[Townhall] On Wednesday, the American Medical Association approved an expansive list of "common-sense" demands for new gun control measures, including proposals to ban the sale and possession of "all assault-type weapons, bump stocks and related devices, high-capacity magazines, and armor piercing bullets." These gun control guidelines were approved by the AMA’s House of Delegates, a forum of the medical organization’s member physicians that meets twice a year to vote on medical and political policy recommendations.The lengthy list of gun policy changes also includes bans on the sale of firearms and ammunition to those under 21 years of age, prohibitions on the ownership and unsupervised use of firearms by those under 21, and the establishment of a national gun registry for all firearms and a gun licensing system for gun owners.
Additionally, the AMA’s list of gun control proposals contains several measures that are reportedly intended to combat domestic violence, including a proposition to create a new legal procedure by which "family members, intimate partners, household members and law enforcement personnel" can petition courts to confiscate firearms from people "when there is a high or imminent risk for violence." Based on the AMA’s official blog post about their gun control proposals, this gun confiscation procedure does not appear to involve typical due process legal rights where the gun owner in question can defend himself or herself in court, nor is there any explicit definition for how "risk for violence" would be determined by a judge, leaving open the possibility that people without criminal convictions could be subject to having their guns taken away.