CA Assemblyman Ting: Let Employers, Coworkers File Gun Violence Restraining Orders

By Robert Farago

California’s Gun Violence Restraining Orders (GVRO) allows immediate family members to petition a court to have their relative’s firearms confiscated. Ex parte (without the accused being present). If a judge rules “there is a substantial likelihood that the subject poses a significant danger of harm to himself, herself, or another in the near future by having in his or her custody or control, owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm” the judge may order the family member’s firearms confiscated. For 21 days initially. Then up to a year. Renewable. Assemblyman Phil Ting wasn’t satisfied . . .

Mr. Ting wants to revise/expand the GVRO law via a new bill AB-2607.

This bill would also authorize an employer, a coworker, a mental health worker who has seen the person as a patient in the last 6 months, or an employee of a secondary or postsecondary school that the person has attended in the last 6 months to file a petition for an ex parte, one-year, or renewed gun violence restraining order.

If the bill becomes law, just about anyone who opposes gun ownership — or has some other grudge against a gun owner — could file for a GVRO. The …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns