The Stupid Party Surrenders Again, This Time on Guns – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

There are two major policy problems with this, plus a structural one.

The structural one is that nothing in here should be the federal government s responsibility. The feds will now be bribing states to pass the most restrictive red flag laws imaginable, something which is an abuse of federalism which has never worked properly in the past, and all of these other items the background checks, further restrictions on gun dealers, mental health stuff and so on is all the proper province of state governments. Republicans working with Democrats to let the federal government restrain trade in legal merchandise, even if it s something icky like a rifle, is a monumentally bad precedent.

via spectator.org

Red flag laws. What a concept. Such potential for growth!