From the moment I first learned about Red Flag laws, or Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), I have been deeply concerned, because the only risk is to our rights and their unconstitutional overreach beyond the Second Amendment.
Why are anti-gun politicians so determined to create a national gun registry and expand red flag laws? It’s not about safety. It’s about control. There is a plan, and it’s been unfolding for nearly a century.
The roots of this effort trace back to 1934, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt capitalized on the violence of the Prohibition era to push through the National Firearms Act (NFA). Until then, gun laws were largely left to the states. But Roosevelt’s so-called New Deal for Crime introduced one of the first federal gun control laws, complete with taxation and registration. He justified it by pointing the blame at gangsters and targeting machine guns, short-barreled rifles, silencers, and even grenades. The price tag was steep at the time: $200 per registered item.
It wasn’t about crime control then, and it isn’t about safety now. The NFA was the first domino in a long line of federal and state efforts to build lists of lawful gun owners, in the hopes of ultimately disarming them. Modern-day gun control advocates have simply expanded on that same playbook. Today, they hide behind buzzwords like “universal background checks” and “extreme risk protection orders,” but the goal hasn’t changed: registration, followed by confiscation.
By Dan Wos
