Gun-control efforts often center on hardware,
such as limiting or banning the ownership of particular firearms
and ammunition. But in California this year, the most
significant new gun-related law is less about the guns and
more about identifying people who might be too dangerous to own
them. A.B. 1014, which goes into effect Jan. 1,
2016, creates a Gun Violence Restraining Order that allows
people who suspect a family member is mentally unstable or
dangerous to get a court order forbidding that person from owning
weaponry and ammo. Steven Greenhut says the main problem critics
have with the new law involves due process. A gun owner may be
deprived of a constitutional right for a year based on the claims
of even distant relatives and using a lower “reasonable” standard
rather than the “clear and convincing” standard.
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