Nancy Pelosi and Andrew Cuomo signed the “Red Flag Bill” this week, allowing authorities to confiscate guns from certain citizens.
The law, which will come into effect in 180 days, demolishes the Second Amendment rights for law abiding citizens deemed an “extreme risk” by authorities.
Pelosi (D-CA) praised the New York Governor for “leading the way by passing the Red Flag Bill & providing an example of the commonsense solutions.”
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American families deserve to see bold action to prevent gun violence. Thanks to @NYGovCuomo & the New York State Legislature for leading the way by passing the Red Flag Bill & providing an example of the commonsense solutions that will save lives! https://t.co/4HcMLI1h3D
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) February 26, 2019
Buffalonews.com reports: The Legislature overwhelmingly passed the measure, along with other gun control initiatives, in late January. The other bills – including changes to the gun purchase background check process, bans on bump stock devices and from teachers being able to possess weapons on school grounds – have not yet been acted upon by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo.
The red flag law “will save lives and doesn’t infringe on anyone’s rights,” Cuomo said Monday in New York City.
Cuomo was joined at a signing ceremony for the red flag bill by U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as well as various gun control advocates, including Linda Beigel Schulman, a Long Island woman whose son, slain schoolteacher Scott Beigel, was among the students and staff killed last year at Florida’s Parkland school mass shooting.
“This gun violence issue is a national health epidemic in our country. And Mr. President, if you want to talk about emergencies, this is an emergency,” Pelosi said. The House in Washington is advancing gun control measures later this week, she said.
The legislation was subject to intense debate from gun rights advocates in the Legislature when it passed in January. Among the complaints is the difficulty – and financial expense – individuals will have in trying to get their guns returned if or when they are no longer deemed a threat.
Under the new law, school officials, family members and police can apply to the courts to get a “temporary extreme risk protection order” against an individual. If initially approved by a judge, the individual would be banned from buying, possessing or attempting to buy firearms for up to six days. During that time, a hearing would have to be held on extending the length of the order up to one year. It permits police to confiscate any weapons possessed by the individual.
Tom King, executive director of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association and a board member of the National Rifle Association, last month called the gun control package approved by the Legislature “a massive assault” on Second Amendment rights.
“I don’t want mentally challenged individuals getting a firearm, but this red flag law lacks any sense of due process,” King said when the bill passed.
The authors of the bill, however, say there are ample protections built into the law to protect due process of gun owners and buyers.
“Family and household members are often the first to know when someone is experiencing a crisis or exhibiting dangerous behavior. They may even report their fears to law enforcement, but in New York, as in many other states, law enforcement officers may not have the authority to intervene based on the evidence they are provided, sometimes resulting in preventable tragedies, including interpersonal gun violence or suicide involving a gun,” states a legislative memo in support of the legislation.
California enacted a similar law five years ago.
New York in 2013 enacted the SAFE Act gun control law. Its provisions included a requirement that mental health professionals report on individuals they consider a threat to themselves or others. Cuomo on Monday said the names of 130,000 people have been placed in that mental health database since the SAFE Act was enacted into law and who have been prevented from buying or possessing a gun.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
This unConstitutional piece of rubbish is definitely going to SCOTUS!
What part of SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED don’t they get
Too late to save one part of the constitution when they’ve been openly breaking numerous parts of it for many decades. 2Hat you gonna do now? Lol smh
I really do hate the MF’ing communists. This will only lead to them taking more and more, like a death by a thousand cuts.
This is how the NAZIS got started… Democrats and Nazis are Identical Twins… Democrats are the Enemy of America. Civil War has begun and the Democrats are the Enemy.
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Hopefully 63 Million Trump supporters will do to California & New York what they did to the NFL & Hollywood Box Office.. Time to Boycott Everything from New York & California. From (SNL) to the Oscar’s, Hollywood & BoxOffice to Fruits, Almonds to WalNuts to Wine Country.. Keep your $$$$ Out of those 2 States and lets see the Chickens of Liberalism come home to Roost….
Talk about Mentally Challenged, The 2 Progressively Communist Nazi’s that are pushing that Bill.. Who Started a Regester the a Ban and Collection to protect the Precious Children the Original Progressive Socialist Adolf Hitler.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ed9b95e7ebec9b4ad3ad4e10a84b2d48edb16f08ba045e6a3e4cf00ad7c3b46d.jpg
Let’s not participate in the evil of re-writing history… The Nazi party was Fascist. FACT.
Please kyke, the promise of the Jew religion to the Jew people is the subjugation of the non-Jew. Our rights are being taken away because of Jews and Judaism. Jews want all non-Jews as their slaves and disarming the public is part of the Jew plan, to enslave the non-Jew. Like in Germany kyke.
They really do want to start a civil war. Their arrogance will be the end of them.
If anyone was willing to fight – it would’ve hapenned many times already. There’s no civil war coming. Relax
How could Pelosi be a signatory to a New York state bill? She has no standing as a legislator or signatory except in a ‘federal’ situation. Fake headline.
Why would Pelosi be signing a New York law when she is a representative from California?
Pelosi is a representative of the Jews and Jew power. NYC is the capital of Jew power.
Petition for Return of Government to Our Constitutional Principles…
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As a combat wounded veteran, and patriotic citizen, with unwavering faith in our Creator, Whose divine hand guided our founding fathers in composing the United States Constitution, I acknowledge that many in current leadership are willfully violating their Constitutional obligations or are complicit in the actions of others infringing the Rights of the People, including, but not limited to, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, right to bear arms, free and fair elections, right to counsel and due process of law.
Under the rights implicit in our People, as stipulated in the First Amendment, I hereby demand immediate Restoration of our Government under its intended Constitutional Principles, rule of law, freedom and personal liberty, and a return to government “of the people, for the people, by the people”, free of despotic and tyrannical leadership OF AND BY, “‘NANCY PELOSI,, AND CHUCK SHUMER OF THE 116TH CONGRESS”,
The “BLANK CHECK”, I issued to OUR REPUBLIC, My America,, back in 1962, that provided the possible… LOSS of My Life, …In “Defense of the Freedoms as provided by Our constitution and Our Rule of Law”, …”IS STILL NEGOTIABLE”, …even though it may be CASHED ..WITH -IN …the Domestic Borders of The Land of the FREE, Because of The BRAVE. …PERIOD.
“No Mission To Difficult, No Sacrifice To Great, DUTY FIRST., to Our ONE NATION UNDER GOD …PERIOD.