Newsom To Use Texas Abortion Decision To Go After Guns

If you thought that the defeat of the recall of California Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn't have ramifications, think again.

Now he's trying to use a Texas abortion law decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to go after people's guns and gun rights.

From Fox News:

In responding to the U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing the Texas abortion ban to stay in place, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Saturday said he plans to propose a gun control law that would be modeled on the Texas one.

Newsom said the Supreme Court’s decision has set a precedent that will allow states to avoid federal courts when enacting laws. 

The Texas law allows private citizens to sue anyone who helps a woman get an abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected. 

"I am outraged by yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place," Newsom wrote in a statement Saturday. "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."

Now, he's working with the state's attorney general and legislature to draft a bill that would allow private citizens to sue those who manufacture, distribute or sell an assault weapon or ghost gun kit.

He fails to recognize that gun ownership is a constitutional right, abortion isn't.

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