more from governor newsom s conversation with my colleague, as he points the finger directly at congress. listen to this. california leads the nation in common-sense gun safety, it saves lives, but we can t do it alone. folks can go to border states and there s a loophole. we have to solve for these patterns. it requires congress to take bold leadership. the number one deaths were children, and we didn t do a damn thing. congress is sitting on their there s very tough politics around gun regulation. what do you think you can actually do now? we have no choice but to continue to try to address this
The state attorney general has petitioned the Oregon Supreme Court to either toss out rulings by a circuit judge that block gun control Measure 114 from taking effect or else
restrictive gun law to remain in effect as legal challenges play out. so in a brief order, the justices rebuffed an emergency request from challengers who said the law violated their constitutional rights. and two justices stressed they re not ruling on the merits of law but declining to intervene in this dispute. so what are the tea leaves there. supreme court reporter avian devogue joins us now. you have two conservative justices saying what. you remember they changed the language of second amendment. and they got rid of that in new york, but they changed the fame work that judges will use to look at any gun regulation going forward, right. so supporters of gun rights were emboldened, they went back to court on a whole host of issues and we really saw a ripple effect going on right now of these cases back at the court. the one that came back for the first time now to the supreme
and didn t do what they usual do, democrats usually gum up stuff so it doesn t pass, republicans usually say no to everything. that s progress, but let me tell you. things are about to get real scary, the day before roe was overturned another case came town from the supreme court, new york city pistol and rifle versus before you know, clarence thomas said that if you can t find a law if 1791 when the first amendment was ratified you can t introduce if you gun regulation, so in west virginia, for example, a court there decided that it was unconstitutional to have serial numbers on guns if you watched forensic files that s how most cops sell gun crimes, in texas, a judge decided that it was unconstitutional to prohibit someone who was a domestic abuser from owning a gun because
legislation. in several attempts after that, or gotten regulation. legislation. in several attempts afterthat, or gotten regulation. i disagree with joe afterthat, or gotten regulation. i disagree withjoe because i do not think americans are as divided as he is implying on certain aspects of gun regulation that regularly show sweeping majorities in favour of things like background checks. the proof is that, from the different law centre who was shot in one of these law centres, there have been 525 pieces of legislation at the state level in the last ten years since sandy hook. that means states themselves and they pointed out, all of the states have adopted at least one. that means there is plenty of support for it, it is doable. it is also encouraging that the sum of the us did manage to pass its first package of federal regulations although i would say it was a gun deterrent package rather than regulation, not even nearly enough compared to what is needed as we see people keep dying