This is why my wife or I will never tell our doctor we are feeling a little down, maybe a little depressed. Once that enters your record or you are prescribed a drug for a mental issue, you are susceptible to this kind of thing.

Heck, the popo in New Orleans seized weapons after Katrina just because they wanted to.

This is how it works: The govt. makes a law, and soon we learn when and where to speak our mind. Eventually we decide not to speak our mind anywhere. I already know that I should never tell anyone that I own a gun (if I did own a gun).

I own a gun, #3. In fact I own more than one, but I ain´t going to say how many. And there´s no way I will turn them in because the gubbermint wants ´em, or me not to have them.

FTA: Merely being in a database of registered gun owners and having a “disqualifying event,” such as a felony conviction or restraining order, isn’t sufficient evidence for a search warrant, Marsh said March 5 during raids in San Bernardino County. So the agents often must talk their way into a residence to look for weapons, he said.

Simple solution, don´t let jackboots in without a warrant.

so not only does the state of california already have a database of who has purchased a gun, they get to confiscate them and destroy them without compensation or hearing?

The prohibited person can’t have access to a firearm,” regardless of who the registered owner is, said Michelle Gregory, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office.

This could be used to disqualify an entire family. Also, note the team is entering without search warrants in many cases.

Also, Why do they take the ammunition if they already took the guns?

FTA: "Almost 20,000 gun owners in the state are prohibited from possessing firearms, including convicted felons, those under a domestic violence restraining order or deemed mentally unstable."

It´s one thing to be a convicted felon. But how is "mentally unstable" defined, and BY WHOM?

FTA: "Merely being in a database of registered gun owners and having a “disqualifying event,” such as a felony conviction or restraining order, isn’t sufficient evidence for a search warrant......So the agents often must talk their way into a residence to look for weapons, he said."

"talk their way in"? If they don´t have a search warrant they have no f****** business going to someone´s door!

When you register firearms, ultimately you lose them. Happens every time.

So HIPPA alls the goobernment to know citizen´s mental health records. How about that! IF any of us disclosed confidential mental health information, we go to jail. But the goobernment can get its hands on any and all our records and then do to us whatever the goobernment wants. I don´t even think Hitler had this much control.

Mentally unstable? Engaged in combat?

The definitions accumulate. This administration can soon just pick a number from one to a thousand and what ever comes up will be what they will use.

Those New Orleans government thugs seized guns from law-abiding homeowners during Katrina because armed mobs of thugs were invading and robbing homes and the government didn´t want them to be inconvenienced.

Re.#7 This could disqualify an entire neighborhood, maybe city.

Make everything a crime and total control follows.

Diane Feinstein bought a gun when her husband was dying of cancer. One would think she was depressed and emotionally unstable at that time. Some reporter should ask her about that.

It´s starting.
They´re coming for your guns.

Even if the list of disqualifying events made perfect sense, that list can be changed at the whim of bureaucrats. It already has. Look at the Lautenbrg amendment for a good bad example.
The list might change, but the registry will not disappear when it does. Whats legal today will be illegal tomorrow, and if your guns are registered there isnt a blessed thing you can do about it.
Never trust these people. Never register.

Staff, please excuse the second reply. The longer I think about this story, the more disturbing it gets. It is simply dangerous that California seizes weapons from people who are in no way disqualified to own a gun. The final insult is that the gun owner is uncompensated. How can these tyrants get away with confiscation of private property? Has there been a court challenge
to this oppressive law?

My gravest 2nd Amendment concern is that democrats have no limits. If dims take the House in 2014 obama and his creepy agents will have no constraints. Can anyone even conceptualize how far democrats will go with gun ownership restrictions if we lose the House? Grab a tight rein.

Soon, bouncing a check will be all the excuse the government needs to take your right to legally own a gun away.

As Ayn Rand wrote, the government needs criminals in order to rule. Men who are not criminals cannot be ruled. Simple solution is to make laws that make all men criminals.....or something to that effect.

#19, in some states writing a bad check, even by accident, is a felony.

Sounds like they already have grounds to keep folks from owning guns based on their check-writing history.