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https://conservativebrief.com/newsom-56304/?utm_source=CB&utm_medium=DJDNewsom Wants Bill Mirroring Texas Abortion Law to Go After Assault Weapons, Ghost Guns
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling on his party’s legislative super-majority to pass a bill similar to a restrictive abortion law in Texas, only he wants it to apply to so-called “assault weapons” and “ghost guns.”
The Washington Examiner reports:
The Democrat made the announcement Saturday evening, citing the Supreme Court decision Friday not to block the Texas law while it allows abortion providers to proceed with their lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a ban on most abortions after six weeks of gestation.
“I am outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place, and largely endorsing Texas’s scheme to insulate its law from the fundamental protections of Roe v. Wade,” Newsom said.
“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 added.
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.
If TX can ban abortion and endanger lives, CA can ban deadly weapons of war and save lives. https://t.co/N5Iur9PEUZ
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) December 12, 2021
The Examiner added:
Under TX S.B. 8 , abortions are prohibited after a fetal heartbeat is detected, usually around six weeks, and makes no exceptions for rape or incest. The Texas law allow individuals to bring a civil action against anyone who performs or “aids or abets” a prohibited abortion. Successful plaintiffs get at least $10,000 and legal fees reimbursed , details which are matched in the California governor’s proposal.
Newsom announced that he has instructed the gubernatorial staff to work with the state lawmakers as well as the attorney general to create a bill that would “would create a right of action allowing private citizens to seek injunctive relief, and statutory damages of at least $10,000 per violation plus costs and attorney’s fees, against anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts in the State of California.”
Organizations are already lining up to oppose Newsom’s law, including one group that actually opposed the Texas abortion measure, but for an entirely logical reason.
“The Firearms Policy Coalition, a California-based nonprofit group, filed an amicus brief in support of the abortion providers in their suit against the Texas law, warning that the state’s ‘scheme’ would “serve as a model for deterring and suppressing the exercise of numerous constitutional rights,” including those enshrined under the Second Amendment,” the Examiner reported.
The group is coming off a victory in California in June after a federal judge overturned the Golden State’s long-running ban on so-called “assault” weapons, though a federal appeals court has put the lower court ruling on hold pending further litigation.
The organization noted in a statement that it is preparing to go to battle against Newsom’s measure if it winds up passing — and in California with gun-hating Democrats in charge at all levels, it likely will.
“If Gavin Newsom wants to play a game of constitutional chicken, we will prevail,” the group said, with the Examiner explaining:
Ghost guns are made with 3D-printers or with the help of kits and typically lack any serial number, making them hard to trace. After President Joe Biden previewed a crackdown on ghost guns in April, his administration proposed restrictions , which California Attorney General Rob Bonta said he supports.
“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,” Newsom added.
In June, U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego ruled on the rifle ban: “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.
“Yet, the State of California makes it a crime to have an AR15 type rifle,” he continued. “Therefore, this Court declares the California statutes to be unconstitutional.
“Government is not free to impose its own new policy choices on American citizens where Constitutional rights are concerned,” he said.
