Vern Humphrey
Member
There has been a lot of discussion of door-to-door searches and seizures of firearms. Apparently it has been exaggerated, but think about a counter-strategy.
1. Have an inventory of everything in your house, including serial numbers of your guns and photos of guns and furnished rooms. Put that in a safe place, outside of your residence. (You ought to do this anyway, for insurance purposes.)
2. Have a letter ready for signature: "I (name), having forced (your name) and family to leave their home against their wills, assume full responsibiliity for the home and all it's contents (inventory attached)" and add lines for signature, name and SSAN of the person ordering you out. (You may want to simple designate your guns in this case as "gun collection."
3. Politely ask the people trying to search or evacuate your home, "Do you have a warrant?" "Do you have a court order? Please show me your written authority to make me leave and to take my property." "I want a reciept for everything you take."
4. Have other family members taking pictures. (If possible, have a battery-operated concealed camera so you can record any attempts to take your cameras.)
5. Have your lawyer in the suit you file later demand they produce the guns physically, or document their destruction (dollars to doughnuts the people who confiscate them will keep the choice pieces.)
Let me point out that any actions they take because you politely ask what their authority is, or because you ask for a receipt are crimes. Stopping you from taking pictures can be seen as an admission they knew they were violating the law. And taking or destroying the cameras, tape recorders, documents, and so on can be seen as an admission of guilt.
And destroying or tampering with evidence is a crime all by itself.
1. Have an inventory of everything in your house, including serial numbers of your guns and photos of guns and furnished rooms. Put that in a safe place, outside of your residence. (You ought to do this anyway, for insurance purposes.)
2. Have a letter ready for signature: "I (name), having forced (your name) and family to leave their home against their wills, assume full responsibiliity for the home and all it's contents (inventory attached)" and add lines for signature, name and SSAN of the person ordering you out. (You may want to simple designate your guns in this case as "gun collection."
3. Politely ask the people trying to search or evacuate your home, "Do you have a warrant?" "Do you have a court order? Please show me your written authority to make me leave and to take my property." "I want a reciept for everything you take."
4. Have other family members taking pictures. (If possible, have a battery-operated concealed camera so you can record any attempts to take your cameras.)
5. Have your lawyer in the suit you file later demand they produce the guns physically, or document their destruction (dollars to doughnuts the people who confiscate them will keep the choice pieces.)
Let me point out that any actions they take because you politely ask what their authority is, or because you ask for a receipt are crimes. Stopping you from taking pictures can be seen as an admission they knew they were violating the law. And taking or destroying the cameras, tape recorders, documents, and so on can be seen as an admission of guilt.
And destroying or tampering with evidence is a crime all by itself.