BELLEVUE, WA – -(AmmoLand.com)- The Second Amendment Foundation is cautioning the public about a new “toolkit” [embeded below] for gun control lobbying groups to help them campaign for passage of so-called “red flag” laws that create “Extreme Risk Protection Orders” designed to take firearms from people based on allegations from family members, intimate partners or others, raising concerns about due process.
The document, leaked to AmmoLand News, was produced jointly by the Alliance for Gun Responsibility, the Giffords gun control group and the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence.
“This document,” noted SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb, “raises alarms because there’s a lot in it about taking someone’s guns, but only two paragraphs about returning firearms to their rightful owner.”
He recalled an earlier 80-page guide, reportedly paid for by Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns, discovered during an Internet search, that provided strategies to anti-gun groups for mounting gun control campaigns in their communities. He co-authored a book about that experience titled “Dancing In Blood: Exposing the Gun Ban Lobby’s Playbook to Destroy Your Rights.”
Gottlieb’s alarms were raised by the inclusion of a letter from a California sheriff’s official that referred to a May 2014 multiple murder in Isla Vista, California as “a shooting spree.”
“Six victims in that rampage were stabbed or slashed to death,” Gottlieb recalled. “It also suggests the shooting occurred at the University of California, Santa Barbara campus, but it didn’t. The term ‘gun violence’ appears throughout, but there’s not a word about ‘knife violence’ nor any mention of the fact that the killer bought three firearms, all legally with background checks and waiting periods.
“We’re all for preventing violent crimes and tragedies such as suicide,” he added, “but there are genuine civil rights and due process concerns related to the use of such orders to disarm someone, following a court hearing they may not even be aware of, before they have a chance to defend against any allegations. This guide asserts guns are ‘temporarily’ removed, but that is not really be the case in some instances.
“This document calls itself a ‘toolkit’ for saving lives,” Gottlieb said, “but it talks more about taking guns from people than protecting their rights and means of self-defense. So far as we can tell, this is just another gun control strategy guide aimed at preventing gun ownership rather than preventing tragedies.”
Leaked: New ‘Gun Control Playbook’ To Push ‘Red Flag’ Laws
Second Amendment Foundation
The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control.
Red flag laws are tools of the tyrant. There is no reliable method for detecting precrime. And there is no shortage of charlatans, snake oil salesman, and Ivy League psychologists claiming they can. There are existing laws and approaches to protect the vulnerable from credible violent threats. Including the most effective approach – which is your inalienable right to buy a gun and get trained. Properly trained.
Here is proof they will take your guns and “lose” them… and there’s nothing you can do! Get the word out!
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“Consider amending policies to waive liability for damage to or loss of firearms that may occur in the course of an order.”
Giffords rants about guns, but does she ever say anything about the guy who misused one to shoot her?
Hey genius… did you know that the head of the SAF who is the guy that wrote this article is Jewish? Howabout Alan Gura, another Jew who won Heller in front of the SCOTUS? I could go on and on but I will just get to the point. Listen up… troll. Me and plenty of other Jews are shall we say… rabid 2A supporters, extremely conservative and have invested more love, time and coin in the 2A than you will ever know. I will not have you wantonly popping up here and smearing all of us with your broad anti-semitic… Read more »
There is also a “Toolkit” on the books to save Liberty from those that advocate the overthrow of America thru unconstitutional means. TITLE 18, U.S.C., SECTION 242. explains.
I like how they claim due process is included in their playbook (taking away firearms and having a hearing within a short time) and how after the person has been cleared of being harmful to someone they “may” get their firearms back. feelings are good to have, but you shouldn’t let them rule your life.
These idiots do not know if they are successful, they are already members of the NEW WALKING DEAD CLUB coming soon to a city near you.
Keep trampling CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, with Unconstitutional SO called laws(which is what they are doing) and blood will have to be shed.
The Constitution and BOR’S/Articles DEMAND it of it’s MILITIAS.
The Constitution’s,Supremacy clause makes all their passed BS NO LAW at all.
They are TRAITORS and guilty of SEDITION.
The thing about anti-constitutional people is that they are same as those immigrants fleeing so-called “oppression” from one failed country, and into the next because it’s what they know and feel they deserve. Rooting them out becomes impossible, as they keep finding more and more ways of turning the Constitution into just a piece of paper. Either you send them back to whatever rock they climbed out from under of their own country, or shed their blood there are no other options. Well, there is one last option: you could just always roll over.
After Hitler I am always amazed at the Jews against Firearms ownership.
Leftists masquerading as gun safety advocates like red flag laws because it circumvents the Constitution. No due process means they don’t have to justify their actions, only their intent.
Democrats have set a precedence of accusations without facts, to charge crimes without evidence.
Red flag laws are exactly that.