The 2021 legislative session will be here before you know it, and you and I have to be ready to FIGHT to stop ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure Orders’ from becoming law in Minnesota.
The Leftist media, Governor Walz and Speaker of the House Melissa Hortman’s are desperate to ram this gun control into law the moment session kicks off on January 3rd.
And with Senator Ron Latz once again teaming up with Representative Dave Pinto to introduce this Bloomberg backed gun-grab, we need every gun owner in this state to STAND and FIGHT with Minnesota Gun Rights!
That’s why I hope you’ll take a moment to sign the petition that I’ve prepared for you, demanding that Minnesota lawmakers kill this bill before it gets rammed through! More on that below.
If enacted, ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure Orders’ would allow virtually anyone to make a claim that you are a danger to yourself or someone else and ask a judge to order you stripped of your firearms.
The amount of room for abuse in this process should have every gun owner in Minnesota alarmed. Consider the following:
>>> These gun seizure orders will be issued before you have been convicted, or even charged, with anything!
A gun owner with absolutely no criminal background of any kind can have his firearms seized before he ever sets foot in a courtroom. You would have more due process rights in traffic court than you would in defending your constitutional right to keep and bear arms.
>>> The hearing that determines whether or not to strip you of your firearms happen in secret!
Known as ex-parte proceedings, these hearings take place in your absence. You will have no ability to question your accuser, provide your own evidence, or testify in your own defense. In fact, the first time you will be made aware of this is when law enforcement officers come to your home to seize your firearms.
>>> The mere fact that you recently purchased a firearm or any ammunition constitutes evidence that can be used against you!
In many drafted Red Flags bills, under the list of ‘evidence’ that the court can consider in deciding to disarm you is the ‘recent acquisition of a firearm, ammunition, or other weapons.’ So just buying a firearm or a box of .22’s could be enough for a judge to order you stripped of your firearms.
Every gun owner in the state knows someone who has gone through a bad divorce; maybe you’ve gone through that misery yourself.
Can you imagine what an angry ex-spouse could do to you if Minnesota enacts this legislation? How about a neighbor who doesn’t like your Trump bumper sticker?
The risk to gun owners is ENDLESS!
And once your guns are seized, you’ll be spending weeks and thousands of dollars in court in attorney’s fees to try to get them back.
Some will claim that these “red flag” seizures laws will help law enforcement stop madmen before they can carry out a shooting.
But that is a cheap political talking point, designed to brow beat gun owners like you and me into giving up and not fighting this bill.
Just consider the facts.
Under current law, those who tell others of their intent to kill can be arrested for making threats if law enforcement is ever informed.
Those who are exhibiting “warning signs” that they may be planning violence, can — at minimum — be interviewed by law enforcement who can move to arrest the person if needed.
As anyone in law enforcement will tell you, you can tell A LOT about a person’s intentions with the answers to just a couple questions.
But they’ll also tell you that no gun control law on the books will ever do a lick of good if law enforcement fails to do its job — like we saw at Parkland, Florida earlier this year.
Gun-grabbers know all of this, but they don’t care.
Their goal is to completely ELIMINATE due process to effectively enable bureaucrats to decide who gets guns and who doesn’t.
The truth is, many candidates for the State House and Senate flat-out REFUSED to answer the Minnesota Gun Rights’ Candidate Survey earlier this year because they support so-called ‘Red Flag Gun Seizure Orders,” and didn’t want to go on the record about it.
So with the 2021 session just a few weeks away, my goal is to generate a MOUNTAIN of petitions in opposition to this legislation before the legislature gavels back into session!
But I need your help!
First, please sign the petition that we’ve prepared and submit it back to us right away. This will make sure that your legislators know where you stand on this important issue.
Second, please agree to your most generous contribution so that we can get the word out to as many gun owners as possible about this and get them involved!
Your generosity will help us crank up the heat now, in the critical weeks ahead of session.
Don’t think that just because the legislature hasn’t gaveled in for the year that we can sit back and relax — we can’t!
You saw the election results.
With Tim Walz supporting this legislations Governor, an anti-gun Democrat majority still in the House and a WEAK Senate that is always looking looking to make a deal, our gun rights have NEVER been more in danger.
That’s why I’m counting on your IMMEDIATE action and financial support.
I know I’ve asked a lot of you this year. But nothing short of the future of our Second Amendment rights is at stake.
Please give as generously as you can, even $250 or $500 if possible!
I know that’s a lot to ask for. It may or may not be a big stretch for you right now.
But this legislation is spreading like wild fire in ‘red states’ and ‘blue states’ all over the country!
So if $250 or $500 is just too much (I certainly understand if it is,) would you please agree to $100, $50 or at least $25 today?
Republicans and Democrats from all over the country think we can end gun violence if we just let BILLIONAIRE Michael Bloomberg turn our state into the next New York, Maryland or California.
If you disagree, you need to say so right away.
For Minnesota,
Benjamin Dorr
Executive Director
Minnesota Gun Rights
P.S. Radical anti-gunners in near complete control of the Minnesota government are gearing up to ram radical “Red Flag Gun Seizures” into law!