Wife visits doctor, husband's guns confiscated by police. No judge, no jury, no appeal. This is what happens when you let the government invent a list of "prohibited persons" who will no longer have inalienable rights.
Guns of Law-Abiding Husband Confiscated After Wife’s Single Voluntary Mental Health Visit
Guns of Law-Abiding Husband Confiscated After Wife’s Single Voluntary Mental Health Visit
Just last week, the California Senate approved a $24 million funding bill to expedite the process of collecting guns from owners in the state who legally acquired them but have since become disqualified due to felony convictions or mental illness.
Such was recently the case for one woman, who had been in the hospital voluntarily for mental illness last year that she says was due to medication she was taking. Lynette Phillips of Upland, Calif., told TheBlaze in a phone interview Monday she had purchased a gun years ago for her husband, David, as a present. That gun, as well as two others registered to her law-abiding husband (who does not have a history of felonies or mental illness), were seized last Tuesday.
“My husband is upset that they took the right from us that should never have been taken, Phillips told TheBlaze.
But according to the state of California, that doesn’t matter.