Should never have been confiscated to begin with.
Via The Blaze:
In mid-March Lynette Phillips’ home in California was visited by police who were there to confiscate her husband’s firearms and ammunition because she had spent three days in the hospital (checked herself in) for mental health reasons, making her ineligible under the state’s law to possess guns.
Nearly, The Blaze has learned, the firearms were returned to the family a month ago — but not the ammunition.
TheBlaze spoke with Phillips about the process of retrieving her husband’s guns and with her lawyer about why hundreds of dollars of ammo might not have been returned.
“It was basically waiting and paperwork,” Phillips said of the process, which took several months since the firearms were confiscated from her home in March by nine police in bulletproof vests with the Department of Justice.
“It’s a process, unfortunately, we should never have had to go through in the first place,” Phillips said, echoing a sentiment she expressed to TheBlaze after the firearms were initially taken.
At that time, Phillips told TheBlaze her husband was “upset that they took the right from us that should never have been taken.”
Why? Because Phillips explained that she had admitted herself to a hospital in December at the suggestion of her psychiatrist when she had reacted to an adjustment to her medication and could not stop crying. Here’s what TheBlaze previously reported of that situation: