Veteran Describes How New York’s SAFE Act Wrongly Stole His Gun Rights

By Jenn Jacques

70-year-old Vietnam veteran Don Hall was shocked when deputies arrived at his Taberg, NY home one night to take his guns after he had wrongly been flagged “mentally defective”.

In an interview with Syracuse.com, Hall talks about his fight to figure out what went wrong, how authorities had the wrong man and what it took to get his guns back.

“I was guilty until I could prove myself innocent,” Hall said. “They don’t tell you why or what you supposedly did. It was just a bad screw-up.”

When Hall told police he’d never had any mental issues, Hall said, deputies told him he must have done something that triggered the order under the New York state’s SAFE Act.

The deputies left that night with six guns – two handguns and four long guns.

Hall hired a lawyer and secured affidavits from local hospitals to prove he hadn’t been recently treated – the only time he had been a patient at any of the hospitals was four years ago at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for a sleep apnea test.

At St. Elizabeth’s, Hall said a clerk looked up his name and read him a Social Security number. He said it was slightly different than his. …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms