{"id":64763,"date":"2016-03-10T10:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64763"},"modified":"2016-03-10T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T15:48:07","slug":"seizing-ralph-gilbertsens-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64763","title":{"rendered":"Seizing Ralph Gilbertsen’s guns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Old Trooper sends us a link to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune<\/a> which tells the story of eccentric 74-year-old Ralph Gilbertsen, a former Marine, and, now a former gun owner. He has a state-issued concealed weapons permit, but no guns, because someone got worried about him and the fact that he believes in Big Foot and claims to have seen a UFO. He also claims that the CIA has been following him for years;<\/p>\n

In his letters, Gilbertsen identified specific residents and staffers at his apartment building as CIA agents, and warned that \u201cthey will lie and deny it.\u201d He also identified specific Richfield police officers as CIA spies.<\/p>\n

In neat, precise handwriting, he keeps a list of the license plate numbers of more than 75 vehicles that he believes have followed him recently.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are literally hundreds of CIA spies in Richfield alone that harass me,\u201d he wrote in one letter. \u201cThere are thousands of these people in the south-suburban area. I am certain I will be murdered some day.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So the building managers where he lives called the police and the police took his guns.<\/p>\n

When three Richfield police officers knocked on Gilbertsen\u2019s door last May, they were there at the request of Hennepin Community Outreach for Psychiatric Emergencies (COPE). The 30-person agency is a sort of SWAT team for mental illness, handling more than 13,000 cases last year, about one-third of them in person.<\/p>\n

The managers of Gilbertsen\u2019s apartment building called COPE after his latest series of letters. When they warned he might have guns, COPE called for a police escort.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he’s a little eccentric and a bit paranoid, but he has a clean criminal record, otherwise he wouldn’t be able to get a CCW. He hasn’t made any threats, he hasn’t assaulted anyone.<\/p>\n

If anyone needs their guns taken away, it’s those stupid Big Foot hunters on the television. They’re nutty and don’t know how to handle firearms around other people. But, not Ralph. If he is the victim of a crime, and the police have his guns, who will take responsibility? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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