{"id":57466,"date":"2015-01-04T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57466"},"modified":"2015-01-03T18:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T23:57:30","slug":"navy-vetretired-cop-sues-ny-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57466","title":{"rendered":"Navy vet\/retired cop sues NY State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Montgomery, a Navy veteran and a retired police detective has filed a lawsuit against the State of New York claiming that the new SAFE Act went too far when New York State used it to confiscate his firearms, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/01\/02\/veteran-and-former-cop-sues-after-guns-confiscated-because-he-sought-treatment-for-insomnia\/\">Daily  Caller<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Montgomery\u2019s woes began on May 6 when he sought treatment from his primary care physician for insomnia, which he said he had been experiencing following a move from another state.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Staff there diagnosed Montgomery with \u201cDepression; Insomnia\u201d and he was prescribed medication and told to report back to his primary care physician if symptoms worsened over the next several days.<\/p>\n<p>Montgomery went back to the hospital on May 23 with the same complaint. He stayed at the facility for 48 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Though Montgomery voluntarily sought treatment, he alleges in the suit that staff at the facility erroneously listed him as an involuntary admission \u2014 a designation that appears to have put the SAFE Act\u2019s wheels in motion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A clerical error, a checked box, cost Montgomery his constitutional rights.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNurse\u2019s notes\u201d from Montgomery\u2019s stay show no documentation of mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatient has no thoughts of hurting himself. Patient has no thoughts of hurting others. Patient is not having suicidal thoughts. Patient is not having homicidal thoughts,\u201d the notes read.<\/p>\n<p>A psychological assessment labeled him \u201cmildly depressed,\u201d but otherwise determined \u201cthere is no evidence of any psychotic processes, mania, or OCD symptoms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The SAFE Act is so tightly wired that a little insomnia triggered the loss of Constitutional rights for a vet\/cop. I guess taking guns from people is more important than giving people who need help a little breathing room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Montgomery, a Navy veteran and a retired police detective has filed a lawsuit against the State of New York claiming that the new SAFE Act went too far when New York State used it to confiscate his firearms, according to the Daily Caller; Montgomery\u2019s woes began on May 6 when he sought treatment from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gun-grabbing-fascists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tattoo-gun.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-eWS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}