New From CRPA TV: “Red Flag” Laws Can Attack The Lawful
Miranda Wallingford and her husband settled in Huntington Beach over half a century ago and lived a peaceful life in a quiet neighborhood for many years before a disagreement with a neighbor over a tree plunged their lives into turmoil.
In the latest installment of CRPA TV, Mrs. Wallingford and attorney Matt Cubeiro join host Kevin Small to discuss how so-called “red flag” laws required the Wallingfords to forfeit their Second Amendment rights without due process over a simple (but wacky) neighborhood dispute. All of this while the Wallingford’s harassing neighbor continues to threaten their lives!
Now 81 years old, the courageous Mrs. Wallingford is the plaintiff in Wallingford v. Bonta, a case challenging the state laws that allow otherwise law-abiding citizens to fall into the same set of circumstances as she did.
Hinging civil rights (and the loss thereof) to the state’s dysfunctional restraining order paradigm exemplifies exactly why “red flag” laws are so troublesome. Such laws are cast to the public as keeping guns “out of the wrong hands”, but the Wallingford case shows clearly how they can be used to deprive lawful people of their right to defend themselves.