Agents seized 500 guns from a Clovis family. After a court fight, they got them back w/ pic

[Aim1]

Sounds like this guy got used. And that's a lot of guns. I'm sure they weren't all treated with care. I'd hate to get my guns back all roughed up and scratched or worse.


This is an arsenal! When the news talks about someone having one, this is what it should look like, not one guy with 3 rifles and 200 rounds of ammo.



Also from the article:

The issue took on renewed interest this year when President Donald Trump signed a bill scrapping an Obama administration regulation adding those receiving mental health disability benefits to the national firearm background-check database. Persons in the database are barred from buying guns.




http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article142449644.html#storylink=cpy

Agents seized 500 guns from a Clovis family. After a court fight, they got them back


April 3, 2017 1:42 PM

The weapons were confiscated by state DOJ agents acting on information that Albert Sheakalee was barred from owning guns because he was in the state’s Armed Prohibited Persons (APPS) database.
However, his attorney, Mark Coleman of Fresno, argued that Sheakalee did not know that he was in the database. Coleman said the justice department broke a promise to Sheakalee to keep the raid confidential until a court hearing determined whether he was mentally fit to own guns.

No charges were ever filed against Sheakalee, but the firearms were not returned until Coleman went to court. On Dec. 12, 2016, Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jonathan Conklin ordered the guns turned over to a Fresno firearms dealer on behalf of the family.


Said Coleman: “As far as I am concerned, it was a real political deal. Harris was running for senator.”

 

[Deltaboy1984]

Horrible behavior by those folks. Glad he got his property back.

 

[BigBore44]

I'm really glad he got his guns back.

But I wonder what he had to pay in court costs to win the case and get them back.

 

[jmorris]

I would comment but it wouldn't be appropriate for THR.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

This is an arsenal!
Looks to me like a large private collection.

...scrapping an Obama administration regulation adding those receiving mental health disability benefits to the national firearm background-check database...
And, labelling a recipient of Social Security disability benefits who has a fiduciary handle their finances as a mental case dangerous to self or others without an actual adjudication that the person is dangerous (and without a due process appeal if the person is wrongfully listed) is itself a dangerous expansion of the prohibited person list.
For some elderly people, a gun collection may be an asset and neither they nor their guns are a credible threat.

 

[JeffG]

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Sounds like this guy got used. And that's a lot of guns. I'm sure they weren't all treated with care. I'd hate to get my guns back all roughed up and scratched or worse.


This is an arsenal! When the news talks about someone having one, this is what it should look like, not one guy with 3 rifles and 200 rounds of ammo.

That's a lot of hardware.

Also from the article:

The issue took on renewed interest this year when President Donald Trump signed a bill scrapping an Obama administration regulation adding those receiving mental health disability benefits to the national firearm background-check database. Persons in the database are barred from buying guns.




http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article142449644.html#storylink=cpy

That's a lot of hardware.

 

[ironworkerwill]

Some here thought the APPS database( or what ever its called) was a great idea. I still contend that some in the medical field don't have your personal freedoms on their list of priorities an is a useful tool for the government to disarm many Americans.

I'm glad the family got their arms back and the state DOJ ought to be made to compensate the family for all damages. But that'll probably never happen.

 

[GBExpat]

And here I was thinking that I have a nice-size collection/accumulation of firearms.

Humbling ...