Biden Administration’s Anti-Gun ‘Red Flag Center’ Breaches Constitutional and Legal Standards

A Democrat-controlled Congress gave the Biden administration the ability to block-grant funds for enforcement of “red flag” laws in several states, but the Biden administration has proceeded to take the next illogical step, violating both the Constitution and the statute passed by Congress to implement their “National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.” On Thursday, Dr. John R. Lott Jr., president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and Representative Thomas Massie (R-KY) made the case why this “resource center” needs to be shut down immediately.

On Saturday, Vice President Kamala Harris touted the administration’s new National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center, which will “support the effective implementation of state red flag laws” and “keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.” But there is a problem: Congress never authorized the U.S. Department of Justice to create this resource center. The administration confuses “grants … to implement state … mental health courts, drug courts, veterans’ courts, and extreme risk protection order programs” with creating an entirely new center for one of these areas.

This isn’t the first time the Biden administration has gone beyond what the law allows and done more harm than good.

This isn’t the first time the Biden administration has gone beyond what the law allows — or the Constitution.