Democrats are going on the offensive after the Supreme Court left them an opening.
Now they’ve unveiled one of their worst ideas to come down the pike in some time.
And House Democrats have one awful scheme to disarm millions of law-abiding Americans.
Supreme Court empowers a Democrat gun grab
The Supreme Court issued an 8-1 decision in United States v. Rahimi, dealing a major blow to gun rights. The majority ruled that the government had the right to restrict a citizen’s Second Amendment rights without a criminal conviction or charge. In this case, the defendant had a civil domestic violence restraining order placed on him, which stripped him of his gun rights. Justice Clarence Thomas was the lone vote for the Second Amendment in the case. The Rahimi decision gave the government the green light to strip a citizen’s Second Amendment rights without a criminal charge or conviction.
One of the top agenda ideas for the anti-gun lobby is passing Extreme Risk Protection Order laws, more accurately known as “red flag” gun confiscation laws. This law allows someone to claim that a gun owner is a risk to themselves or others to judge who can have the guns seized with a red flag. Gun owners are stripped of their due process rights and can lose their guns with a trial or criminal conviction. An overzealous Democrat judge can seize firearms based on hearsay. That leaves gun owners with an often expensive, time-consuming, and difficult fight to get their guns and their rights back.
21 states and Washington, D.C. currently have red flag gun confiscation laws. The RINO U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) negotiated bipartisan Safer Communities Act included money to help states with their red flag efforts. And it allowed Attorney General Merrick Garland to establish a federal red flag confiscation center. But fighting back against these unconstitutional laws has become a top priority for gun rights groups at the state level.
House Democrats introduce federal red flag confiscation law
Representatives Salud Carbajal (D-CA) and Lucy McBath(D-GA) announced that they were going to try to use a discharge petition for the Federal Extreme Risk Protection Act. That would allow them to bypass House Republican leadership and bring the bill to the floor for a vote if they can get 218 Representatives to sign off on the effort.
Their bill would empower the federal courts to begin enforcing red-flag gun confiscation laws and create a federal grant program to help states turbocharge their red-flag efforts. This would let Democrats bring red-flag gun confiscation to red states that have refused to pass a state red-flag gun confiscation law.
“Today’s announcement marks the next step in our mission to save as many lives as possible through common-sense policies,” said McBath. “Extreme risk protection orders are already saving lives in Republican and Democratic states, allowing law enforcement and family members to intervene before it’s too late. My bill will expand these protections from coast to coast and give every American another tool to keep their communities safe. Our ‘gun-sense’ Democratic Caucus will continue to pursue every legislative solution we can to save lives.”
A federal red flag confiscation law would set the stage for the biggest gun grab in history. President Joe Biden has called former President Donald Trump and his supporters domestic extremists. Trump supporters are enemies of the state during the Presidency. A Democrat-appointed federal judge could claim that someone is a threat because they’re conservative or they support Trump. The door would be wide open to begin to confiscate the guns of anyone who has the wrong politics without any due process. And it would take an expensive federal court battle to restore constitutional rights.
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