Tennessee U.S. Representative Tim Burchett (R-TN-02) said the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) new National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center in an “unauthorized attack” on the Second Amendment.
ERPO laws, commonly referred to as Red Flag laws, allow courts to prevent people who are deemed a danger to themselves or to others from having access to firearms.
The timing of this is intentional. This is an UNAUTHORIZED attack on our 2nd Amendment. https://t.co/uNwQCbb47s
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) March 23, 2024
“The timing of this is intentional. This is an UNAUTHORIZED attack on our 2nd Amendment,” Burchett wrote in an X post in response to the DOJ’s announcement post of the program.
The new program, according to the DOJ, will “provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
“Successful and effective ERPO implementation requires a comprehensive and holistic approach that incorporates a wide range of stakeholders. The Center is designed to provide resources consistent with that need,” the DOJ said in a press release.
The program was launched on Saturday after being created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, in partnership with the DOJ and Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), last year.
Attorney General Merrick Garland championed the program, saying it will “protect communities from gun violence” by keeping firearms “out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others.”
Kentucky U.S. Representative Thomas Massie noted how the program was launched hours after the Senate passed the $2.1 trillion minibus spending bill.
“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,” Massie wrote on X.
Across the nation, a total of 21 states and the District of Columbia have enacted ERPO laws, according to the DOJ.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
When I ran for the US Senate in Colorado as a Libertarian in 2001/2002 and kept getting arrested for openly carrying a weapon in many of the 72 cities and towns that had unconstitutional and illegal gun ordinances not allowing the open carry of a weapon in their jurisdictions, even though the Colorado Stae Constitution specifically allowed open carry in all of Colorado. No on cared.
Alternative headline: U.S. Military ignores another domestic enemy of the U.S. Constitution.
Massie….you know what else wasn’t “authorized” by Congress? A Declaration of War everywhere our empire is currently engaged.
As the line in the sand becomes deeper. The $hit hole liberal states will be all on board with this plan to disarm law abiding Americans. This is yet another example of why conservative states need to start banding together, and pass nullification legislation.
If this isn’t enough to demonstrate to Liberals that we have a Totalitarian Government, then they are ignorant & dangerous.
I assume Lawsuits will be going to thr US Supreme Court today.
We have watched millions of military age men cross our borders in every way possible. INVASION.
VICTORIA NULAND & fellow commies launched a terrorist attack in Moscow as her parting gift to Russia.
She knew that would escalate this impossible war in Ukraine. She should be prosecuted for her many crimes when Trump gets reelected. Russia knows who is responsible for this attack & are responding with missiles to Kiev from Crimea that travel at 7000 mph. Victoria’s Secret attempt at catapulting us into WWIII.
And our military is not up to the task.
If there is a war involving America, every Democrat & RINOs sons & daughters should be on the front line.
It is always true down through history that ONLY YOUR ENEMY WANTS YOU DISARMED.
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people and therefore deprive them of their arms.” —Aristotle (384 BC—322 BC)
I want to go on record, I am not a threat. I do not have first hand information of all the Clinton”s criminal activity although it is a public record and they should have been punished. I believe Joe Biden is not only a traitor, but a blithering idiot.. He couldn’t care less about the American People. The second amendment is clear, shall not be infringed means just that. If the DOJ, law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals decide who pose a threat absent an actual crime. We should all be armed, they are a threat to our Constitutional rights and a life in civil society..