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The Washington Post reports:
S.B. 1362, known as the Anti-Red Flag Act, preemptively bars the state from adopting or enforcing most kinds of extreme risk protective orders. ERPOs, as they’re known, allow a judge or magistrate to temporarily restrict a person’s access to firearms — either ones they already own or ones they plan to buy — during a crisis.
The new law prohibits judicial authorities from using a red-flag order in civil cases to confiscate a person’s guns and threatens them with criminal penalties, including jail time, if they try to enforce such an order. Texas judges can still issue ERPOs in criminal cases and for existing domestic violence protection orders.
The Anti-Red Flag Act also seeks to gird against any future federal red-flag law. S.B. 1362 prevents Texas entities from accepting federal dollars to help implement or enforce an ERPO and declares that any federal emergency protective order law that violates Second Amendment rights is unenforceable in Texas.
Read the full article. Abbott also signed a bill decriminalizing the possession of sawed-off shotguns. It’s what Jesus would want. A study released earlier this month showed that red states lead the nation in child deaths by gunfire.
It’s official, SB 1362 — to BAN RED Flag Gun Confiscation Laws — was signed by Governor Abbott.
Now, gun confiscation without due process is PROHIBITED in Texas, starting Sept 1.
Thank you to @SenBryanHughes @ColeHefnerTX @BriscoeCain for leading on this issue. pic.twitter.com/wiVqF64kLR
— Texas Gun Rights (@TXGunRights) June 23, 2025