Vice President Kamala Harris will shuttle to Florida on Saturday the place she’s going to tout a Biden management effort to offer “training and technical assistance” to people “responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
The new program drew fast backlash from some Republicans who referred to as the hassle a “massive Red Flag Operation.”
The National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center, in step with a Saturday Department of Justice press free up, will particularly supply help to cops, prosecutors, lawyers, judges, clinicians, sufferer provider and social provider suppliers, neighborhood organizations and behavioral well being execs.
“ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order,” DOJ famous.
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President Biden listens to Vice President Kamala Harris throughout an tournament within the East Room of the White House on February 23, 2024, in Washington, D.C. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
During her talk over with to Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the place 17 folks had been killed in a February 2018 mass capturing, Harris is predicted to introduce the hassle and phone “on states to pass red flag laws” and use federal investment to put into effect present regulations, in step with the White House.
Attorney General Merrick Garland stated in a commentary that the hassle will supply “valuable resources” to these searching for to stay firearms out of the arms of the ones deemed a risk to themselves and others.
“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” Garland stated. “The establishment of the Center is the lates t example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.”
Attorney General Merrick Garland stated in a commentary the hassle will supply “valuable resources” to these searching for to stay firearms out of the arms of the ones deemed a risk to themselves and others. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Through the useful resource heart and its site, the Justice Department famous that “states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers will have direct access to critical information that will enhance their ability to reduce firearm homicides and suicides.”
“The website will be maintained and updated to include newly developed resources for the field created through the Center, in partnership with [the Bureau of Justice Assistance],” the DOJ stated. “The website also provides a platform for the Center to highlight emerging and promising practices in successful ERPO implementation and connect states and localities to innovative strategies to reduce gun violence and save lives.”
The introduction of the useful resource operation briefly drew the ire of a few House Republicans who blasted the hassle as a “Federal Red Flag center” that the DOJ will use to “violate” the Second Amendment rights of Americans.
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“What the hell is this evil? A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes,” Kentucky GOP Rep. Thomas Massie wrote in a publish to X.
Echoing Massie, Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene expressed worry in a publish on social media over how the hassle may well be used to focus on sure Americans.
“Merrick Garland just announced a massive Red Flag Operation that the DOJ will be running by using EVERY spy tool the US government has in order to violate American’s Second Amendment!! This comes right after Johnson fully funded Biden’s weaponized DOJ!” Greene wrote on X.
Greene’s remark at the effort comes sooner or later after she filed a movement to vacate Johnson, accusing him of getting “betrayed” the “confidence” of the House GOP Conference by means of ushering via a $1.2 trillion federal investment invoice to steer clear of a partial govt shutdown.
The Biden management has been steadfast in its undertaking to put into effect various gun keep watch over measures since President Biden took place of business in 2021.
During the president’s State of the Union cope with previous this month, Biden referred to as out the National Rifle Association and demanded strict gun keep watch over measures, similar to banning so-called attack guns.
The DOJ effort briefly drew the ire of a few House Republicans, together with GOP Reps. Thomas Massie and Marjorie Taylor Greene, who blasted the hassle as a “Federal Red Flag center.” (Getty Images)
“I’m proud we beat the NRA when I signed [the] most significant gun safety law in nearly 30 years because of this Congress. We now must beat the NRA again. I’m demanding a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Pass universal background checks,” Biden stated on the time.
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“None of this — none of this — I taught the Second Amendment for 12 years. None of this violates the Second Amendment or vilifies responsible gun owners,” he persevered.
The DOJ didn’t straight away reply to Fox News Digital’s request for remark in regards to the ERPO effort.
Fox News’ Emma Colton and Elizabeth Elkind contributed to this file.
