Vermont gun confiscation-bill a solution in search of a problem

Vermont Watchdog ^ | 5 May, 2014 | Bruce Parker

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After more than 30 years in law enforcement, Mark Donka says he can’t remember a single instance in which a firearm was involved in a domestic dispute.

And the statistics mirror Donka’s experience: gun crime is rare in Vermont.

But that hasn’t stopped an on-going effort in Montpelier to confiscate guns from alleged domestic abusers.

To hear the Vermont Network Against Domestic & Sexual Violence tell it, Vermont’s domestic violence problem has become so serious the time has come for police to confiscate weapons from alleged domestic abusers. The group is the chief proponent of H.735, a “must pass” fees bill that mandates the seizure and storage of guns and ammo in domestic abuse cases. On Friday the Senate easily passed H.735 by a vote of 21-6.

Donka is one of many observers questioning the controversial legislation.

[marktwain]

Minnesota just passed a bill that started out this way. The major thrust of the bill is to make sure the police confiscate the guns "temporarily" rather than allow them to be held by a third party. This can lead to "legal theft" of the guns as they become very difficult to get back if the police decide to throw administrative roadblocks in the way.

A common one "You can get them back when a court orders us to return them."

[marktwain]

Legalized Theft of Guns

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/11/legalized-theft-of-guns.html

[marktwain]

The Minnesota bill was amended to render it toothless. Third party storage was required to be offered, with time to do it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Gun grabbers never miss a chance to lie about guns in order to scare the legislature into “doing something” about the “epidemic” of gun violence.

[AlmaKing]

The temporary confiscation is already being done.

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA ) started this non-sense.

I have to look up the details after work.

An unintended consequence is that all weapons are removed from the house after a domestic incident, including those owned by the victim which essentially removes the right to self defense by a gun for the actual victim.

[Organic Panic]

Of course domestic abuse gun confiscation makes sense for gun grabbers. It is one crime which anyone can be accused of and a crime regardless of facts, a trial, or conviction. An accusation is all that is required by a jaded ex and you are guilty with zero recourse. Goodbye guns.