James Munford: The Gun Grabbing Judge

James Munford: The Gun Grabbing Judge

By

James Scott Trimm

When liberals cannot win at the ballot box through legislation, they turn to judicial activist judges to legislate from the bench and shove their liberal agenda down our throats!  This is exactly what is taking place today with the Second Amendment. 

For example in a recent 4th Circuit case, U.S. v. Robinson, the court ruled that the police may legally frisk anyone whom they suspect is carrying a gun, and they can do so just because he is suspected of carrying a gun. In effect the court ruled exercising your Second Amendment rights is itself giving the state “reasonable” suspicion.  “Individuals who elect to carry firearms,” wrote the concurring Judge James A. Wynn Jr., must “forego other constitutional rights…”

This is the new strategy; leverage other rights against the Second Amendment until these other rights virtually eclipse the right to bear arms. 

This is what happened in a case in an Illinois Family Court in 2015.  The Family Court placed a condition on a father’s custody request that no firearms were to be kept in his home until his daughter became a legal adult.  The clause was struck from the orders by the appeals court, but the appeals court carefully avoided doing so on Constitutional grounds, finding another reason to reverse the lower court without ruling its act unconstitutional.

So you might think that this kind of ruling would only come out of a liberal court in a crazy gun control happy blue state like Chicago.  But this is happening right here in Texas.

With gun rights heroes like Jonathan Stickland and Matt Krause representing parts of Tarrant County in the legislature, you certainly would not expect this kind of ruling to come out of a Tarrant County Court. 

However Tarrant County is unfortunately also the home to James Munford, the Gun Grabbing Judge.  Munford is the Associate Judge of the 322^nd Family Court.  Each Family in Tarrant County has an elected District Court Judge, and an appointed Associate Judge.  This blogger has obtained a court order which Associate Judge Munford signed in 2009 “grabbing” Tarrant County gun owner and father Michael Keith Ives guns:

“…the Father is not to have in his possession or control a firearm and he is placed on notice that he is not to have in his possession any firearm until such time as the injunction is resolved.  The firearms may be delivered to a third party for storage such as the paternal grandparent.”

Ives only crime was being both a father, and a gun owner.  He was not accused of threatening anyone, or doing anything inappropriate with his guns, yet Gun Grabbing Munford was effectively stripping Ives of his second amendment rights!

Gun Grabbing Judge Munford has the nerve to campaign at a gun show!

This is the kind of Gun Grabbing judicial activism we have come to expect to come out of an Illinois court, not a Texas Court, and especially not one in Tarrant County!  But Gun Grabbing Munford has been ahead of the liberal curve!

This provision of the order, which originated in Munford’s Court, was carried forward by Nancy Berger, the District Court Judge for his Court, into what was to become the permanent orders.  Only when the NRA began backing Ives’ effort to fight the order did the Court back down and remove Munford’s Gun Grabbing provision from it!

You might have thought that such liberal nonsense would only come from a Democrat.  But not so, Associate Judge James Munford is a Gun Grabbing judicial activist, legislating from the bench against a parent’s right to bear arms.  Munford does not uphold the Constitution, he replaces it with his own liberal Gun Grabbing agenda!

Yet Gun Grabbing Munford actually has the nerve to campaign at gun events as if he is a friend to gun owners!  Do not be fooled by this Gun Grabbing judge!

Now this Gun Grabbing Associate Judge is running to become the District Court Judge of the 322nd Family Court!