Monday, July 31, 2017

Law Enforcement Wrongfully Confiscates New York Veteran’s Guns

Via Herschel

http://media.advance.net/newyorkupstatecom_national_desk_blog/photo/2017/07/29/2017-07-21-emb-donhall-3jpg-1dda7c192e5fe508.jpg

Don Hall was sitting in his living room watching TV with his girlfriend about 9:30 p.m. earlier this year when he was startled by flashing police car lights in his driveway.

Hall met the Oneida County sheriff’s deputies in the driveway, worried that they were bringing bad news about a family member.

Instead, the deputies produced an official document demanding that Hall, a 70-year-old Vietnam veteran who is a retired pipefitter, turn over his guns to them on the spot. On the document Hall said he was described as “mentally defective.”

When Hall told police he’d never had any mental issues, Hall said, deputies told him he must have done something that triggered the order under the New York state’s SAFE Act.

The deputies left that night with six guns – two handguns and four long guns.

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