In a series of moves against the Second Amendment
The Biden regime launches a national “resource center” to aid authorities in taking firearms from people accuseed of being a “threat to themselves or others”
The Daily Wire trumpets the actions of Joe Biden to grab people’s guns through newly-enacted “red flag” laws.
President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice announced on Saturday the launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center — to the surprise of some congressional Republicans.
Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a Saturday press release that the new national resource center “will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.” Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), commonly referred to as “red flag” laws, allow authorities to confiscate firearms from a person whom a court deems to be a risk to himself or others. ERPOs also prevent a person from buying or possessing a gun for the duration of the order.
“The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence,” Garland said.
The resource center, which was launched with a new website, is described as “a resource for implementers” that will “provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
(Read more at the Daily Wire on this center)
As with Biden’s COVID mandates, this oversteps
Just as Biden overstepped by shutting the nation down for a disease only dangerous to certain segments, Biden has overstepped here. Oddly, when the government did overstep, it then made the mistake of then overexposing those segments who were in government housing by jamming in COVID patients. Whether by design or total ineptitude, Biden got it all wrong.
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Harris urges states to pass red flag laws during Parkland visit
Politico outlines the push by Kamala Harris to tie “red flag” laws to events like the 2018 attack by an expelled student on Parkland High.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday announced new gun safety initiatives from Parkland, Florida, after walking through the old Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building, where 17 people were killed by a gunman in 2018.
The vice president was in the state Saturday to meet with victims’ families and to see the high school, which was preserved as evidence for the shooter’s trial that concluded in late 2022. The building will be demolished this summer.
Harris, who spent hours inside the building on Saturday, walked up to the podium for her remarks as the Parkland families stood behind her holding photos of their late children.
“I will say thank you to the leaders of this community, starting with these families. This school is soon going to be torn down. But the memory of it will never be erased,” Harris said. “And let us through the courage and the call to action of these families find it in ourselves to consider what they’ve been through as some level of motivation and inspiration for all of us.”
The vice president has played a growing role in the administration’s gun safety work and will continue to serve as a leading voice on the issue for the 2024 cycle. President Joe Biden tapped her in the fall to oversee the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention.
She announced on Saturday the launch of the first-ever National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, which will support states in the implementation of red flag laws. The center, funded by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and run by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, will provide training and technical assistance to states and localities.
Harris also made a plea for states across the country to pass red flag laws, and to use the funding from the 2022 gun safety legislation to implement these programs. Twenty-nine states currently don’t have red flag laws. Of the 21 states that do have these laws, only six are using Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Funding to implement them.
(Read more at Politico)
I still believe Reagan: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help. “
There is nothing that the government can do for us that we should not do for ourselves.
Harris had no business in poking a six-year-old scab (any more than the Texas press has a need to still air daily reminders of the Uvalde shooting just over two years ago).
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How is Minnesota’s red flag law being enforced?
CBS affiliate WCCO digs into the liberal propaganda supporting the enforcement of Minnesota’s “red flag” laws.
Minnesota’s “red flag” gun laws went into effect on Jan. 1, and a WCCO Investigation uncovered four cases moving through the courts seeking to remove guns from people who could be a risk to themselves or others.
These legal orders are called extreme risk protection orders.
“The law is fairly clear as it’s written in that we know what we need to prove in court to present these to the judge,” Inspector Elliot Faust, with the Brooklyn Park Police Department, explained to WCCO News. “This order is a tool to try and prevent a tragedy from happening, and we do run into situations where we have information that a tragedy is on the horizon.”
Brooklyn Park’s police chief was the first in Hennepin County to petition the court for a protection order. In a court filing Jan. 11, investigators sought permission to retain possession of a firearm from a man who they said attempted suicide and fired gunshots in his apartment building.
“It’s a multi-family housing building with 200 units,” Faust added. “He’s a risk to himself but he’s also a risk to other people in the building when you fire a gun like that, and there are other people living there.”
The three other cases were from Martin, Steele and Wright counties, with two of three petitions granted, while the third was denied.
(Read more at WCCO)
Taking without a trial? Is this Constitutional?
It would seem that there would need to be a trial for the government to swoop in an take property.
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Michigan governor signs red flag gun law, questions linger over enforcement
PBS “News” likewise shovels the liberal propaganda (all while acknowledging that this may all get overturned by the courts).
