(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) Attorney General Merrick Garland’s Department of Justice is using federal funds to bribe states into passing red flag gun laws, according to the 2A group Gun Owners of America.
Using funds from the bipartisan bill passed in the summer of 2022, the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” feds are using tax dollars to bribe state legislatures into writing and passing state-level red flag laws.
Even still, under the act, states would have to meet certain due process criteria in order to receive the federal funding set aside by the act. Nonetheless, Garland’s DOJ has not gotten bogged down in such details as it doles out cash.
According to Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Ky., and Congressman Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., the DOJ, which has been weaponized itself, has now “weaponized” Congress’s federal bribing act.
“The Department of Justice appears to have weaponized the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to illegally fund ineligible red flag laws and bribe pro-gun states into passing gun confiscation laws,” they wrote in a joint statement.
The duo also noted that the DOJ has ignored the BSC Act’s due-process requirements in order to ram through gun restrictions across the country,
“Since the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, no states have revised their statutes to comply with the ‘due process’ requirements imposed by the 117th Congress,” they continued.
“Nevertheless, the Bureau of Justice Programs has funded every state that applied with a ‘red flag’ gun confiscation law on the books without enforcing Congress’ ‘due process’ requirements. The federal government should have no part in funding state level gun confiscation programs which violate the due process rights of gun owners.”
Unfortunately for Americans who support gun rights, even red states like Montana have accepted and partnered with the what the lawmakers called a “federal bribery program,” and passed their own red flag laws.
