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.
The people of California voted to keep him. Why I cannot fathom! This man is a fool.
The people of California voted for Newsom the same way the people of the USA voted for Biden. IMO.
So by overwhelming, do you mean that there are some crimes committed by non-criminals?
Rather your statement should be, 100% of crimes are committed by criminals.
When CW2 is hot, and we have to suppress the Communists in enemy territory, it's easier when they are unarmed.
The question is going to be whether they can be de-programmed.
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.”
All this means is that Nevada gun dealers can do a land-office business selling firearms to visiting Californians. "Buy here, take it home. No making, distribution, or sale in the State of California."
Thank you, Newsom.
I would advocate for the independence of California. Maybe split it into two states actually. Coastal California will become independent with Sacramento, San Francisco and Los Angeles. But we get to keep San Diego (navy base) and Fresno and most of the land with agriculture on it. Inland California would probably be more like Virginia politically.
There is no legitimate comparison between suing someone for terminating the life of a human being through an abortion after 11 weeks by a licensed physician and selling a legally manufactured firearm to a legally qualified person for their own private use. If someone uses a firearm illegally there are already criminal penalties for this in every state. No civil penalties are needed.
Newson is smart enough to understand this so this press release is just a cynical attack on the Texas law to please his lefty donors and get them to fund his presidential ambitions.
This also opens the door to sue Democrats who facilitate vote fraud.
I disagree, there will be some sort of legal warfare legislation passed in California. It may not mirror the Texas law exactly, but this strategy is inline with the existing of the anti-gun playbook. Forcing banks not to do business with gun manufacturers, making manufacturers civilly liable for shootings, etc... They will find some angle to allow lawsuits making manufacturing or ownership or transfers more painful.
Well, lets see...California...
Must be 21 years of age to buy-Check.
Handgun and rifle registration-Check.
Background checks-Check.
Ban on A-s-s-ault rifles.-Check.
Ten day Waiting Periods-Check.
Red Flag law-Check
FBI checks-check.
Only California approved hand guns allowed-Check.
Tax on ammo-Check.
Background check for ammo purchases-Check.
Age limit of 21 for all guns. Check.
Micro-stamping -Check.
Age limit for ammo-Check.
Gun free zone-Check.
Ban on large magazines-Check.
No private individual sales-Check.
No buying out of state and bringing them into California.
https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/what-legal-way-bring-a-firearm-california.htm
So what new scheme and dream will they come up with..
Newsom’s new scheme! But will it cut crime? Don’t bet on it!
“The people of California voted for Newsom the same way the people of the USA voted for Biden. IMO.”
That first and foremost includes cheating and stealing an election.
RKBA is not only a RIGHT. It is absolute. It does not say, “Congress shall mak no law...” It says ,”Shall not be infringed.” Every law now on the books in respect of firearms other than the Kennesaw Georgia gun ordinance is Unconstiutional.
Exactly right. Why would anyone expect a state completely dominated by cheating rats suddenly honor the voters wish to throw out their king rat?
There is already a federal law that prohibits suing the gun shops and manufacturers.
A legal gun owner from another state needs to move into California and sue them to recognize the legal procedure of another state. This is precisely the action the left took to propagate homo marriage throughout the US. A “married” couple in a permissive state moved into a state that did not, the Obergefell case required recognition of this lawful act under the Full Faith and Credit Clause. Likewise, legal gun owners should not have their legal right violated simply because they changed location.
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