New confiscatory CA gun law as of 2016

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California State FlagThe DailyCaller.com seems to think so.  As does the WashingtonTimes.com.

I have some very salient comments to add after these pull quotes.

California law allowing seizure of guns without notice begins Jan. 1

by Andrew Blake

Gun control legislation going into effect in California next week will allow authorities to seize a person’s weapons for 21 days if a judge determines there is potential for violence.

Proposed in the wake of a deadly May 2014 shooting rampage by Elliot Rodger, the bill provides family members with a means of having an emergency “gun violence restraining order” imposed against a loved one if they can convince a judge that this person’s possession of a firearm “poses an immediate and present danger of causing personal injury to himself, herself or another by having in his or her custody or control.”

“The law gives us a vehicle to cause the person to surrender their weapons, to have a time out, if you will,” Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Michael Moore told a local NPR affiliate. “It allows further examination of the person’s mental state.”

 

DailyCaller.com wrote:

AB1014 was passed last year in the wake of 2014’s Isla Vista shooting, where teenager Elliot Rodger went on a rampage near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara, killing six people along with himself.

Further:

The new law is intended to stop such a situation from re-occurring. Under the law, a judge has the power to grant a restraining order telling police to seize a person’s guns, based solely on accounts from family members or police that the person is poses an imminent danger to others. The restraining order can be granted without the affected person knowing it exists or being allowed time to contest it.

Once granted, police can use the restraining order to confiscate all of a person’s guns and ammunition, and the person is also barred from buying or possessing guns and ammo for the duration of the order. A full court hearing must then be heard within three weeks. At that hearing, a judge will be able to extend the restraining order for an entire year.

My interjection:

That is not unprecedented in Fornicalia.  As a peace officer, if I made a detention under 5150 W&I and determined that someone fell under those parameters, I could legally confiscate their guns on that call.

5150(a) When a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, a peace officer, professional person in charge of a facility designated by the county for evaluation and treatment, member of the attending staff, as defined by regulation, of a facility designated by the county for evaluation and treatment, designated members of a mobile crisis team, or professional person designated by the county may, upon probable cause, take, or cause to be taken, the person into custody for a period of up to 72 hours for assessment, evaluation, and crisis intervention, or placement for evaluation and treatment in a facility designated by the county for evaluation and treatment and approved by the State Department of Health Care Services. At a minimum, assessment, as defined in Section 5150.4, and evaluation, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 5008, shall be conducted and provided on an ongoing basis. Crisis intervention, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 5008, may be provided concurrently with assessment, evaluation, or any other service.

When I made a commitment under 5150 W&I, I was legally bound to inquire about firearms in the affected household and then book them for safekeeping when they were brought to my attention.  My failure to do that would have resulted in my receipt of discipline, at minimum.  Once the commitment was accepted, should that occur, the firearms per Cal DOJ were not to be returned for a period of five years.  One can petition the local court in which the guns or deadly weapons were confiscated.  California section 5250 W&I (Welfare & Institutions code) deals with firearms following a 5150 W&I hold being placed.  I was very careful when placing said holds and sometimes refused to make them against the wishes of family members — who could have an agenda.

In the new instance, however, under AB 1014, weapons can be confiscated in lieu of a 5150 hold and the injection of law enforcement in an emergency situation.  I only found myself involved, as a law enforcement officer, in an emergency call.  Here is the very important caveat:

Practically, this means once you are his with the restraining order you will never own a firearm again for the rest of your life and the ones the police take from you will never be returned. Is any California judge going to lift the restraining order and take the risk that at some later point you may be involved in a shooting of some kind? No.

So, do you, the subject of such an action have the right to be notified that such an allegation has been made against you? Do you have to right to contest their application? Can you contest the ability of the state, without anything approaching probably cause, to have you hauled in for “mental evaluation?” (Why is it that totalitarian regimes invariably use the mental health system to deal with dissidents and non-conformists?) Nope.

How will you find out? When a SWAT team shows up at your door to take your weapons and cart you off for a mental health evaluation.

Beware.  It is, after all, Fornicalia.  And there is a reason I call it that.

More is coming, America.

In 2016.

Obama will issue his imperial executive gun orders in just a few more days.

BZ

Obama Gun ConfiscationP.S.

After I installed Ad-Blocker software on my confuser, Life got so much better for me when I went to various sites.  My computer would scream in pain as it found itself stymied by advertisements on various sites.  The Daily Caller site was one of the worst.  Now I can actually link DailyCaller without crashing my confuser.

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California’s push for greater decline

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California Welcome To ItBecause it now involves public derision of high school graduation.

Actually passing high school will no longer be necessary in a few days.

