything else met a tragic end during the boating accident.
As always research your local laws to ensure compliance.