GunGuys.com blames NRA for lax law enforcement in california

Mike Magnum, owner of GunGuys.com, put up an article today about the orange county register starting a series of articles concerning people who have had restraining orders filed against them but have still been able to retain their firearms. Now, it is california state law that domestic abusers, or anyone having a restraining order imposed upon them, are supposed to have all of their firearms confiscated but for some reason its not happening. Why? well, the article pretty much sums it up with this:

There are about 260,000 active restraining orders in California, according to the Department of Justice. But an Orange County Register investigation found that none of the state’s 58 counties has a mechanism for ensuring that weapons are surrendered within 24 hours, as required by law.

In addition, about 4,700 restraining orders listed in a statewide database last month did not include the mandatory firearms restriction.

So why is this happening?

Here, no one routinely confiscates the defendant's weapons, or checks the restrained person's name against the state database of registered gun owners. No one is charged with verifying that the weapons are surrendered as ordered.

Court and law-enforcement officials trace the inaction to a gap in the law, which doesn't designate which agency is responsible for enforcing the statute.

"I don't think the law specifies at all who's responsible," Riverside County Presiding Judge Sharon Waters said. "We view that as law enforcement's responsibility, but I don't know if they view that as their responsibility."

Judges say they cannot order blanket search warrants for all restrained persons without reasonable cause.

Law-enforcement officials say they can only confiscate weapons with a judge's directive, or if the restrained person has violated the restraining order.

So instead of patching a badly written law we have the many different branches of the justice department pointing fingers of blame.

Last year, Orange County made one of the few attempts to set up a mechanism for confiscating weapons with a pilot program run by the state Department of Justice and the county’s Domestic Violence Court.

Under the program, defendants arraigned in criminal domestic-violence cases and subject to mandatory gun prohibitions were given 24 hours to report to the local Department of Justice and make arrangements to surrender weapons.

At least Orange County made an attempt, but what happened?

But that program was suspended due to lack of funding.

So lets see if we understand this. People are dying because a badly written law isn't being fixed, nobody wants to take responsibility for its failure or for fixing it and nobody wants to spend any money to keep it going. that about right?

Nowhere in this entire article do I see the NRA mentioned. Not one single time. So whats Mike Magnum write?

Why did the program fail? Because the people who funded it succumbed yet again to the NRA’s rhetoric.

This is the problem in America– that the NRA has developed an entire culture that is confused about guns and the danger they represent. Even when the laws are in place, the NRA has given America a blind spot about gun violence. And it’s costing us American lives. The sooner we clear away the cloud the NRA has built up around guns, the sooner we’ll see clearly that they represent the gravest of threats.

Now, I've come across some beautiful spin in the last few years I've been interested in politics and gun rights, but this one is a doozy. To quote an article that doesn't even mention the NRA but certainly details the failures of the states justice department and to blame that entire failure on the NRA is just incredible.

Another fine example of how Mike Magnum resorts to misinformation, deception, inuendo, and outright lies to promote his anti gun agenda.