6 States Want to Make Red Flag Enforcement a Felony

Six states are coming for red flag laws with something the confiscation lobby has never faced before: felony charges.

South Carolina lawmakers introduced the Ban Against Red Flag Gun Confiscation Act — legislation that would make enforcement of an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) a **felony**. Not a fine. Not a written reprimand. A felony charge for any agent, officer, or official who attempts to disarm a law-abiding citizen without a criminal charge, trial, or conviction.

Let that land: the officer who shows up at your door to take your guns — based on a tip from an estranged ex or an angry neighbor — would face the same legal jeopardy as the criminals they've been ignoring.

And the other side knows exactly how big this is.

The Trace — funded by Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun network and packaged as neutral journalism — published a story on these bills framed as a direct warning to the confiscation lobby. When Bloomberg's media arm runs a five-alarm piece, that is not reporting. **That is a call to arms for the other side.**

South Carolina is not alone. Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming, and Texas are all advancing similar legislation. The push is real, multi-state, and coordinated — and it is moving fast.

The Trace insists ERPOs "may help prevent mass shootings." That is messaging dressed as science. Red flag laws allow a judge to strip your Second Amendment rights based on an accusation — before any charge is filed, before any jury hears a word, before you get a single day in court. No crime. No conviction. Just gone.

The outlet mourns that ERPOs "once enjoyed bipartisan support." What it refuses to explain is why that support collapsed: gun owners got educated. They watched these orders weaponized against veterans, against people caught in bitter divorces, against political targets. They watched Gary Willis shot dead in his own doorway in Maryland when police arrived at 5 a.m. to execute a red flag order.

**Due process is not a technicality. It is the whole point.**

Now states are writing felony exposure into the equation — and The Trace's visible panic is the clearest confirmation these bills have real bite.

The gun-control machine is already tracking every one of these bills. Bloomberg's operatives will lobby, testify, and flood local media with polished narratives designed to stall or kill them. They have done it before. They are better funded than most state legislatures are prepared for.

If your state is on this list — South Carolina, Montana, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming, Texas — call your legislators now and tell them to hold the line. If your state is not on the list, call your representatives and ask them why not.

The Second Amendment does not carry a "crisis exception." Neither should your state law.

Watch this one closely. The next move belongs to Bloomberg's lobbying operation — and how these states respond will set the template for every 2A fight that follows.