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In reply to the discussion: Father of CA Shooting Victim Points Directly at NRA [View all]petronius
(26,617 posts)system, and that seems to be where a significant hang-up is. We have a long way to go in identifying the people who are legally, formerly, judicially disqualified before getting to the "everybody knows s/he's a problem it's just commonsense" cases - and there are huge privacy and due process/fairness issues when it comes to disqualifying people who have not been through the legal system.
What I've read about the APPS - albeit from the perspective of the agents involved and reporters interviewing them - is that it's pretty non-jackboot-ish. As I recall, they often can't get warrants based on the information they have, and it becomes a process of persuasion (hopefully in the real sense of that word and not the flexible bad-cop version of 'voluntary cooperation')...