Hundreds of gun owners in Florida have been ordered to give up their guns under a new law that took effect after the deadly Parkland shooting in February, according to a report published Monday.
The Risk Protection Order, signed by Florida Gov. Rick Scott just three weeks after a gunman killed 17 people at Stoneman Douglas, aims to temporarily remove weapons from gun owners who have been deemed by a judge to possibly be a threat to themselves or others.
Roughly 200 firearms have been confiscated in the state since the law was enacted, Sgt. Jason Schmittendorf, of the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, told WFTS-TV. “Around 30,000 rounds of ammunition” were also taken, he said.
A five-person team in the county that’s worked solely on the risk protection law reportedly has filed 64 risk protection petitions in court. Broward County, according to the news outlet, has filed 88 risk protection petitions since March.
“It’s a constitutional right to bear arms and when you are asking the court to deprive somebody of that right we need to make sure we are making good decisions, right decisions and the circumstances warrant it,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told the station in defense of the task force.
Every petition filed under the order in Pinellas County has so far been granted by the judge, according to the report.
The first gun seizure under the law occurred in April when Florida authorities confiscated an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle from an Army veteran.
Jerron Smith’s gun was seized when he refused to surrender it voluntarily, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office said at the time. The officers also seized a .22 caliber rifle he owned, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, a bump stock and numerous other weapon-related items.
In addition to confiscating guns, the law also raised the age to buy a rifle to 21 and established a three-day waiting period on gun purchases.
looks like a planned SQUEEZE between the horror of california and the stupid shit in florida………
GOT AMMO????????????????????
““It’s a constitutional right to bear arms and when you are asking the court to deprive somebody of that right we need to make sure we are making good decisions, right decisions and the circumstances warrant it,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri told the station in defense of the task force.”
My God! We better hear that this team and the enforcers are showing up dead sometime soon!
We don’t need gun control
We need government control.
And exactly WHO performed this these blatant violations of Rights on these Americans?
C’mon copsuckers, answer it, but clean yer damn mouth out before you speak.
Your “heroes” follow orders against US daily and we know where your loyalties lie. F’g torries.
I saw this and thought fine – These 450 people need to call some friends over and make a stand. 450 can soon be 4500. No way LEO in Florida can take on 4500 armed men and women in multiple locations. US Govt would have to call in the National Guard, and boy would that look bad on TV. US troops taking guns door to door. Right before the “election”.
You mean “US troops TRYING to collect guns door to door”…. RIGHT???
Just another step in the plan to get all weapons.
Now that it has been established as a precedent (law), it will slowly creep into other states before long. After that, anyone who even suspects that you have weapons (and that will mean ANY), will “snitch” on you to the law and you will loose your rights immediately by a judge who prescribes to the notion that money is better that human life (and most are).
Uncle Big Bad going to get us again?
They might take your f#@king gun, I tell you what, they are not taking my f#@king gun.
Considering the piss ass moaning whiny ‘oh no they are going to get us’ attitude I see way too often, how in the f#@k did the Empire of Great Britain, the mightiest army on the planet at the time, fail to take my great great great great great grandpappy’s gun?
Yeah, I guess they could take them if we are too big of pussies to f#@king shoot them when they try it.
What an institutionalized pack of pathetic cowards, if some pencil neck parasitic pedophilic prick in Washington DC or any state writes it down on a piece of paper, you are just going to tremble and hand it over, huh? Or maybe you don’t think you can whip their communist goons that we outnumber 10,000 to 1.
They ain’t going to take shit, even though there seems to be cowards all too prepared to just piss themselves and hand them over.
We are the largest armed force on planet Earth. The only way anybody gets our guns is if they have bread such pathetic cowardice into us, that we just hand them over and drop to our knees to accept our chains.
If the people in Florida don’t stand up for their rights, f#@k them, they don’t deserve their rights, and instead of turning in their guns, they need to stick the barrels in their mouths and pull the triggers.
I’m sick of listening to the f#@king cowardice from a small section of cowards who aren’t worth the powder it would take to blow their brains out.
I hope this clears it up for you.
whats coming is the american holodomore.
WHY THE HELL WOULD ANYBODY KNEEL FOR A BULLET?
YOU FLORIDIANS SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
HOW DO YOU FACE YOUR WIVES AND CHILDREN????
Bang
Rinse and repeat as necessary.
Or play the long game. Record the cops names an burn their houses down while they sleep.
School of Hark Knocks adds new course to its curriculum:
Kill The Inner Coward – A master course designed to heal the disease of cowardice and let surface the innate response to life known today as courage.
Course will be offered to and for all of humanity. See prerequisite here:
http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/bill-rights-common-law-explained/200821
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Ooops, I meant hard knocks. Damn typos!!
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Florida
Nuff said
y’all need to nut up