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James O’Keefe explains why he was forced to give up his firearms before getting them back

James O’Keefe, the founder of O’Keefe Media Group and Project Veritas, was temporarily forced this week to surrender his firearms to West Palm Beach authorities.

The reason why stems from a feud between O’Keefe and former Project Veritas board member Matthew Tyrmand.

On March 31, O’Keefe was served with a domestic violence restraining order from Tyrmand, a guy whom O’Keefe has claimed thinks he’s evil and wants to kill him.

“Despite admitting multiple times on hidden camera wanting me dead, Matthew Tyrmand filed a restraining order against ME in Miami Dade County,” O’Keefe reported at the time on X.

Why was Tyrmand so angry with O’Keefe? Because O’Keefe had exposed him in an undercover investigation a month earlier.

“I conducted an investigation into former Project Veritas board member, Matthew Tyrmand, a man who has repeatedly stated that he wants to kill me, ‘eat my heart out,’ and who even fired a bullet through my image on my book Breakthrough,” O’Keefe revealed in a tweet.

“This individual is the same person who forced me out of the company I founded, Project Veritas,” he added.

Fast-forward to Thursday, when, as per Tyrmand’s complaint, O’Keefe was, much to his shock, forced by a judge to surrender his personal firearms to the West Palm Beach Police Department or risk facing contempt charges and jail time.

“Tyrmand filed a complaint against me and one of my undercover reporters in the domestic violence division of Miami-Dade family court, alleging ‘stalking,’” O’Keefe wrote in response on X. “A judge then ordered me to surrender my personal firearms or face contempt of court, which could result in jail time.”

“What precedent does this set for our country if I am forced to surrender my Second Amendment rights for investigating a man who has openly expressed a desire to murder me? Again, we are at a breaking point in our country,” his tweet continued.

The good news is that by Friday, the judge’s order was reversed.

“Mr. O’Keefe you are free to pickup your firearms in West Palm Beach at the Sheriff’s Office,” Judge Marie E. Mato reportedly ruled. “I appreciate your compliance Mr. O’Keefe with this courts order despite your objection. But I’m deleting those provisions [restrictions].”

O’Keefe’s attorney, Benjamin Barr, subsequently spoke to commentator Viva Frei about his client’s experience over the past few days.

“We were on the eve of contempt and needing to comply with an order,” he said. “We had sought emergency relief, but justice sometimes comes very slow. So we turned over the firearms last night, but the judge actually, to her credit today, took time to work through the law.”

“In Florida law, it’s very clear, it’s consistent with what the Supreme Court has said about this. You can’t just deprive people of firearms based on hunches and guesses. If a person’s a real threat to someone else and they’ve made a real threat or they’re engaged in violent activity, then you can use a sort of red flag law that allows people to be disarmed,” he added.

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