{"id":101595,"date":"2024-04-29T14:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101595"},"modified":"2024-04-29T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T19:48:58","slug":"101595","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101595","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Newsom\u2019s gun control constitutional amendment gets nowhere, to the surprise of no one<\/a><\/p>\n

Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines last summer for proposing a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution enshrining a handful of gun control measures into the supreme law of the land.<\/p>\n

There was some ginned up fanfare, with state Sen. Aisha Wahab praising Newsom as \u201ca man of action\u201d in the press release announcing the amendment.<\/p>\n

It was all a bit much for what everyone understood at the time to be Newsom\u2019s latest attempt at positioning himself for the White House.<\/p>\n

Alas, the California Legislature, dominated by the Democratic Party, approved a resolution calling for a constitutional convention on gun safety. Thirty-three states must make similar calls for such a convention to happen, but even then there\u2019s an asterisk (more on that later).<\/p>\n

Almost a year later, reports Bay Area News Group\u2019s John Woolfolk, no other blue state has taken up Newsom on his proposal.<\/p>\n

As Woolfolk notes, there are 18 other states with state legislatures controlled by the Democrats. But none have shown signs of following suit.<\/p>\n

This is certainly not a surprise. Most states in the country have little interest in the sort of gun control measures pitched by Newsom.<\/p>\n

Constitutional attorney Cody J. Wisniewski explained in these pages back in June: \u201cGiven only 10 states and Washington D.C. have any form of ban on so-called \u2018assault weapons\u2019 or any form of waiting period, while 27 states have enacted some iteration of free\/constitutional\/permitless carry, it is clear that there isn\u2019t currently much appetite for Newsom\u2019s particular brand of gun control across the country.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the problem with the fact that the California Legislature called for a constitutional convention limited to matters of gun safety.
\n\u201cBut constitutional scholars say it\u2019s unclear that\u2019s legally possible,\u201d Woolfolk reports. If a constitutional convention did indeed get assembled, states could use the circumstance to propose whatever they want.<\/p>\n

Oregon Sen. Floyd Prozanski told Woolfolk that\u2019s among the reasons his state doesn\u2019t seem likely to go down the path pitched by Newsom. \u201cThe last thing I\u2019d want is to open up something where we can\u2019t put the lid back on the can,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And so that\u2019s where Newsom\u2019s much-touted constitutional amendment and foray into national politics and national influence-peddling stands: nowhere.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this isn\u2019t any surprise to this editorial board. On June 13, 2023, we said of the proposal: \u201cThis editorial board isn\u2019t impressed by Newsom\u2019s proposal and we\u2019re confident most of the rest of the country won\u2019t be, either.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Newsom\u2019s gun control constitutional amendment gets nowhere, to the surprise of no one Gov. Gavin Newsom made headlines last summer for proposing a 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution enshrining a handful of gun control measures into the supreme law of the land. There was some ginned up fanfare, with state Sen. Aisha Wahab … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-o-the-day","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101596,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101595\/revisions\/101596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}