This is insane.
According to recent a Detroit News report, Michigan’s “Red Flag” gun confiscation law is being used to red-flag children as young as six years old.
Yes, you read that right. The law is being used to “Red Flag” children.
Now, someone might ask “How can a six year old have red-flagged and have his guns confiscated?”
The answer: He doesn’t.
Michigan’s “Red Flag” law allows government agents to seize the legally-owned firearms of anyone who happens to live with the individual being red-flagged.
So, essentially these are household “Red Flag” gun confiscation orders.
There are SERIOUS legal and moral issues with this.
Michigan Democrats insist that this is a feature, not a bug, of Michigan’s radical gun confiscation law.
Radical anti-gun State Senator Mallory McMorrow, who is hoping to be a U.S. Senator, said that “That aspect, particularly related to juveniles, was something we were very intentional about and sets Michigan’s law apart from other states.”
But the law completely runs roughshod over the right to due process of anyone who lives in the home of a child that has been red-flagged.”
Their due process is completely denied in the process of their legally-owned firearms arms being confiscated.
In an example out of Alger County (in the U.P.) an eight year old was subjected to a “Red Flag” order whose mother then had all of her firearms confiscated, despite the fact that the firearms were locked up.
People are having their guns confiscated who aren’t even the subject of the “Red Flag” order.
This is wrong on so many levels and is why Michigan’s “Red Flag” law should be repealed and why we are support Rep. DeSana’s bills to do just that, House Bill 4138-4140.
I’m also talking with a Second Amendment attorney on what the next steps look like on the judicial side in the fight to get this draconian law struck down.
I’ll be sure to keep you posted on any updates, but the insanity of this law is just now coming to the service.
We warned about the dangers of “Red Flag” gun confiscation and how it would be abused, but we our concerns were brushed aside or outright ignored.
Here’s hoping as more light is shed on the situation, we can get this law thrown to the trash bin of history.
Stay tuned and stay vigilant.