Updated August 2022

Florida’s Red Flag Law Violates the Constitution and Threatens Your Freedom

The Red Flag Laws that currently exist are in several states in this country and Florida is one of these states. – Find out where -Click Here

After the Parkland, Florida. school shooting Florida lawmakers passed the 105 Pages Text of Law known as SB 7026 – Click Here. “An act relating to public safety” was quickly dubbed by the media the “gun control bill.” This law went into effect March 9, 2018 and ostensibly was intended to harden schools, add armed security and keep guns out of the hands of mentally ill individuals that were considered to be a threat to themselves and others.

In this rush to push this bill through many gun control provisions were added to the bill by traitorous Republicans. Those gun control provisions are:

1. a ban on the purchase of rifles and shotguns by adults under the age of 21,

2. a 3-day waiting period on rifles and shotguns,

3. a ban on the sale, transfer and possession of bump stocks and accessories that increase the rate of fire of a semiautomatic firearm and

4. Allowing these “Red Flag” provisions which totally violate the Constitution.

The Republican legislators were in control and sold us out, completely ignoring the will of the people and their oath of office.

The “Red Flag” or Extreme Risk Protection Orders as they are officially called provide for an individual to be tried Ex Parte. This means that a Sheriff’s deputy or other Certified Law Enforcement Officer/Agency that has received a complaint from a family member or citizen fills out a Temporary-Ex-Parte Risk Protection Order and Notice of Further Proceedings form and presents it to a Judge without the accused being present or even knowing they are being tried.

Does anyone think that a Judge receiving this compliant will do anything other than approve it because if they don’t and the individual goes out and commits an incident they will be under severe scrutiny. No Judge wants to be in that position.

Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg said in an appearance on MSNBC, August 27^th, 2019 that Florida’s “red flag” gun law is used around 5 times every day.

“That law is being used by law enforcement to get a judge to take away guns from someone who is deemed a threat to himself or others,” Aronberg, a Democrat, told “Morning Joe” host Mika Brzezinski on Aug. 27. “It has been used about 2,500 times in the state of Florida in the past year and a half. That’s about five times a day.”

If you are not frightened by this abusive law may the chains of bondage treat you kindly.

Take Action…Get in touch with your State House Representative or State Senator and the Governors office and let them know if you like these Red Flag Laws and want them repealed or changed. Click on the links below:

Find your Member of the Florida House of Representatives – Click here
Find members of the Florida Senate – Click here
Get in touch with Governor Ron DeSantis Office – Click here

Check out this article from Katz & Phillips of the The Firearm Firm on Florida’s Red Flag Laws – Click Here

By Scott Powers

August 11, 2019

As much of the country including President Donald Trump reacts to the El Paso and Dayton massacres by considering something like Florida’s “red flag” laws, Republican state Rep. Mike Hill has filed a bill to repeal the provisions intended to take away guns from individuals whom a judge has determined to be dangerous.

Hill on Friday filed House Bill 6003 that would repeal the red flag provisions and also other gun law changes Florida made in the wake of the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. They include the prohibition of mentally ill people to buy guns, the ban on bump-fire stock devices, the three-day waiting period for gun purchases, and the increase in minimum age to 21 for the purchase of rifles.

He filed a similar bill, House Bill 175, last year, though it went no where and was withdrawn.

Hill, a Republican from Pensacola, hopes to gut gun provisions included by the Republican-led Florida Legislature when it approved the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act [SB 7026].

That landmark bill and its provisions were decried by many Democrats as not going far enough to address gun violence in Florida, especially following the assault weapon powered massacres at Pulse in Orlando in 2016 and Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland in 2018. Still, the measure was hailed as the furthest the Florida Legislature and any Republican Governor, Gov. Rick Scott in this case, had gone in a generation to restrict guns.

Hill, who was first elected in 2018 after that bill was approved, said he supported the rest of the bill but thought the gun provisions went too far, were unconstitutional, and unwise.

“Anything that infringed upon ownership of guns, that’s what I wanted to  repeal,” Hill said.

Key among them were the red flag provisions, which allow law enforcement to go to court to ask a judge to temporarily seize firearms from someone deemed by the court as showing clear intentions of violence, and also to prevent people found to be mentally ill from purchasing firearms.

Now, after the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings, something like Florida’s red flag provisions are being considered coast to coast, and being pushed in Congress. Trump has expressed some support. Meanwhile, Florida Democratic Sen. Lori Berman and Rep. Richard Stark are again backing legislation, Senate Bill 114, to expand the red flag laws. Their proposal would allow family members of potentially dangerous individuals to petition a court to restrict that person’s access to weapons.

Hill said the timing of his bill’s filing is entirely coincidental to the mass shootings last weekend in El Paso and Dayton and the responses this week from various Republicans, including Trump, endorsing the red flag laws. He said he sent the bill to drafting weeks ago, before the latest atrocities, and it just emerged.

“In terms of President Trump wanting to look at, perhaps strengthening the red flag laws, which, if you call them what they are, they’re gun confiscation laws. I support President Trump 100 percent. I’ll have to say I hope he gets some further advice on this and not try to strengthen the red flag laws, because I believe they’re unconstitutional,” Hill said. “It goes against our Second Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, and the 14th Amendment.

“The red flag laws infringe on our Constitution. They are a clear violation,” he said.

Hill also expressed another concern. He noted the high number of military veterans coming back from war with some form of post traumatic stress disorder. Representing a district [House District 1] with large numbers of active duty military and veterans, Hill said he is concerned, and has spoken with some veterans who have expressed, that they might be unwilling to seek mental health treatment because they are afraid someone could pursue red flag laws and confiscate their guns, or prevent them from being able to buy guns.

The other gun provisions in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act he seeks to repeal also violate the U.S. Constitution, Hill insisted, though he also has other beefs with each of them. He said the bump stock provision is too vague, and could get gun owners in trouble for gun modifications that really are not bump stocks. The three-day waiting period, he said, would not stop any mass shootings. The age requirement, he said, means  young people can be old enough to go to war but not old enough to buy a rifle in Florida.

Quick Bullet Points of the Florida Red Flag Law

• The law violates the 1^st, 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th Amendment to the US Constitution.
• The law does not provide for due process and more than 4,000 Florida residents have been subjected to this law since its inception in March of 2018.
• Under this Law you are guilty and have to prove your innocence.
• Under this law you do not get to face your accuser.
• Under this law you are not even present or even know about your trial.

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West Palm Beach, FL 33416-7335
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