30 year PD officer, Red Flagged, sort of

[Robin]

First hand recollection?

It was a hell of a ride and the mulled cider after we kicked ass was delicious.
Two if by Robin

 

[spat]

I don’t recall the part of the Paul Revere story where he busted through Red Coats massed on his front steps, but I could be wrong. Link?

The part of the story where the government went to serve a red flag order on the colonists in Concord to confiscate their military style weapons.

But details leaked and people came together Bundy ranch style and killed a bunch of the British law enforcement officers at Lexington green. More Patriots showed up at Concord and the British were forced to turn around and abandon their attempt to enforce the red flag law ?

It's true, Paul Revere didn't bust out of his house when surrounded by British. They were much smarter than that. They found out that the red flag order was going down, and the ambushed the officers on the way.

Paul Revere found out that his buddies Samuel Adams and John Hancock were getting a red flag order served on them, and he rallied a group of Patriots to kill the officers trying to serve that order.

Imagine how *that* would go down today. Some sort of Ruby Ridge style seige, A Bundy ranch style militia showing up and slaughtering the officers conducting the seige ? Or maybe an officer who takes his oath to the constitution seriously and leaks the details of the raid to the next Paul Revere, and the SWAT team in their MRAP gets ambushed with IEDs on their way to execute the raid ?

 

[Airborneguy]

Totally different scenario, and exactly the point I was making. One man receiving a knock on his door would be very stupid to shoot it out.

 

[spat]

Totally different scenario, and exactly the point I was making. One man receiving a knock on his door would be very stupid to shoot it out.

Agreed there, better to give them what's in the safe, then dig up the ones in the back yard once they leave.....

 

[M_F]

Ditto on RBean's efforts! I have been through the exact scenario you list here, - the cops were called to my home; my gun taken temporarily, but returned at the end of the call; no charges all around, but days later the (now disgraced and former) OPPD Chief wrote a letter demanding my NY CCW be revoked. It was suspended, and I had to hire a lawyer and go to NY Supreme Court to get it ordered reinstated, and then got jerked around by the ECPPO and the OPPD to get my permit card returned, and later to get my guns returned to me.

NY doesn't actually need a Red Flag law (although we now have one...) They can just use the existing Penal Law to pull your firearms, - and then you have to go to court and fight to get them returned to you. The Red lag law just makes it even easier for them.

I believe this will continue to happen until NY's May Issue scheme is outlawed and changed to Shall Issue.

NY’s red flag law just makes it easier to disarm those that don’t have pistol permits, but own rifles & shotguns.