Exercising the Right
Feds Promote Red Flag Laws
The U.S. Department of Justice announced on March 23 that it established what it calls a “National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center,” which it claims 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.”
To paraphrase Newton’s third law, every political action can cause an equal and opposite reaction. Fox8.com reported on April 11 that 19 state attorneys general (AGs) sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland criticizing the ERPO Resource Center as a threat to the Second Amendment.
The letter pulled no punches when it took the Biden administration to task for using “a program that pushes for the more aggressive use of so-called ‘red flag’ gun laws.” The AGs claimed that the ERPO center will hide “under your Department’s umbrella” while it “aids officials in stripping Second Amendment rights using anti-gun laws in certain localities that allow for the seizure of firearms via civil proceedings.”
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