NY police seize veteran's guns after order deems him, wrongfully, as 'mentally defective'

[Grand Torino]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/16/ny-police-seize-veterans-guns-after-order-deems-him-wrongfully-as-mentally-defective.html

Don Hall and his girlfriend were sitting in their living room earlier this year when they noticed police lights flashing outside the couple’s upstate New York home.

When the 70-year-old Army veteran greeted Oneida County sheriff’s deputies he was given a document saying that Hall had to hand over his six guns – four long guns and two pistols -- to law enforcement because he had been deemed “mentally defective.”

The so-called SAFE Act, which was implemented in 2013 in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre in Connecticut, includes a provision that allows heath care providers to report patients that they think may be a risk to themselves or others.

In Hall’s case, however, the sheriff’s deputies were wrong. He hadn’t triggered an order under the SAFE Act.

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[bersaguy]

There are some states that have laws that make zero sense but they use them for their own control of people living in that state and then there are states that have laws to protect the people that live in said state from stuff just like this. I'm glad I live in this one and none of those listen in that report..................JMHO

[Ugly]

More proof that liberals shouldn't be in charge of ANYTHING!

They need to be held personally accountable. 

Meanwhile, I'd bet not a single criminal has been stopped except of course the left is making criminals so they would count those. The reality is they have the inability to see reality. 

[DaveTN]

Can’t this guy sue the county or whoever is reasonable for maintaining the database they are using? He had to have legal costs.

[xtriggerman]

 Many of the upstate counties like Oneida had Sheriffs that said they would not enforce the SAFE Act back when it was passed. Well, well.... look at what time can do to shortening memories!  To sue the county for a mistake of removing ones guns form their premises will be an expensive effort. Since there was never any Tort reform enacted, he can only sue for the initial cost's of getting his guns back. Only after that is settled in his favor, can he then open a new case for the associated cost of the initial court settlement. Very few attorneys handle firearm related cases regardless of innocence so the cost of retainer of one who will take the case will be no less than about 6K and to run its course more than likely another 5K to see it threw as long as its a slam dunk case like the guy in this post. To add insult to injury, The Police there have no obligation to return the firearms in the physical condition in which they were seized. I know for a fact that the NY SP uses simple steel lockers and steel drawer cabinets to lock the guns into. Talk about scratched up bluing and dinged up wood? A good chance the owners will get all that and no recourse.  70 year old Don Hall's biggest mistake was staying in NY to retire as a gun owner. Its mind blowing that a state of 50 thousand square miles can be so corruptly ruled by the idiots that live on 300 square miles with in its boarders. 

Edited August 18, 2017 by xtriggerman