Washington: Bloomberg-backed gun confiscation initiative goes into effect
A full 70 percent of Washington’s voters last month approved the gun control measure which was extremely popular along the deep-blue I-5 corridor and less so in the rest of the state (Photo: Alliance for Gun Responsibility)
A ballot referendum to establish Extreme Risk Protection Orders approved by voters in Washington state after a $4 million campaign by gun control advocates took effect Thursday.
The lengthy 21-page initiative, I-1491, will allow a family member to file a petition with the court for a judge to decide if a subject poses a threat to themselves or others. This could lead to an order prohibiting firearms possession for up to one year, and could be renewed annually. The subject of the order can request a hearing once a year to rescind the order while those filing false petitions would set themselves up for a criminal penalty.
A full 70 percent of voters who turned out in November’s general election approved the measure. California, Connecticut, and Indiana have similar laws in place.
The new law had the strong backing of national gun control advocates, funded in large part by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown group, supported by former Arizona lawmaker Gabrielle Giffords, and bolstered by research from the Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence — the sister organization to the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence — both of which are helmed by Josh Horwitz as executive director.
Horwitz’s group argues laws that quickly remove guns from individuals thought at risk can help curb suicides.
“Thousands of people would be alive today had they not had easy access to a gun while in crisis,” said Horwitz in an email to Guns.com on Thursday. “We look forward to expanding this life-saving tool to other states in the coming year,” added Horwitz, saying that no less than 11 states are looking at similar legislation including Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Still, gun rights advocates are not buying it and argue the law falls short constitutionally.
Alan Gottlieb, executive director of the Second Amendment Foundation, is also co-chair of the Washington State Safer Homes Firearms Subcommittee on Suicide Prevention and has helped craft legislation to help drop the number of suicides through a partnership of pharmacies and gun dealers. The program will establish a task force and develop materials and training to spot signs of someone at peril from what they term the “nation’s most preventable form of death” in a state where the suicide rate is 14 percent higher than the national average, and is the eighth leading cause of death among Washingtonians.
“I can say that the reason suicides will decrease is because of our education program authorized by the legislature,” Gottlieb told Guns.com, going on to add that the Extreme Risk Protection Order scheme “will have no effect except to deny due process protection to the people of our state.”
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DICK ACT of 1902 . . . CAN’T BE REPEALED (GUN CONTROL FORBIDDEN) THE TRUMP CARD ENACTED BY CONGRESS FURTHER ASSERTING THE SECOND AMENDMENT AS UNTOUCHABLE
NOVEMBER 29, 2016
The Dick Act of 1902 also known as the Efficiency of Militia Bill H.R. 11654, of June 28, 1902 invalidates all so-called gun-control laws. It also divides the militia into three distinct and separate entities.
The three classes H.R. 11654 provides for are the organized militia, henceforth known as the National Guard of the State, Territory and District of Columbia, the unorganized militia and the regular army. The militia encompasses every able-bodied male between the ages of 18 and 45. All members of the unorganized militia have the absolute personal right and 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms of any type, and as many as they can afford to buy.
The Dick Act of 1902 cannot be repealed; to do so would violate bills of attainder and ex post facto laws which would be yet another gross violation of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The President of the United States has zero authority without violating the Constitution to call the National Guard to serve outside of their State borders.
The National Guard Militia can only be required by the National Government for limited purposes specified in the Constitution (to uphold the laws of the Union; to suppress insurrection and repel invasion). These are the only purposes for which the General Government can call upon the National Guard.
Attorney General Wickersham advised President Taft, “the Organized Militia (the National Guard) can not be employed for offensive warfare outside the limits of the United States.”
http://www.fourwinds10.net/siterun_data/government/us_constitution/gun_control/news.php?q=1237163642