Now that the Supreme Court has largely validated Texas’s abhorrent ban on reproductive health care, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is looking to the Lone Star State for inspiration: not to attack abortion access in his state, but to emulate the legislative model set forth by Texas to instead target gun manufacturers and distributors.
In a terse statement released over the weekend in the wake of the high court’s ruling, Newsom announced he had begun crafting a legal framework that would, like Texas’s anti-choice law deputizing anyone to sue health care providers that offer abortions, “create the ability for private citizens to sue anyone who manufactures, distributes, or sells an assault weapon or ghost gun kit or parts” in California.
