West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is leading a 19-state coalition in taking issue with the newly formed National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center—a hub formed by Biden’s Department of Justice to provide “assistance” to enities who implement laws confiscating firearms from those who purportedly pose a threat to themselves or others.
In a simpler term: it’s a program that pushes for the more aggressive use of so-called “red flag” gun laws. The center is a joint effort by the DOJ and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, home of the Center for Gun Violence Solutions.
The Attorney General led a letter, urging U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to rethink the department’s approach.
“How much more obvious can this get: this program is misguided and is nothing more than an infringement of Americans’ Constitutional rights,” Attorney General Morrisey said, writing in the letter that red-flag laws of the sort pushed by the program “empower governmental authorities to suspend fundamental rights under the Second Amendment with no genuine due process—while also stigmatizing persons with mental health issues along the way.”
Attorney General Morrisey said red-flag laws raise questions beyond the Second Amendment, asking “how can officers enter a home and seize a gun without a warrant in a way that’s consistent with the Fourth Amendment? How can ex parte proceedings that lead to firearm seizure be good enough under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments?”
Several Republican lawmakers also blasted the program as an effort to seize guns from law-abiding Americans through unconstitutional means.
Joining Attorney General Morrisey in the letter to Garland are his counterparts in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
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