LG endorsing Red Flag Gun Laws?
In a rare display of bipartisanship, Senate Judiciary Committee members seemed to offer their support this morning for the growing movement among states to pass extreme risk protection orders, commonly known as red flag laws, since the school shooting in Parkland, Florida.
South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, who has become one of President Trump’s biggest cheerleaders in recent months, called the hearing, he said, to “start a discussion about what’s working at the state level.” But in his opening remarks, he stopped short of endorsing a national push, “I think passing a federal law is beyond what the market will bear.”
Rather, Graham said, he wants to create “an incentive at the federal level” for states that want to implement their own red flag laws. That would seem to be an endorsement of a bill introduced in February by Senator Dianne Feinstein, a California Democrat and the ranking committee member, that would encourage states to use federal funding to offset the cost of implementing red flag policies. But not a single Republican has signed on to cosponsor the measure, despite its compatibility with Graham’s stated aims….
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https://www.thetrace.org/2019/03/red-flag-law-senate-hearing-republicans/
Is Graham a Snake in the grass??