Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida on Monday bashed Democrats for a “tyrannical” gun-grab bill that seeks to punish shooting ranges and citizen watch groups.
The Fort Walton Beach Republican was racing to a National Pulse (NP) article about the “Preventing Private Paramilitary Activity Act of 2024,” introduced by two radical leftist Democrats, Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Jamie Raskin of Maryland.
As the NP reported, the bill, if enacted, would “criminalize everything from gun safety training groups to firearm ranges as well as private security teams serving at U.S. churches.”
The text of the bill says it would outlaw groups that “publicly patrol, drill, or engage in techniques capable of causing bodily injury or death.”
Moreover, the measure also criminalizes groups that “assume the functions of a law enforcement officer, peace officer, or public official, whether or not acting under color of law.”
In a recent statement promoting the bill, Raskin linked groups that are “patrolling neighborhoods” to the mob that participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, calling them “domestic extremists’ paramilitary operations (that) are in no way protected by our Constitution.”
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In response to the article, Gaetz told NP: “Democrats in Congress have decided that two’s a crowd and three’s an ‘unlawful paramilitary organization.’”
“Under this proposed tyrannical decree, any three Americans who organize to train or drill in firearm safety or security may face criminal or civil targeting by a weaponized DOJ,” he continued “This insane legislation offends the Second Amendment, which unambiguously supports a well-regulated militia of free citizens.”
“I guarantee that I and other pro-2A members of Congress will fight to kill it,” Gaetz added.
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