By Dennis Petrocelli, MD As the 2020 Virginia Legislative session draws to a close this week, it appears that a version of a “red flag” law (House version; Senate version) will be sent to Governor “Blackface” Northam for his signature. I thought I had exhausted my complaints about these laws previously, but Virginia’s Bloomberg-purchased Democrats made changes to the bill … Read more
Associated Press Colorado authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a woman accused of lying when she filed a petition seeking to take away the guns of a university police officer who killed her son. Susan Holmes of Fort Collins was being sought Friday on suspicion of first-degree perjury and attempt to influence a public … Read more
This is TTAG’s weekly roundup of legal and legislative news affecting guns, the gun business and gun owners’ rights. For a deeper dive into the topics discussed here, check out this week in gun rights at FPC. 2019’s NICS background check record On Monday the FBI announced that in 2019 it conducted 28,369,750 background checks via NICS … Read more
So because almost anyone a person knows can file for a gun grab in Colorado, judges will look more carefully at these requests than they do in other states. At least, that’s the theory. The Colorado legislature’s official fiscal analysis of that state’s new “red flag” law, which took effect this week, projects that police and “family … Read more
Failed presidential candidate Senator Gillibrand [D-NY] has a plan to address the problem of suicides by military members and encourage them to get the mental health treatment they need. Currently, the Department of Defense has a policy that requires mental health professionals to report many cases of mental health concerns of service members to a … Read more
You may have followed the situation that played out online and in Mahopac, New York on Saturday evening. Alexander Booth, a veteran who posts on Instagram as whiskey_warrior_556, put of video from his home as the Putnam County Sheriff and other police assembled outside his home. It wasn’t clear exactly what prompted the police response … Read more
Time and again laws already on the books could have or should have been used to stop (murderers) from obtaining weapons. From the Sandy Hook shooting to Parkland, Florida, to El Paso and Dayton, law enforcement either had the tools and did not use them to stop these shooters early or the background system worked and … Read more
Do you want an example of what’s wrong with red flag laws? This is what’s wrong with red flag laws. Stephen Nichols, an 84-year-old Korean War vet, retired cop and current school crossing guard is having lunch at the local diner with a friend. He talks about work and voices disapproval of his school’s resource … Read more
“They’re taking up a fight against me on something the Legislature has to do, and they think I have the authority not to follow the law. I do oppose this law. However, it’s my not my job to oppose a law; my job is to enforce the law.” That’s the position of Humboldt County Nevada … Read more
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