To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (786890 ) 5/30/2014 2:35:56 PM From: Brumar89 3 RecommendationsRecommended By
Read Replies (1) | Respond to It's a CA law. Given his youtube suicide and murder threats supplied to the police by his family, they SHOULD have held him for a mental health eval. They would then have known about his guns and could have seized them:.... any police officer, can take a person into custody for a 72 hour mental health evaluation, under Welfare & Institutions Code § 5150 . If the hospital evaluating that person decides that he is indeed mentally ill, he can be held for an additional fourteen days for “intensive treatment” under § 5250 . It turns out that police had contacted Elliot Rodger because his family had seen his social media posts about “suicide and killing people.” Why didn’t the police take him into custody under § 5150? If a person has been held under either 5150 or 5250, they may not possess a firearm or ammunition for five years . California has required all handgun purchases or transfers to go through the Dealer’s Record of Sale process since Elliott Rodger was in diapers. There is no exemption for gun shows, or ads in the newspaper. California requires all new residents to register their firearms .The police thus have access to registration records for all handguns, at least for people as young as Elliot Rodger , who by all accounts legally purchased his handguns. Had they taken him into custody under § 5150, they would have had access to a list of all his registered handguns, and would have been authorized to search Rodger’s residence for and take into custody those handguns . http://pjmedia.com/blog/california-has-enough-laws/?singlepage=true
