Author Topic: Virginia Red Flag Law  (Read 603 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline EdinVA

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,584
  • Gender: Male
Virginia Red Flag Law
« on: January 22, 2020, 12:26:20 pm »
This is not an article so if it needs to be moved, have at it... :)
The Virginia state Senate votes on SB240 soon, maybe today. 


Quote
SB  240 Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk of injury to himself, etc., penalties.  SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:Firearms; removal from persons posing substantial risk; penalties. Creates a procedure by which any attorney for the Commonwealth or any law-enforcement officer may apply to a general district court, circuit court, or juvenile and domestic relations district court judge or magistrate for an emergency substantial risk order to prohibit a person who poses a substantial risk of injury to himself or others from purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm. If an emergency substantial risk order is issued, a judge or magistrate may issue a search warrant to remove firearms from such person. An emergency substantial risk order shall expire on the fourteenth day following issuance of the order. The bill requires a court hearing in the circuit court for the jurisdiction where the order was issued within 14 days from issuance of an emergency substantial risk order to determine whether a substantial risk order should be issued. Seized firearms shall be retained by a law-enforcement agency for the duration of an emergency substantial risk order or a substantial risk order or, for a substantial risk order and with court approval, may be transferred to a third party 21 years of age or older chosen by the person from whom they were seized. The bill allows the complainant of the original warrant to file a motion for a hearing to extend the substantial risk order prior to its expiration. The court may extend the substantial risk order for a period not longer than 180 days. The bill provides that persons who are subject to a substantial risk order, until such order has been dissolved by a court, are guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor for purchasing, possessing, or transporting a firearm; are disqualified from having a concealed handgun permit; and may not be employed by a licensed firearms dealer. The bill also provides that a person who transfers a firearm to a person he knows has been served with a warrant or who is the subject of a substantial risk order is guilty of a Class 4 felony. The bill creates a computerized substantial risk order registry for the entry of orders issued pursuant to provisions in the bill.

http://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+SB240

Online Elderberry

  • TBR Contributor
  • *****
  • Posts: 24,278
Re: Virginia Red Flag Law
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2020, 02:14:50 am »
Virginia Senate passes ‘red flag’ gun confiscation bill; advances to House

American Military News by  Laura Widener 1/22/2020

https://americanmilitarynews.com/2020/01/virginia-senate-passes-red-flag-gun-confiscation-laws-bill-moves-to-house/

Quote
The Virginia state Senate passed a “red flag” gun confiscation bill on Wednesday afternoon – the latest of several gun bills at the helm of the Democratic legislature’s agenda.

After nearly an hour of final debates, state senators passed SB 240 in a vote of 21-19, and will now advance to the House, where it is also expected to pass the Democrat-controlled body.

If passed, authorities would be granted the power to confiscate guns from citizens deemed a danger to themselves or others.


Offline Smokin Joe

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 56,397
  • I was a "conspiracy theorist". Now I'm just right.
Re: Virginia Red Flag Law
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2020, 03:29:14 am »
So who does the "deeming", what constitutes "substantial risk", will a bad day have people on your doorstep to take your stuff? Etc.

Still an illegal taking, an infringement of a fundamental Civil Right, and removal of property constituting an illegal taking, in the absence of due process and conviction of a crime.
How God must weep at humans' folly! Stand fast! God knows what he is doing!
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

C S Lewis

Offline PeteS in CA

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 19,024
Re: Virginia Red Flag Law
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2020, 02:38:29 pm »
Can annoymorous stranger from a Western state file online for "an emergency substantial risk order" against every legislator who voted for it? Asking for a friend ...
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

Online oldno7

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 122
Re: Virginia Red Flag Law
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2020, 06:11:28 pm »
And anyone who's face is recognized at the rally is now deemed a "substantial risk"