But registries don’t lead to confiscation
Ravenwood also details gun confiscations in Mass (it’s like the Ravenwood show here today):
On Wednesday, for example, moments after a court placed a woman’s husband under a restraining order, a notice about the order popped up on a new computer terminal at the police station here. Given that information, the Woburn police went to the man’s house and confiscated his guns, all 13 of them.
The criteria for restraining orders are typically pretty weak. No jury, not trial. Just a sympathetic and easily influenced counselor of some sort and a judge is all it takes in a lot of cases. I don’t find that to be a reasonable basis for forcibly entering someone’s home to take anything.
And I’m not defending violence against women and think those that commit it should be, well, shot. However, I think that violence has to be proven without a doubt first.
