Texas Gun Rights members stopped this dangerous scheme from taking root in the Lone Star State
The gun confiscation lobby promised “red flag” laws would stop dangerous people.
They promised these laws would save lives.
They promised due process would be protected.
They were wrong.
Again.
A recent California case shows exactly why Texas gun owners fought so hard to ban “Red Flag” Gun Confiscation laws in the Lone Star State.
According to reports, California’s red flag law had already been used before the tragic May 18 attack at a San Diego mosque. But the attack still happened.
That is the dirty secret the gun confiscation lobby does not want Americans to understand:
Red flag laws do not solve the underlying problem.
They do not lock up violent criminals.
They do not guarantee mental health treatment.
They do not stop evil people determined to hurt others.
They simply create a fast-track system for the government to seize firearms — before a person has been convicted of anything, and before he even gets a chance to defend himself in court.
Rights Violated. Danger Unresolved.
In the California case, police reportedly obtained a gun violence restraining order against the father of one of the alleged attackers after he refused a warrantless search of his home.
Read that again.
The father had reportedly already moved firearms out of the home and stored them with a licensed gun dealer.
But because he dared to stand on his Fourth Amendment rights and refuse a warrantless search, he was reportedly targeted with a red flag order anyway.
That is exactly what Texas Gun Rights has warned about for years.
Red flag laws are not just an attack on the Second Amendment.
They are an attack on due process.
They are an attack on the Fourth Amendment.
And they are a weapon for bureaucrats, judges, and anti-gun activists to punish people first and ask questions later.
Meanwhile, the dangerous person is often left walking around.
James O’Keefe Was Red-Flagged Too
This is not some isolated problem.
Investigative journalist James O’Keefe recently had his firearms confiscated in Florida under a court order tied to a personal dispute.
But here’s the kicker: the person who reported James was actually the violent aggressor.
A judge later reversed the firearms prohibition and ordered his guns returned.
But that is the problem.
O’Keefe lost his guns first, then he had to fight to regain them.
Not only that, someone who made credible threats toward him disarmed him.
That is the danger of red flag-style gun confiscation laws.
Yet the gun confiscation lobby calls that “due process.”
Texas Gun Owners Stopped This
Thankfully, Texas gun owners did not sit around waiting for this poison to spread.
Last year, Texas Gun Rights members forced the Legislature to pass the Anti-Red Flag Act, banning the enforcement, recognition, and funding of red flag gun confiscation orders in Texas.
That victory did not happen because politicians woke up one morning and decided to be brave.
It happened because TXGR members flooded the Capitol with calls, emails, petitions, postcards, lobby days, and relentless grassroots pressure.
Gun owners made it clear: No red flag laws. No gun confiscation orders. No surrendering due process to the gun confiscation lobby.
And because TXGR members refused to back down, Texas now has one of the strongest protections in America against red flag-style gun confiscation.
The Fight Is Not Over
The lesson from California and Florida is simple:
Red flag laws fail on both ends.
They violate the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
And they fail to stop dangerous people.
That is why the gun confiscation lobby loves them.
Red flag laws give the Left what it really wants — a mechanism to seize firearms without having to prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt.
Texas rejected that scheme.
But the gun confiscation lobby is not done.
They will keep trying to bring red flag laws back under new names, through federal pressure, grant programs, activist judges, and backdoor bureaucratic schemes.
Texas Gun Rights will be there to stop them.
Chip in today to help Texas Gun Rights keep exposing the gun confiscation lobby, defend Texas’ ban on red flag gun confiscation, and fight every attempt to strip law-abiding Texans of their Second Amendment rights.
