FL Red Flag Orders Issued To Shocking Number Of Children

By Tom Knighton

Red flag orders are controversial enough already. After all, you’re taking someone’s guns based on suspicions and little else. Nevermind that we’ve found time and time again that it’s not really necessary to stop mass shootings.

However, a recent investigative report has found some particularly alarming trends in some places regarding red flag orders in the Sunshine State.

Florida’s new red flag law – created to protect the public from future mass shooters – has temporarily stripped gun rights from more than 2,500 people across the state, including at least 100 kids, an I-Team review found.

I-Team Investigator found law enforcement seeking orders to take away gun possession and ownership rights from children as young as 8-years-old – even though state law already prohibits anyone younger than 21 from buying a gun.

“That’s insane,” said Orlando defense attorney Kendra Parris when she heard about the I-Team’s findings.

Among the people hit with so-called risk protection orders since March 2018:

• • A 91-year-old man, who claimed he wanted to “even the score” with his late wife’s alleged lover;

• • A former U.S. Marine-turned-teacher, who admitted he told students during a lockdown drill how he could be “the best” school shooter;

• • And an 8-year-old in Polk …Read the Rest

  Source:: Bearing Arms