Old Nuremberg Trials and New
Mandatory Gun Confiscation

I‘ve met lots of police officers who said they would never go door-to-door and confiscate guns. I‘ve also met officers who would. Seizing someone‘s property is a slippery slope, and the edge is closer than we might think. Several Democrat presidential candidates already called for gun-confiscation. Unfortunately, none of the other Democrat candidates denounced it. Consider how gun confiscation plays out from the police officer‘s perspective. Some states have gun-confiscation laws in place already.

He is a “danger to himself or others,” or so the officers were told. Of course, that wasn‘t exactly what the complaint said, and that isn‘t really what the judge ruled. There are lots of little lies that grow as the story was passed from the estranged wife, to the divorce lawyer, to the prosecutor, to the judge. Now the confiscation order is passed down to the lieutenant and finally to the policeman.

That is how SWAT teams ends up at someone‘s door in the middle of the night. That is the reality of an “Extreme Risk Protection Order” (ERPO). ........