In response to recent attacks from Democrat lawmakers and governors retaliating against the 2024 election results by threatening the Second Amendment rights of their constituents, new legislation has been filed in the great state of Texas that, if passed, will prohibit the recognition, service and enforcement of “red flag” orders. This epic pro-Second Amendment legislation takes things a necessary step further, providing real consequences for anyone in violation.
House Bill 162, the “Anti-Red Flag Act” by State Representative Briscoe Cain (R-Deer Park), not only blocks state and local entities from recognizing and enforcing extreme risk protective orders commonly referred to as red flag laws, but strikes at the federal incentivizing agenda to enact them.
Red flag laws brazenly violate the Constitutional right to due process, as law enforcement, per a judge’s order, may use them to confiscate firearms from anyone they believe or are reported to be at risk of committing a crime. These actions occur without trial or warning, posing additional danger as authorities arrive at your home one day and tell you they’re taking all your means of self-defense. You can see where such a confrontation may lead.
Further, red flag laws do not require a court to allow the subject to speak on their behalf, confront their accuser, or respond in any way before the confiscation of their property, a draconian process only fit for a fascist regime. Abuse of these measures is also a major concern, as red flag laws may be used to exact revenge or further a vendetta without repercussion for those making false reports.
HB 162 will prohibit state and local entities from “adopting or enforcing any measure that would implement red flag orders unless expressly authorized by Texas law,” and renders any federal red flag laws that violate due process unenforceable. The bill also prohibits Texas entities from accepting federal grants, i.e. bribes, to implement or enforce federal red flag laws. Perhaps most notable, HB 162 makes it a felony punishable by state jail time for “individuals who serve or attempt to serve a red flag order within Texas unless the order was issued under Texas law.”
“Texas stands strong in defending the rights of our citizens, especially regarding our constitutional Second Amendment rights… HB 162 is critical in protecting Texans from federal overreach and ensuring that due process is respected regarding firearm ownership… This bill is a clear message that Texas will not bow to federal overreach and will always protect the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution… HB 162 is about standing up for the constitutional rights of Texans, ensuring that citizens are not stripped of their rights without due process,” said Briscoe Cain, sounding exactly like a representative of their constituents should.
Chris McNutt, the president of Texas Gun Rights, says he is happy to partner with Cain to protect the Second Amendment rights of all Texans.
“We’re glad to partner with Rep. Cain in the fight to make sure law-abiding Texans never lose their gun rights without due process or a crime being committed, and this bill is critical for ensuring backdoor federal funding for gun confiscation can’t be accepted in the Lone Star State, ” said McNutt.
I have never lived in Texas but have always deeply respected the state’s traditional values and adherence to the Constitution of the United States of America. Texas has had to deal with an influx of leftists, however, who have flocked like locusts from their own ruined states to places like Austin and other parts of the state where they will attempt to eat up the resources and try once again to enact all the policies that caused their previous enclaves to turn undesirable. We have a word for doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result. Insanity. It is great, however, to see representatives like Briscoe Cain and many others in states across the country standing up for the people who elected them to office in the first place, and these are the individuals we need to support with our votes every election cycle. I’ll give one thing to the rabid leftists, they either have a whole lot of intestinal fortitude or are equally stupid enough to take this fight to Texas, but likely the latter.
You’d think the 4th and 5th Amendments would be enough.
I mean they should be, but it’s a sad day when they aren’t anymore.
Well said.
They are enough. But only if all participants love their country.
But we have people in all parties who do NOT love their country. So now they try to turn our country into an open sewer. They have corrupted the education system to train new generations to believe that it’s okay to invent their own meanings for words.
And we did not fight them. We’re STILL not fighting them. We complain that the wording of the amendments should be good enough.
But it’s obviously NOT good enough.
We have a lot of work to do.
It has always been my contention that there must never be any restrictions upon the right to keep and bear arms. So aside from the problematic due process issues and how the heck do you know how many guns a guy has, or where, or what stops him from getting more; if we as a society – through full due process – deem someone so dangerous as to not be trusted with a gun – why do we allow that person amongst us in the first place?
My state doesn’t allow people to possess a knife, taser, baton, gun, or any other method of self-defense outside the home without a CCW permit. I get jealous whenever I see people post photos of their EDC knives, because any EDC knife is a felony here in the not-so-great People’s Republic of New Jersey, even if you just keep it in your car’s glove compartment!
