A Reddit user said the part that stuck with him most was not only the moment he drew on a trespasser. It was everything that came after. According to his post, a man came onto his property, the situation escalated enough that he felt he had to draw, and then the trespasser left. But instead of the story ending there, the other man called 911 first and, in the poster’s telling, lied about what had happened.
He wrote that police responded treating him like the aggressor. From the way he described it, the consequences hit hard and fast. He said he was arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor accusations, his bail was set at more than $100,000, and officers served him with a red flag order. He also said police took his guns and searched his house. So in his version of events, a confrontation that started with someone trespassing on his property turned into him getting hauled into the system while the man he had drawn on walked away.
The post did not read like a guy retelling a close call and moving on. It read like someone still stunned by how badly the aftermath had gone. He said the charges hung over him while the red flag order stripped him of his firearms, and he described waiting on the legal process like his whole life had been flipped upside down by one call to police from the other side. The worst part, from his perspective, was that all of it started after he defended himself on his own property and then lost control of the story the moment officers showed up.
Then came the update that changed things again. He wrote later that the district attorney refused charges and police had to void the arrest and convert it to a detention instead. He also said the red flag order was eventually allowed to expire without extension. After that, he got notice from the DOJ about getting at least one of the seized firearms back. But even with that turnaround, the post made clear that he had already lived through the arrest, the seizure, and the raid before any of it was corrected.
So the story he told was not just about drawing on a trespasser. It was about drawing, having the trespasser call first, getting hit with felony accusations, being red-flagged, losing access to his guns, and then only later learning the DA would not move forward. In his telling, the most shocking part was how quickly a property confrontation turned into him being treated like the criminal before the dust ever settled.
What do you think — if you drew on a trespasser on your own property and he called 911 first, would you expect the truth to sort itself out quickly, or worry right away that the whole thing could flip on you?
Original Reddit post: Had to draw my weapon on my own property – got arrested and red flagged
