Safe act mistake Don Hall, of Taberg, NY had guns seized

[livingston]

Veteran Describes How New York’s SAFE Act Wrongly Stole His Gun Rights
70-year-old Vietnam veteran Don Hall was shocked when deputies arrived at his Taberg, NY home one night to take his guns after he had wrongly been flagged “mentally defective”.

In an interview with Syracuse.com, Hall talks about his fight to figure out what went wrong, how authorities had the wrong man and what it took to get his guns back.
Vietnam Veteran: New York SAFE Act Took Away my Gun Rights - AND IT WAS WRONG!

 

[livingston]

Deputies confiscate a CNY veteran's guns. They were wrong. What happened?

 

[livingston]

Hall hired a lawyer and secured affidavits from local hospitals to prove he hadn’t been recently treated – the only time he had been a patient at any of the hospitals was four years ago at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for a sleep apnea test.

At St. Elizabeth’s, Hall said a clerk looked up his name and read him a Social Security number. He said it was slightly different than his. “She turned white as a ghost,” Hall recalled.

St. Elizabeth Hospital in Utica has no knowledge of the misidentification error that Hall believes happened, according to Caitlin McCann, a spokeswoman for the Mohawk Valley Health System.

Armed with the information from the hospitals, Panzone wrote to Oneida County Judge Michael Dwyer who ruled Hall should have his firearms returned to him in April. At first, Hall was told he could only have his pistols and his long rifles were going to be turned over to a gun shop. But almost immediately, he got a call saying he could have all his firearms back.

Eventually, his lawyer convinced a judge that authorities had him confused with someone else who had sought care and that his weapons should never have been seized.

 

[Drinkthekoolaid]

Due process? What's that?

 

[Doc8404]

Of course St E's won't admit it.
As bad as the cops.

 

[rsmitty]

St. E's is a joke.

 

[Acer-m14]

hope he sues FUAC for every civil rights violation he can ..

 

[Koz]

Better safe than sorry when trying to protect our streets from these dangerous, tv watching, 70 year old war heroes. I'm sure the cops did it for the children.

Has FUac scheduled a personal public apology for Mr. Hall or an appointment to review HIS mental health to run the state for that matter?

 

[Burzum]

I am going to get shot for this but SHAME in those mindless, Pinkerton, a-hole deputies for doing Cuomo's bidding.

Did they get a big hard-on stealing a veteran's lawful property with a wrongly invoked and unlawful state law?

Did they get all excited being Cuomo's brownshirts?

 

[dubleuhb]

I am going to get shot for this but SHAME in those mindless, Pinkerton, a-hole deputies for doing Cuomo's bidding.

Did they get a big hard-on stealing a veteran's lawful property with a wrongly invoked and unlawful state law?

Did they get all excited being Cuomo's brownshirts?

Most likely, fist bumps and donuts all around.