Posted on 12/12/2021 8:29:56 AM PST by SCConservative58
California governor Gavin Newsom (D.) is strategizing to use the enforcement mechanism of a recently enacted Texas abortion law, which the Supreme Court allowed to survive on Friday, to curb the sale and circulation of “assault weapons” in the state.
On Saturday, Newsom said in a press release that the governor’s office would work with the legislature and attorney general to create a bill that would empower private citizens to sue for at least $10,000 “anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California.”
“If the most efficient way to keep these devastating weapons off our streets is to add the threat of private lawsuits, we should do just that,” he noted.
In June, a federal judge reversed a ban on the manufacture and sale of certain “assault weapons” in California, arguing it was unconstitutional and triggering the outrage of anti-gun advocates when he said an AR-15 rifle was “good for both home and battle.”
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Email Address Newsom’s statement came after the Supreme Court allowed Texas’s heartbeat law, which prohibits abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, to remain in effect, although it also allowed legal challenges against it to proceed in court. That measure includes a novel provision, which Newsom’s gun initiative takes influence from, that leaves enforcement to private individuals rather that state officials to sue medical practitioners who perform and those who aid or abet an abortion.
“But if states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army Knives, then California will use that authority to protect people’s lives, where Texas used it to put women in harm’s way,” Newsom said Saturday.
“SCOTUS is letting private citizens in Texas sue to stop abortion?! If that’s the precedent then we’ll let Californians sue those who put ghost guns and assault weapons on our streets,” Newsom said in a different tweet Saturday.
His latest foray into the liberal anti-gun insanity is like enacting legislation to ban all forks because a very small percentage of the population uses them to get morbidly obese and die prematurely from the consequences of morbid obesity.
Maybe he’ll rename the bullet train.
California is off the rails in general and it’s not coming back until it gets rid of the commies in power. That probably isn’t going to happen, too many brainwashed people.
The greasy bastrid considers himself some sort of fop monarch. Which works as long as he restricts his imperial edicts to the wholly corrupt state of California.
The second he steps across the border - and I’m convinced the rat party has plans for him at the federal level - he’ll go the way of Robert Francis O’Rourke.
All of this gun control insanity really has little to do with the actual firearms themself but is a broad stroke attempt to disarm the country much like Hitler and Stalin did, so the people could not rise up against tyranny. The left has shown their hand, not it is time to put an end to their tyranny once and for all.
Number of people no longer matter — if they ever did.
The so-called recall was just more election fraud. Just the week before a convicted felon was caught in his car with drugs, a loaded gun (illegal in state) and 300 ballots.
He was released within 24 hours on own recognizance.
This inspires you to believe any election in this country?
Newsom has always been and will always be, the Turd in the Punchbowl.
Yeah, like I wrote, Cali is probably a lost state for good.
He is the poster child for just how completely skewed to the left and utterly stuck on stupid the Socialist Republik of Kalifornicate has become. That state is completely and irretrievably lost, there is no fixing that kind of stupid.
Buy a gun this week. buy two. Power it with American made ammo.
When is he going to finally remove his head from his rectum and wake up...
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I’m assuming that’s a rhetorical question.
Banning guns is not about or intended to prevent violent crime or save lives anymore than the COVID vax is about public health, stopping the spread, providing immunity, saving lives or eradicating a cc iris.
It’s about forcing us to submit and be entirely dependent on and obedient to government control.
Lost on gun haters in California is abortion is NOT mentioned in the constitution while firearms are specified in the Second Amendment to the constitution as being a RIGHT of people to possess.
The Texas abortion law is NOT AT ALL equivalent to anti-gun laws of California.
cc iris = virus.
D’oh!
Whereas abortion requires intervention in order to prevent death.
Considering that the people didn’t recall him when he went all marxist on them, I think you are right. If anyone should have been recalled. It was him and Gretchen. Both states I think are lost
[[Banning guns is not about or intended to prevent violent crime]]
Exactly, it’s about turning this country into Australia. Dictators like Newsom view what Australia is doing and they drool at the prospects of a disarmed society
Yep.
The Satanic psychopaths “in charge” want We The People as powerless and defenseless as the Australian people.
They know they can crush anyone in their way if their opposition is totally disarmed.
My understanding of the Texas law is that you have to have been related in someway with the person who had the abortion to bring the lawsuit.
Certainly the Texas law doesn’t allow them to sue medical tool companies from making scapels and suction devices that are used for abortion. Just the people PERFORMING THEM.
If you don’t know what an “assault weapon” is, no worries. Please refer to this handy chart. All are assault weapons.
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