{"id":134138,"date":"2022-11-28T09:47:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=134138"},"modified":"2022-11-28T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T14:47:20","slug":"court-sides-with-u-s-navy-officer-on-weapons-registration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134138","title":{"rendered":"Court sides with U.S. Navy officer on weapons registration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun-control-not-about-controlling-gun-possession-it-is-about-controlling-people.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126397\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun-control-not-about-controlling-gun-possession-it-is-about-controlling-people-300x232.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun-control-not-about-controlling-gun-possession-it-is-about-controlling-people-300x232.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun-control-not-about-controlling-gun-possession-it-is-about-controlling-people-431x333.jpg 431w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Gun-control-not-about-controlling-gun-possession-it-is-about-controlling-people.jpg 568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal judge ruled on behalf of a U.S. Navy officer stationed in Hawaii and ordered that he be allowed to continue the registration process. While registering his firearms with the Honolulu Police Department, Michael Santucci answered yes for a question asking if the applicant sought counselling.<\/p>\n<p>He was not diagnosed with anything, and was simply homesick and depressed. The police stopped the registration process and confiscated his weapons. Thanks to the ruling, Santucci should be able to continue the process as he originally planned.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">From AP News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HONOLULU (AP) \u2014 A U.S. Navy officer stationed in Hawaii cannot be denied a firearms permit solely because he sought counseling for feeling depressed and homesick, a federal judge ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Santucci, a cryptologic warfare officer from Fort Myers, Florida, saw a medical provider at a military hospital for feelings of depression and homesickness a few months after arriving in Hawaii last year, according to his lawsuit, filed in April.<\/p>\n<p>He wasn\u2019t diagnosed with any disqualifying behavioral, emotional or mental disorder, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n<p>He later filled out forms to register his firearms with the Honolulu Police Department and indicated that he had been treated for depression, but noted it was \u201cnot serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawaii law requires registration of all firearms. Prior to acquiring a gun, an applicant must apply for a permit. Santucci needed such a permit even though he legally owned his firearms before arriving Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Because Santucci answered \u201cyes\u201d on a form indicating he had sought counseling, the permit process was halted and his firearms were seized, his lawyers said.<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu must return Santucci\u2019s firearms and complete the registration of the weapons, U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson\u2019s order issued Wednesday said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe City is evaluating the decision and its impact on our processes,\u201d Honolulu Corporation Counsel Dana Viola said in a statement Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin O\u2019Grady, one of Santucci\u2019s lawyers, said the case was \u201cillustrative of Hawaii\u2019s strong opposition to anything that approaches the free exercise of the Second Amendment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AP News has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/health-lawsuits-gun-politics-hawaii-honolulu-87ab2bc0f2ad283fcf2191c4c3f55170\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal judge ruled on behalf of a U.S. Navy officer stationed in Hawaii and ordered &hellip; <a title=\"Court sides with U.S. Navy officer on weapons registration\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=134138\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Court sides with U.S. Navy officer on weapons registration<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[397],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}