California Gov. Gavin Newsom should not have sufficient to do as a result of he’s spending a lot of his time trolling Republicans in different states. First it was Florida on Disney, and now it’s Texas, with a brand new legislation modeled on the Lone Star State’s abortion legislation that prices personal residents with implementing a state ban on so-called assault weapons. Mr. Newsom’s gambit may do broader hurt, because the American Civil Liberties Union warns.

Democrats in Sacramento final month enacted laws creating a personal proper of motion to sue gun makers and distributors for imported firearms that violate the state’s gun legal guidelines. California legislation prohibits greater than 50 fashions of semiautomatic rifles, pistols and shotguns that Democrats name assault weapons although many are in frequent use.