@Right_in_Virginia
Fair enough... what I don't like about the red flag laws is it makes it hard for a poor person to defend himself (no lawyers are provided if you want to contest it).... Seems about 2/3rds of folks support it (if polls are to be believed), I don't because I figure there is already laws against threatening gun violence (laws already on the books), plus how it can be used as a tool for a corrupt government. But the subject is one I will place DeSantis on equal footing with Trump (not counting the other things Trump has done/said).
Expanding on that, unscrupulous local level enforcement could target valuable gun collections and collectors over an offhand remark, and literally steal their stuff. By the time (as in when and if) the person is able to get their firearms back, it is likely the most choice and valuable ones will have gone missing.
In my lifetime I have had four firearms go missing. I know who got two of them, and he has been told through a third party to never be within line of sight of my house--and I haven't seen him since. Good riddance to bad trash. I liked them, but they were not particularly dear to me.
One was in the custody of the FBI (they ran a check on it with the dealer, I was informed, and by God, it
was missing, so I reported it. It had been in a fairly secure, out of the way but unlocked location, so the thief had had time to scout it out with no one else home). I have a couple of suspects, but can't prove it. The other was recovered and returned by local police. The FBI never contacted me. It was NIB.
One was reported and recovered within 18 hours, but it took over a month to get it back from police, which I did. I still have that one.
I have read horror stories of valuable high end rifles (Weatherbys, etc) being piled together like firewood, and if returned, they were damaged far beyond any wear and tear the owner would have inflicted in their lifetime, so I have little faith that any arms confiscated under some red flag law will be treated any better unless one of those grabbing them has their eye on that particular gun.
Considering there are those in these parts (and elsewhere) with extensive collections of historical arms or former military rifles, arsenal correct, or both, I shudder to think of the abuse possible, and that doesn't include modern sporting rifles with high end optics (which can cost more than the firearm and are likely to be damaged or go missing as well).