When Texas’ bizarre new six-week abortion ban went into effect Sept. 1, deputizing citizens to enforce the law by suing each other for up to $10,000 for helping someone to obtain the procedure, a reasonable worry among conservatives was that allowing private citizens to sue each other to enforce a particular ban might limit other constitutional rights, like oh, say, owning a gun. And wouldn’t you know it, at least one gun rights group agrees.


While FPC doesn’t take a position on abortion in the brief, it argues that courts allowing an unconstitutional law to stand because it’s enforced by people’s neighbors, rather than the state, is a slippery slope. “If pre-enforcement review can be evaded in the context of abortion it can and will be evaded in the context of the right to keep and bear arms...It is hardly speculation to suggest that if Texas succeeds in its gambit here, New York, California, New Jersey, and others will not be far behind in adopting equally aggressive gambits to not merely chill but to freeze the right to keep and bear arms.”

You don’t say!

The brief also mentions that Texas-style bounty hunting laws could be passed to mandate COVID-19 vaccination and mask-wearing.

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