I have detected some really ugly gun control leaking into Montana from liberal states.
How can that happen, you ask. The Legislature is not in session, and even when it is, MSSA kills any gun control bills so they can’t become bad law here.
Here is how it happens. An upstanding guy married and living in Montana called an old girlfriend living in the Seattle area, to ask a question. That’s all he did, ask a question.
The former girlfriend contacted local (in Washington) police and reported that she’d felt threatened. Washington has Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs or a “Red Flag Law”) (Note – Montana law prohibits ERPOs), under which a judge can issue a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) in an “ex parte” (only the accuser’s side of the story is told) manner.
A Washington judge issued a TRO that, among other restraints, prohibited this Montana guy from possessing firearms.
The TRO was communicated to the town where the Montana guy lives and the local police department enforced the TRO by confiscating all of this Montana guy’s firearms. Done.
Because this guy had not been to Washington in three decades and because the accusing girlfriend recanted her story of threat, the judge reviewing the TRO dismissed it.
However, this Montana victim still cannot get his firearms returned.
Washington has a California-style, ten-day waiting period before a firearm may be transferred. Therefore, the Washington court must wait another ten days before officially notifying the Montana police department that it may return the victim’s firearms. Meanwhile, the victim has had to engage both a Washington attorney and a Montana attorney.
Click the link to read the whole article: WA Judge Issues Bogus Order & Takes Away MT Man’s Guns!?
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