From Breitbart.com:

California Laws: On January 1st, Students Won’t Have to Pass High School to Receive Diploma

by William Bigelow

On January 1, California residents will have to accustom themselves to a number of new laws that will be implemented in the state. These are some the laws that will likely have the most profound effect:

SB 172: High school seniors will receive their diploma whether or not they pass or even take an exit exam; the law also applies retroactively to students who have graduated since 2004;

Come on, really, let’s think about it.  Actually having to pass high school before receiving a HS diploma is way too onerous for the delicate sensibilities of Fornicalia children.  It has been way too searing, too judgmental, too scarring, too psyche-damaging.  That’s one very important reason that the law is retroactive.

Think about it.

Next: let’s just stop all those esteem-deflating grades from teachers.  Passing every grade should be a right, not some kind of Caucasoid privilege.

Fornicalia kids, after all, are special.  They even have their own short bus.

BZ

 

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Meadowlark Lemon passes

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Meadowlark_Lemon_Signed_16x20A sad day indeed.

He was 83.

As part of the Harlem Globetrotters, I went to watch him play many times at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacratomato.

From CNN.com:

Harlem Globetrotter Meadowlark Lemon, famed hoops jester, dies at 83

by Brandon Griggs

(CNN) George “Meadowlark” Lemon, the basketball star who entertained millions of fans around the world with his antics as a longtime member of the Harlem Globetrotters, died Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 83.

Lemon played 24 seasons and by his own estimate more than 16,000 games with the Globetrotters, the touring exhibition basketball team known for its slick ball-handling, practical jokes, red-white-and-blue uniforms and multiyear winning streaks against overmatched opponents.

He also was one of a handful of Globetrotters whose fame transcended sports, especially among children during the team’s heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. Lemon was immortalized in a Harlem Globetrotters cartoon series and appeared on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” episodes of “Scooby Doo” and many national TV commercials.

Another piece of the past goodness and simpler times of America dies.

God bless you, George Lemon.

Let’s watch you at work.

You thrilled and entertained for years sir.  Rest in peace.

BZ

 

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What was your first car?

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1966 Ford Fairlane Sedan

BZ’s first car, only it was white.

[Sorry, no politics until Monday.  Perhaps not even then.  Just depends.]

This time of year makes me wistful, thoughtful, comtemplative.  Out of the blue I thought of the first car I’d ever purchased.

My first car was a used 1966 Ford Fairlane sedan, with a white exterior and blue interior.  It had cloth seat inserts, if I recall correctly.  It actually had air conditioning.  It was the first car I purchased with money I had actually saved, for $500.  I bought it in Ohio, when I was living in Kettering, in 1972.

The car was in great shape for its years, thought it already had 70,000 miles and the front shock towers squeaked like crazy.  It had a small block 289 CI V-8 and the mileage was, well, let’s just say it’s a good thing gas was 35¢ a gallon.  It came from the era when, if you opened the hood, you could easily see a lot of ground underneath the engine.

1966 Ford Fairlane Sedan Dashboard

1966 Ford Fairlane dashboard.  BZ’s car had a blue interior and a column shift precisely like this one.

The car had a bench front seat.  For those of you unfamiliar with the term (as there is no such thing as a bench seat produced any more, with the exception of rather bare-bones pickup trucks), this is what a beach seat looks like.

1966 Ford Fairlane Bench SeatFairlane bench seat like BZ’s car. Blue interior just like the GrungeMobile. “Wood grain” on the door was simply an sticky decal applique.

Though the air conditioner was sub-par, the heater kicked butt.  It had to, in freezing Ohio winters.  I can still remember when a neighbor couldn’t open his door one early morning until he had poured cold water over it; he slammed it shut a minute later and the hinges cracked.

On the other hand, when the defroster or air conditioner was activated, there was a terrible metallic grinding and clangour under the hood.  It was never enough to bother or concern me.  I wasn’t mechanically inclined at all, though my father had a shop/garage in the back of the house where he would repair all the family cars as well as refurbish the cars he bought and sold over the years in the 60s.

My first car was significant on a number of levels.  It was the car in which my first steady girlfriend and I would commute to high school.  It was the car where I first learned to drive in the snow and on the ice.  I remember I would purposely take it into the empty Kroger’s supermarket parking lot at night and do doughnuts, trying to avoid the concrete light poles.  I learned how to properly countersteer in those situations and how to threshold brake when appropriate.  This early training would serve me well when I because an EVOC instructor in the late 70s for law enforcement.

It was also the vehicle into which I was introduced to vehicular sex.  For obvious reasons and under obvious young and enthusiastic circumstances.

Ah, memories.

So tell me: what was your first car, and what do you associate with it?  What year, what make, and how much did you pay for it?  What was gas per gallon when you bought it?

BZ

 

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