Note to Delaware Voters: Ex Parte Means Kiss Your Gun Rights Goodbye

By Robert Farago

Gun control-minded Delaware legislators are in lockstep with their California colleagues, working to enact their version of a Gun Violence Restraining Order. SB 83 would empower Delaware courts to confiscate firearms from alleged domestic abusers without any testimony from the accused. The legal term for the process is ex parte. And it’s none too popular amongst fans of civil rights . . .

As Wikipedia explains, “the availability of ex parte orders or decrees from both federal and state courts is sharply limited by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, which provide that a person shall not be deprived of any interest in liberty or property without due process of law.”

In a delewareonline.com article entitled Reducing abusers’ access to guns to save women’s lives former Republican state legislator turned anti-domestic violence advocate Liane Sorenson [above, center] somehow fails to offer a definition of ex parte while sweeping away any and all objections.

A domestic abuse victim who seeks a PFA [Protection From Abuse] order may be granted a temporary “ex parte” order to cover the period before a formal hearing – but only after a judge carefully evaluates the complainant’s sworn testimony and …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns