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“Red Flag” Gun Confiscation Orders in House Bill
Written by Aidan Johnston
Published: 21 September 2021
Congress is about to vote on red flag Gun Confiscation Orders (GCOs)!
GOA just discovered “Red Flag” GCOs for those subject to the United States Code
of Military Justice (UCMJ) in the 1,362 page 2022 National Defense
Authorization Act.
We need gun owners to demand their Representative and Senators oppose Gun
Confiscation Orders.
Like the proverbial camel’s nose in the tent, allowing this provision to remain
in a bill pertaining to the military will eventually work its way into
legislation applying to the rest of the population.
That’s why we need to raise our voices in unison against these gun confiscation
orders.
GOA raised the alarm and defeated similar language last year.
In conference, GOA insisted on the elimination of gun confiscation orders and,
in the end, gun owners won.
But now, gun control is back in the authorization for the 2022 NDAA. So please,
contact your Representative and Senators urge them to VOTE NO on H.R. 4350.
Specifically, GOA is opposed to SEC. 529 of H.R. 4350 entitled Authority of
Military Judges and Military Magistrates to Issue Military Court Protective
Orders.
This language would create a Military Court GCO program—a disgusting violation
of the Second, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights of our armed
service personnel who offer their lives to defend those same constitutional
rights every day.
These proposed Military Court Gun Confiscation Orders could be “issued on an ex
parte basis” and therefore would “restrain a person from possessing, receiving,
or otherwise accessing a firearm” without constitutional Due Process (SEC.
529’s proposed §1567b(j)(1)(A)).
In fact, the emergency Military Court GCOs are explicitly exempted from the
“Protection of Due Process” provided for in SEC. 529’s proposed §1567b(h)(1).
Again, this is just the foot in the door. If Nancy Pelosi gets this into the
military code, then it becomes the “precedent” for enforcing gun confiscation
against the rest of the population.
So please contact your Representative and Senators in only a few clicks with
GOA’s TAKE ACTION tool to oppose this gun control!
Seizing firearms first and “getting the Due Process later” will never
constitute sufficient Due Process, no matter how much anti-gunners may pretend
it does.
That’s why Gun Owners of America strongly opposes H.R. 4350’s gun control, and
we need our two million members and activists to help deliver this message on
Capitol Hill, as well.
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