This is not a joke! At this very moment, Democrat Debbie Dingell and Republican Fred Upton are quietly pitching federal legislation that would empower federal agents to break down your door and confiscate your firearms from your home without prior warning and WITHOUT DUE PROCESS. And we're not talking about gun-control here. We're talking about gun-CONFISCATION!
This horrendous development is being ignored, in large part, by the mainstream media but Breitbart just reported "that she [Dingell] is preparing to introduce legislation to create a federal law allowing firearm confiscation orders."
According to sources in Washington, Dingell and Upton are presently meeting with other Members of Congress behind closed doors in order to get them to buy the concept AND THEN, once they believe they have the votes, they then plan to actually write the legislation, and literally RAILROAD it through Congress, before anyone knows what the hell is happening.
And moreover, to make matters worse, sources on the Hill are also indicating that Dingell and Upton are very close to obtaining enough votes to pass this legislative proposal through both Houses of Congress and possibly even obtained enough votes to forestall a Senate filibuster!
Time is not on our side folks. If this proposed legislation passes (and it could pass in a matter of days), the Second, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution will be effectively NULLIFIED. We must act to stop this lunacy NOW!
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Confiscate Guns First... Due Process Later.
Here's how Red Flag Laws (also known as Extreme Risk Protection Orders) presently work. Seriously folks, we're talking about some real third-world, banana republic stuff here.
Based upon a purely subjective opinion, police officers are empowered to show up at your home to confiscate your legally owned and registered firearm.You do not have to be accused of any crime, you don't have to do anything to trigger the action, the police do not need probable cause, you are not told about this action in advance and you are prohibited - if by some off chance you find out about it - from facing your accusers or even pleading your case to a civil authority before they take your gun.
If a police officer or a nosey neighbor thinks you should not have a firearm, the police bust down your door and take your weapon... PERIOD!
Then, after a certain period of time has passed, you may then petition the court to have your 2nd Amendment rights reinstated; and when you do, the burden if proof is on you.
Michael Hammond, the Legislative Counsel for Gun Owners of America explains the process as follows:
"After a fixed period of time... the gun owner can ask for a court hearing to restore his or her constitutional rights. But guess what? Few gun owners have the sophistication or the thousands of dollars it would take to hire a lawyer and expert witnesses. And few courts are willing to second-guess themselves and reverse the Gun Confiscation Order which has been issued."
"In fact, hundreds of thousands of veterans have lost their gun rights without due process pursuant to a comparable procedure. And recent revelations from the VA suggest that fewer than 50 have successfully invoked this "process" to get their rights back."
Hammond goes on:
"But there's a larger issue: If the Constitution can be suspended in a secret hearing, where does this lead?"
"What if this newspaper could be shut down for 21 days without due process — based on a secret complaint? Or an individual could be arrested or imprisoned for 21 days? Or tortured?
"Far from being a 'consensus proposal,' the suspension of the Constitution in a secret hearing is a constitutional Rubicon from which there is no return."
And yes, unless you take action right here and right now, this Rubicon WILL be crossed... possibly in a matter of days! In spite of the fact that no legislation has even been formally introduced yet, Dingell and Upton are very close to having the votes to ram this egregious violation of the Constitution through Congress.
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Due Process? ... We Don't Need No Stinking Due Process?
Debbie Dingell issued a press release a short time ago and stressed that the seizure of firearms must occur in a way that protects due process, but it's more than clear that Dingell has no concept of what constitutes due process.
Breitbart again:
"Dingell stressed that seizure of firearms must occur in a way that protects due process, but she did not explain how such protection is possible. In California an order to take guns can be issued without the gun owner even knowing. And in Indiana, the state on which Dingell is basing her federal legislation, individuals who have their guns seized have approximately 14 days to go to court to 'make a case' to get them back."
"The Salt Lake Tribune summed up the Indiana law, 'In Indiana, law enforcement can confiscate weapons without a judge's order. The gun owner must ask the court to get the weapons returned.'"
We shouldn't have to say it folks but if the government can confiscate your property without warning or probable cause, that is the exact opposite of due process.
This proposal didn't come out of thin air. The far-left protests and lobbying efforts that evolved out of the Parkland shooting in Florida are taking their toll and even Republican legislators are cowering under their desks.
Let's be real folks, such a law will do little, if anything, to stop another school massacre, and that's not the intent of such a law anyway. Governments confiscate weapons for one reason and one reason alone.
Already, six states have so-called "red flag" laws on the books and 30 other states are considering such legislation.
And while these unconstitutional laws vary from state to state, what we're already seeing from states that have already passed these unconstitutional and tyrannical laws should alarm any red-blooded American.
Hammond again:
"Six states have enacted these laws. At their core, they allow the police to convene a Kafkaesque secret proceeding, in which an American can be stripped of his or her gun rights and Fourth Amendment rights... The first thing gun owners learn is when police knock on the door — ready to ransack their house and, if they resist, to arrest or even shoot them and their family.
"The standard is not whether there is probable cause to believe that the gun owner has committed a crime, as the Constitution would seem to require. Rather, the standard is some subjective determination about whether the owner represents some 'danger.'
"As in the film Minority Report, Americans are stripped of their fundamental constitutional rights based on the subjective possibility of a future crime."
This is no joke folks! For years, patriotic Americans have suspected that the federal government could, one day, move to confiscate the firearms of Americans citizens. Liberals laughed at you when you said it, but now, the horrendous truth as been laid bare for all to see.
They're actually coming for your guns and they must be stopped!
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