California to allow private lawsuits against gun ban violators in swipe at Texas law

MSN ^ | July 21 | Sharon Bernstein

[dennisw]

TO: California Governor Gavin Newsom in Los Angeles SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday signed a law that would allow private citizens to sue people who sell, manufacture or distribute assault weapons and guns made at home to avoid tracing.

The law is a swipe at a Texas law that allows individuals to sue anyone who helps a woman obtain an illegal abortion in the state.

Newsom, a Democrat who has been mentioned as a possible presidential contender, signed the California legislation on the same day he released an ad in Texas criticizing the state's reproductive rights policies.

"If Texas is going to use this legal framework to essentially outlaw abortion and harm women, all with the Supreme Court’s blessing, California is going to use it to save lives and take AR-15s off our streets,” said State Senator Robert Hertzberg, a Democrat who co-authored the bill.

Newsom has pushed for the law since last year, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Texas law allowing the vigilante-style lawsuits.

"Our message to the criminals spreading illegal weapons in California is simple: you have no safe harbor here in the Golden State," Newsom, who signed the bill in Santa Monica, said in a news release. "California will use every tool at its disposal to save lives, especially in the face of an increasingly extreme Supreme Court.”

In the ad placed in Texas newspapers, Newsom showed an anti-abortion quote by Republican Governor Greg Abbott that said abortion cost children their "right to life."

Newsom replaced the word abortion with phrase "gun violence," changing the meaning of the quote to assert that gun violence was killing children rather than abortion.

He said new California legislation was the state's answer to "Texas' perverse bill that placed bounties on doctors and patients."

[dennisw]

 

Guv hair gel hath spoken. This pos looks direct out of the "They Live" movie.

[kosciusko51]

It is past time for a national divorce...

[Reno89519]

So we can sue gang-bangers? Maybe the prosecutors for letting them out? Maybe judges?

[Disambiguator]

That’s because he is one of “them.”

[Antihero101607]

𝘎𝘶𝘷 𝘩𝘢𝘪𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘭 𝘩𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘰𝘴 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦” 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦.

Interesting you should say that, I’ve always thought that there’s something about Maxine Waters that reminded me of the aliens in that movie. I can kind of see it with Gavin Newsome now.

[Seruzawa]

You cant sue companies in other States if they won’t let you.

[TigersEye]

Sounds like the Gov. and legislature of CA are using their instruments of governance as a substitute for a twitter account.

Apparently they feel too inadequate to go on twitter itself to express their feelings.

Leftist fragility.

[EEGator]

Best wrestling fight in a movie...

[Ex gun maker.]

Ignoring Fed. law?
So now we will be able to sue Tesla when they are involved in drunk driver crashes?

[JD_UTDallas]

“You cant sue companies in other States if they won’t let you.”

You can sue.a company incorporated or headquartered in another state if they meet one of two criteria in the state initiating the litigation. One have a business presence in the litigious state no matter how small a physical presence. Two have a substantial business income sourced in the litigious state. As in do you mail order or internet ship into that state. This is well established legal.precedence used for tax code enforcement at the state and federal levels. California is using the what is good for the goose is good for the gander legal establishment. The USSC upheld a nearly identical law at the Federal level so California is on fairly strong standing. It already is a state jail felony on California to import “assault weapons” you have to go through a California based FFL this applies to individuals who travel out of state and returns with an prohibited weapon get caught in California with that imported weapon and they will put you in state jail for it. The USSC has not stopped California in that regard yet so they will keep doing it till they have an injunction against them.

[CIB-173RDABN]

California is a one party state (with a lap dog media) they can pass any crazy legislation they can think of without any opposition. There are no check and balances in California.

If the Constitution prohibits you from doing what you want, turn it over to the BROWN SHIRTS they will carry out your orders.

https://www.historyhit.com/hitlers-bullyboys-the-role-of-the-sa-in-nazi-germany/

[Scrambler Bob]

This is to sue the person who made, sold, etc., not the originating company.

[Manly Warrior]

As long as the issue is included in the Lawful trade in Arms fedlaw, does anyone in state civil court have a leg to stand on? An illegal (sic) weapon per CA law is another thing.

Would be interesting to know.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Has already happened. He and others like him in places like that have already made their move.