New Jersey, under fat Chris Christie, sat on Carole Brown’s permit request for a firearm. New Jersey is supposed to approve requests within 30 days.
Over 60 days had passed when Carole’s violent ex murdered her on her driveway one night when she got home from work.
She already had a restraining order out on the dirtbag. And she ALREADY HAD THE GUN. But she was a law-abiding citizen, and she kept her gun in her house, rather than carry it on her person illegally.
Fat lot of good it did her there, while she bled out on her driveway.
Chris Christie made New Jersey suck out loud. I’m still waiting for evidence that the citizens are turning things around. Maybe you have an inside track on that knowledge; I sure won’t go there to do a “man on the street” report.
Who knows, maybe the dirtbag ex is out now and living in sunny LA.
As a bit of sarcastic wit, but not really – If you take away someone’s guns because of a Red Flag issue – Shouldn’t you give them to all the people around him who fear his actions instead of locking them up in some storage room?
Great idea. That won’t leave open the possibility that anti 2A people will swat the gun owner in the neighborhood, acquire his guns under a red flag law, then go over and pay him a “friendly visit”.
A Suspect Has Been Detained in the Healthcare CEO Murder Case.
” A man in Altoona, Pennsylvania, was stopped with a fake New Jersey ID and is being held for questioning in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
The man had walked into a McDonald’s where a witness recognized him from the images circulated by police, sources said.
The man had a similar gun to the one used in Wednesday’s assassination-style killing outside a Midtown Manhattan hotel, the sources said. Altoona police also recovered a computer.”
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(note: Now, if only every victim of a crime was as well connected and wealthy as the CEO was and ya’ll jumped on it like you jumped on this …)
Meet the Ivy League Suspect in the NYC Assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Douchebag John Roberts (Fox News) and Joe Cardinale Retired NYPD Lieutenant Ass wipe show their ignorance about ghost guns. Fucking Assholes.
Sadly, the damage is done. The Red states who would likely have interpreted “red flag” laws with some degree of responsibility, were likely not to be a problem.
The blue states will use “red flag” laws to confiscate firearms wherever possible.
Something is fishy about that United Health Care workers murder.
The system certainly did come up with a lot of pictures of the suspect and his whereabouts.
Similar to the Boston marathon bombing.
So strange the system can find these guys so fast yet never does a liquor store robbery
or gangland shooting get resolved, mask or no mask.
I agree. There is definitely a rotten fish in Denmark here.
“I agree. There is definitely a rotten fish in Denmark here.”
People magazine just released a note that the suspect was identified as being in a McDonald’s, at night, and an employee found him “suspicious”.
Ever been to McDonalds at night. Exactly what is “suspcious” behaivor in a McDonalds at night?
Sitting quietly working on a laptop instead harassing the other customers I suspect.
I used to do that in Perkins, Denney’s, Ihop, Barnes & Noble, Border Books, and even my local library when I was working on my MS.
Texas, ever hopeful.
Regarding obstructing federal agents, even arresting them, for violating the Second Amendment, flies in the face of the vaunted “supremacy clause”. Defiance of a yet to be enacted federal “Red Flag” law will only use tax money to defend a useless state law. Gotta be something better to do with funding extorted from citizens.
I think the powers that be should come up with a Black Flag law.
Anyone they don’t like they just send the BAFTE over.
Well that was then this is now, hopefully President Trump can do something about Bidens hit squad.
It’s a pretty powerful organization though.
More bullets to the ear?
If I was Trump I would hire my own private security detail.
Seems like the ones Our government is giving doesn’t do a very good job.
Not in security nor in assassinations.
Left wing deception in DC: DC Council Alters Progressive Bill Titles To Evade Scrutiny From Trump, Congress.
“One of the bills, which would establish a group to study reparations proposals for African Americans, was initially titled the “Reparations Foundation Fund and Task Force Establishment Act,” but has since been renamed the “Insurance Database Amendment Act.”
Another bill, originally called the “Advancing the Range of Reproductive Options for Washingtonians Amendment Act,” is now titled, “Insurance Regulation Amendment Act.” The bill would require private insurance companies to pay for vasectomy procedures and services.
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h ttps://freebeacon.com/latest-news/dc-council-alters-progressive-bill-titles-to-evade-scrutiny-from-trump-congress/
“One of the bills up for hearing would have banned the sale of real fur in the district. The other would have made it easier for the D.C. attorney general’s office and Washington, D.C., residents to sue gun makers.”