The State of California is blocked from enforcing a gun control scheme this week, with a judge, calling it an “abomination.”
Recently a federal judge blocked California from implementing the said mandate which was reportedly modeled after a controversial law in Texas, giving California Gov. Gavin Newsom the exact decision he wanted.
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California released a permanent injunction against the “fee-shifting” provisions of California’s gun law, declaring it unconstitutional.
Reports revealed that the scheme was meant to empower private citizens to file lawsuits against gun manufacturers.
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In his opinion, Judge Benitez claimed that “it is cynical. It is an abomination. It is outrageous and objectionable,” adding that there is “no dispute that it raises serious constitutional questions. It is an unprecedented attempt to thwart judicial review,” quoting directly from the Democratic governor’s criticisms of the Texas abortion law.
In a report released by Fox News, it was revealed that “The Texas measure makes abortions illegal after a fetal heartbeat can be detected and permits private citizens to sue abortion providers or anyone else who assists in a woman’s procurement of abortion for $10,000.”
The report also explained that “this fee-shifting mechanism was designed to protect the 2021 law from judicial review to circumvent the Supreme Court’s old abortion precedent in Roe v. Wade. The high court has since overturned that precedent, permitting states to restrict, or liberalize, abortion.”
The recent federal judge decision came after Newsom asked the California legislature to make a similar legislative act for gun days following the ruling of the Supreme Court remaining the Texas heartbeat law in effect after a legal challenge.
According to the Democrat, the gun law would authorize citizens to sue gun manufacturers who make “assault weapons and ghost guns” for $10,000.
The California governor also claimed that the law is virtually the same as the provisions in Texas.
However, Benitez claimed that “California’s law goes even further,” emphasizing that only the California measure “applies to laws affecting a clearly enumerated constitutional right set forth in our nation’s founding documents.”
