Red Flag Laws are the “door to door confiscation your mother (and I) warned you about.

In states all over the country, red and blue, led by both Republicans and Democrats and supported by voters of both parties, we have seen the proliferation of so-called “Red Flag Laws” (RFL). What are these laws exactly?

They allow the advance confiscation of firearms from a persons property based on little more (or in most cases nothing more) than someone, ANYONE, reporting to “authorities” that the person may have said, done or otherwise indicated at some point in time that they might be a danger to themselves or someone else at some point in time in the future. The law enforcement is able to go and  forcibly confiscate all firearms from that person.

Due process comes later. That’s the problem with the laws. You can have your guns taken away and be forced to undertake a lengthy and costly legal journey in order to get them back, all because someone accused you of being dangerous. They don’t have to have proof. They just need the “authorities” to believe them enough to do it.

Obviously the legal process of getting your guns back is the punishment in itself. That’s the whole point.

I’ve had voters from both parties (since apparently we’ve only got two parties) tell me they support these laws. I had a Republican Congressman tell me to my face that he supports them. Obviously the Democrats do.

If you have ever been to my blog even once you’re probably well aware of the general concern in what I’ll call “right wing circles” of a widespread, door-to-door firearm confiscation. The dreams of how that will take place vary widely from tongue to tongue but for all intents and purposes, it’s assumed that the Feds would love it if one day they were able to achieve Feinstein’s plan to have “Mr. and Mrs. America turn ‘em all in”, or Hillary’s implementation of “Australian-style gun control”.

With that understood by the 130 or so readers I have passing through here per day, thank you all very much, I’m sure you can all see how these RFL are the confiscation we’ve been warned about all along. RFL allow the state to use ANY reason they desire to go to your home, enter it and take your firearms away from you.

Make an angry, politically-charged Facebook post? A RFL can and has been used to confiscate someone’s guns.

Make a Twitter post that “authorities” interpret as being Islamophohic? A RFL can and has been used to confiscate someone’s guns.

You get in an argument with your woman and piss her off? A RFL can and has been used to confiscate someone’s guns.

Spare me the talking points on the legal limits of RFL at the present time. All they needed to do is get the laws into place. Rest assured they will be administratively and bureaucratically tweaked and adjusted so that it gets EASIER for the Oakleys to kick your door in and HARDER and MORE EXPENSIVE for you to get your guns back.

RFL are the tool that’ll be used to get guns away from anyone and everyone that they don’t want to have them.

All the talk that’s been had in your group about being quiet about your guns... Put that into action now. Ditch the NRA stickers, stop the good old boys gun discussions down at the local watering hole, remove the vanity pics from Facebook (why do you still have FB?). No one needs to know about your guns if they don’t live in your house.

Please reference this post, and put it into action. All of it. It won’t be easy, but it’s time now. The legal framework for taking your guns away simply for being a wrong thinker is in place. The local Kommissar has his eyes open and the Oakleys will be knocking on your door when they get the order.

Bill Buppert on being gray with your guns.

We all like to talk about being the “Gray Man” and keeping ourselves under the radar. The time to tighten down heavily is upon us, and if you’re not being gray with your guns, then you’re not being gray at all.

Please take what Bill Buppert has to say on the subject and implement it.

My thoughts and agreements:

1. This is likely to be the hardest one for me and for many others. Even Mr. Buppert admits to having to remind himself frequently. For anyone who grew up in gun culture, this is tantamount to giving up a habit, like smoking (no, I don’t smoke, but you get the point). It’ll be a conscious effort and your ego may have to take a backseat on occasion.

2. This may also be hard, especially if you’ve got a large amount of guns, or ammo or other paraphernalia. It’s not easy to keep it all away from view, but as the post says, maybe distribute it all around. Could include some outlying caches. See? Being gray isn’t so boring if you get to have a “cache”.

3. This shouldn’t be that difficult if your ego is mature. Be aware of non-gun related paraphernalia that could still tip people off. I usually wear a multicam ball cap. That alone might be enough to flag me.

4. Don’t be an ass.

5. Don’t act like a woman.

6. Anyone you invite into your house is either very close to you on a personal level, or they are casing the place. That’s it. One or the other. Just because they’re not (always) casing it for burglary, doesn’t mean they’re not casing it.

7. See part 1 above.

8. A lot of the gun publications these days are crap anyways. I wish Mel Tappan’s old column was more easily found.

9. I too am a fan of open carry (OC) and I will debate you on that issue if you are inclined (and there I am breaking rule number one). However, OC is obviously not gray. That I won’t disagree with. What I will debate anyone on is the merits of OC in some situations. Sometimes OC is a good thing.

From Mountain Guerrilla: EDC

We all love us some good talk about everyday carry (EDC) loads. Please read and heed what John Mosby has to say about it at Mountain Guerrilla.

Nous defions, indeed.