“”The District Attorney’s office released the following statement:
“The Burleson County Sheriff’s Office would not have been there that day if Mr. Magee had not decided to live a lifestyle of doing and producing illegal drugs in his home. Therefore, we will fully prosecute the drug charges against him.”
Whitehead said police are increasingly using no-knock raids to deliver arrest warrants for nonviolent crimes such as drug possession simply because the homeowner is a licensed gun owner.
In asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of Quinn v. State of Texas, Whitehead’s legal team argued that making lawful gun ownership the sole grounds for a no-knock warrant improperly penalizes and limits the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The court refused last year to hear the case.””
This could get interesting.
According to the article, the guy had 4 legal guns, three in a safe and one in his hands. Even in Texas, criminal background checks are required to purchase a gun. Does this mean the police would have knopwn that he had the legal guns? Does anyone from Texas know the answer to that question?
My point is that if they knew he had legal guns, wouldn't that be just as scary (from a no-knock perspective) as if he had illegal guns?
So why not mention the real legal guns instead of merely speculating about illegal guns?
Could it be that legal guns can't support a no knock warrant in Texas but illegal ones can?
Any Texas lawyer know the answer to that question?