Newsom passes bill that allows citizens to sue gunmakers for shootings [View all]

California has passed a new bill that will allow private citizens to sue gunmakers' whose products are used in shootings - a policy directly modeled after Texas abortion laws that allow residents of the state to target abortion providers.

California Governor Gavin Newsom said Friday that he believes the new guidance will force the Supreme Court to reconsider a previous ruling on the contentious Texas law - which lets private citizens enforce the state’s ban on abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected - while revealing its 'hypocrisy.'

'If Texas can use a law to ban a woman’s right to choose and to put her health at risk, we will use that same law to save lives and improve the health and safety of the people in the state of California,' Newsom said during a news conference Friday.

At the conference, held in the coastal town of Del Mar, just north of San Diego, the left-leaning politician asserted that the Texas law was unethical, and slammed the Supreme Court’s decision late last year to let it stay in effect despite the fact that it had been appealed as 'absurd' and 'outrageous.'

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