And then the idea will spread to all the other states and then we can really get busy with disarming all those dangerous folks!
I think you missed something in the article:
Massachusetts is the 12th state to enact such gun seizure laws, according to Huffington Post. It is also the seventh state to do so since the February school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
I don't think the MA law actually authorizes a roommate to physically seize the guns, but it probably establishes a long laundry list of "interested parties" who have standing to obtain an
ex parte restraining order, which then sends the
jack-booted thugs friendly, helpful police officers to confiscate the guns. This just happened to my NRA training counselor. His wife filed an order, and a SWAT team showed up at his house to take away all his guns and ammunition. Now he has had to hire an attorney to try to get them back.
Meanwhile, he's mostly out of business as a firearms trainer, because he can't touch a gun or ammunition. I told him to schedule any classes he wants to run, and I'll act as his assistant instructor. I've got plenty of blue guns, non-firing replicas, airsofts, and blank guns, and I'm not a prohibited person (that I know of), so we can make it work. The point being, though, that he had no warning. The cops just showed up. There was no due process before the fact. As in MA, my state's idea of "due process" now is, "We'll take them, and then you can argue why we shouldn't keep them later."
