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OK , this will be kinda lengthy but hang in there because this needs to get out. A couple of weeks ago at the Centralia gun show. I talked to the first person that I personally know of that has wrongfully fell victim to the abuse of the red flag laws. This gentle man lives in rural Thurston County. Not exactly sure where. He lives on a 5 acre lot with a couple of neighbors. The neighbors live on fairly large lots as well. My friend can not visually see either house from his house. Appearantly, one of the neighbors is allowing and charge people to ilegally camp on his property. Not just a couple of people but several. That has created more traffic on his road and the type of people doing the camping are questionable. The main problem is the neighbor is dump solid human waste on the property with no septic system in place. Just a pit. My friend lives by himself with a couple of dogs. He is a bit on edge being there alone. To top that off, he is disabled and in a wheel chair. So he is at a real disadvantage if something were to happen. Well my friend got ahold of Thurston County to report these land use issues. So the county paid his neighbor a visit. Here is where it gets nasty. In retaliation, the neighbor went to the county court and got a restraining order against my friend and everything in the order was false. But you do not have to proove accusations when getting a restraining order. All it takes is just the accusation. Some of the accusations were my friend tried to run down his kids, shooting a shotgun off the back porch(which is totally legal where he lives even if that happened) and here is the kicker. The neighbor accused my wheel chair bound friend of coming to his house and pounding on the door. Major flaw saying that. The nieghbors house is not wheel chair accessable and to get to the front door you have to take a step up over 12 inches. How is a person in a wheel chair going to get up that step and pound on the door. So if anybody has a restraining order filled against them in Washington. Here is what happens. First thing they do is run the person it was filled on for any criminal back ground. Then they check if you have a CCW. If you have one then they know you have guns. The law reads if you have guns and a restraining orded. The county Sheriff come and gets your guns. Wheather the accusations are true or not. Standard proceedure. This neighbor painted such a bad picture that the Thurston County Sheriff showed up with back up. When my friend answered the door in his wheel chair the cop started laughing and told him why he had back up. I am not sure about any guns but I do know that the Sheriff asked for his CCW which he coughed up. The worst part about all this is now my friend so far has spent 3K on a lawyer to fight the restraining order. You can be prosecuted for filling a fals report to obtain a restraining order with jail time. But if somebody files one against you, it will cost money to prove them wrong. It's honestly scarey to think anybody could file one for any reason without proof. The key is the restraining order. Sombody can file complaints against you with various departments but when the restraining order is included it's game over. Just some food for thought when life deals you a turd of a hand and you try and make things right and people do this stuff.