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer gave final approval Monday afternoon to a red flag law that aims to keep firearms away from those at risk of harming themselves or others as the state grapples with ways to slow gun violence in the wake of its second mass school shooting.
Michigan joined Minnesota as the second state in under a week to implement a red flag law after Democrats in both states won control of both chambers and the governor’s office in November. New Mexico previously was the last state to pass a red flag law in 2020.
Whitmer signed the legislation just outside of Detroit, flanked by state lawmakers and individuals affected by gun violence. Former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who began campaigning for gun safety after she was shot in the head in 2011, was also in attendance.
“We have heard too many times from those who knew a mass shooter who had expressed concern in advance about that mass shooter’s intentions,” Whitmer said Monday. “With extreme risk protection orders, we have a mechanism to step in and save lives.”
(Read more at PBS)
Will Gretchen Whitmer apply the same standard of protection to abortion clinics?
Will she seek to save lives by taking away what some see as a right? The Second Amendment guarantees the right of self-protection; however, she is willing to strip that.
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This is not just happening in the East: Bill to amend red flag law law heads to New Mexico House floor
NM Political Report pulls out the steam shovel for liberal propaganda in regard to the “red flag” law in consideration in New Mexico.
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill aimed to amend and improve a law regarding extreme risk protection orders, also known as a red flag law, on a 7-4, party-line vote Monday.
The bill would clarify that law enforcement officers could be the reporting party, according to the bill’s sponsor.
HB 27, sponsored by state Rep. Christine Chandler, would amend the Extreme Risk Order Protection Act, which became law in 2020. Chandler said the amendments are necessary because of some impediments to efficiency and ways the new law could be improved upon.
The original law allows immediate family members to seek an extreme risk of firearm protection petition when there are signs of imminent danger of an individual who owns a firearm of hurting themselves or others. Chandler said that since 2020, the law has been used 75 times.
She said that there are differing interpretations as to whether law enforcement and health professionals can file for a petition. The amendments would clarify that.
“Who is authorized to be a reporting party? There is some disagreement and confusion among those relying on the law if law enforcement could be a reporting party,” Chandler said.
The changes include specifying that the protection order would expire in 365 days; adding licensed healthcare professionals to the list of individuals who can request the order; allowing a petitioner to be anyone with “a continuing personal relationship” to the respondent to request an order; expediting the process; and requiring the respondent to request the return of the firearm and allows law enforcement to destroy, sell or transfer an unclaimed firearm after 365 days.
(Read more at NM Political Report)
Taking and then selling unclaimed firearms taken “for the safety” of the people. That makes sense.
It makes sense to take and then sell a gun “for the safety” of the people as much as the other acts of Biden make sense.
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On the other attacks by the Biden regime
Lawfare: it’s not just against President Trump
The Washington Times reports on the weaponizing of the courts by Democrats against President Trump and other political foes of Democrats.
New York Republicans say Attorney General Letitia James’ vendetta against former President Donald Trump is the latest proof that Democrats have turned the state’s courts into a political retribution machine.
They say business owners in New York City and across the state must acquiesce to Democrats’ political agendas and cooperate with the party’s incumbents who control the levers of government.
Mr. Trump has been hit with city and state lawsuits for paying hush money to an adult-film actress in 2016, decades-old sexual assault allegations and business fraud. He did notch a victory Monday when a whopping $464 million bond for the fraud case was slashed to $175 million while he appeals.
“This is a real serious issue. Why would you ever want to do business in New York state? What if they didn’t like the business you’re in?” said Rep. Claudia Tenney, New York Republican.
“Say you’re producing propane for people in upstate New York and they decide they didn’t like you. Are they going to prosecute you and put up a bond that you can’t pay and run you out of business?”
Former Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, a Republican who ran a failed campaign against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, said businesses want to play it safe and not risk being on the “wrong team.”
“[The Democrats] control all the levers of government. They control the permits and the agencies and all that,” he said. “And unlike some other places where they’ll give to both sides, in New York, they’re afraid to do that.
“I had millions of conversations with high-ranking real estate developers and others in the New York business community — probably all of whom wanted me to win and very few of whom donated because they were afraid,” he said.
Critics say beef producer JBS and the National Rifle Association are examples of organizations put through the legal wringer in New York for political reasons.
(Read at the Washington Times for more instances of abuse)
It seemed like this was being set with the IRS being set against the Tea Party groups
When Obama set the IRS against the Tea Party and Patriot groups, we should have seen a foreshadowing of Joe’s actions.
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