It was worse than that. It wasn't only elected government officials; it involved police operating on their own volition in determining they had the right to lie to/mislead the wife and then seize weapons without any warrant whatsoever. Had they their way, they'd extend those kinds of "community protection" takings to doctors, neighbors, or any manner of person(s) whose provenance and applicability wrt Constitutional rights are suspect at the best.This is an interesting statement. “It would have written the Second Amendment phrase “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” in such a way as to make it conditional on the subjective judgment of government officials that allowing you to do so was not unreasonable.”