Posted September 13, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The House of Representatives is going to keep passing gun control bills until the Democrats no longer control it. Regardless of what legislators and candidates may say, they’re going to continue to nibble away at our gun rights as much as they can for as long as they can.

One of the measures they recently passed was their red flag bill.

However, as Reason notes, it’s completely awful.

This week the House Judiciary Committee approved the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. The legislation would provide grants to encourage the passage and enforcement of “red flag” laws, which are supposed to prevent people from possessing firearms when they are deemed a threat to themselves or others. The bill’s standards for grant eligibility vividly illustrate the due process issues raised by such laws. Far from encouraging states to include robust due process protections, the bill would encourage them to slap together the weakest elements of the existing statutes.

The original version of the bill, which was introduced by Rep. Salud Carbajal (D–Calif.) in February, included very loose criteria for red flag laws. An amendment by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D–N.Y.) made the bill even more permissive.

In Nadler’s …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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