I hate to say it but given the standard of current law, these red flag orders are going to be legal. They really aren’t any different in effect or operation than a standard protective order and those are granted willy nilly every single day in every county of every state in the country. And standard protective orders deprive you of your firearms rights as well, it is just that up to now, they haven’t actually gone out and collected them for the duration in most places.

If you really want to know when the camel got its nose under the tent and when the battle was lost, it was in the 90s when the Laufenberg am mementos was passed with bipartisan support.