{"id":89389,"date":"2018-03-13T13:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=89389"},"modified":"2026-06-05T06:27:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T11:27:56","slug":"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders&#8230;  Now It Supports &#8216;Em!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m14GPQlTogo?rel=0\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9ViG0lQoW5w\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\"><em>Our pets&#8217; heads are fallin&#8217; off!!!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s kinda how I feel at the moment.\u00a0 What I mean is that who woulda thought that a year into Trump&#8217;s presidency we&#8217;d be watching the National Rifle Association &#8212; the nation&#8217;s preeminent gun rights organization &#8212; make a push for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/doj-to-regulate-bump-stocks-as-machineguns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\">bump stock bans<\/a> and firearm surrender bills?\u00a0 Not me!<\/p>\n<p>Because really, that&#8217;s where we are right now!!!\u00a0 What happened to the <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/hearing-protection\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\" target=\"_blank\">Hearing Protection Act<\/a>?\u00a0 Concealed Carry Reciprocity?\u00a0 Those goodies that we were led to believe were imminent with the election of The Don.<\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re not following me, the NRA-ILA&#8217;s chief lobbyist Chris Cox publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nratv.com\/home\/video\/chris-w-cox-we-can-prevent-violence-and-protect-freedom\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\">supported<\/a> extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs) in a video Monday.\u00a0 It&#8217;s embedded above.<\/p>\n<p>On the issue of ERPOs what the NRA-ILA<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20180228\/maine-firearm-surrender-bill-to-be-filed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\"> once referred to as<\/a> &#8220;firearm surrender bills,&#8221; he\u00a0said, &#8220;We need to stop dangerous people before they act. So Congress should provide funding for states to adopt Risk Protection Orders. This can help prevent violent behavior before it turns into a tragedy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These laws allow a court to intervene and temporarily remove firearms when a person threatens violence to themselves or others,&#8221; Cox continued. &#8220;To be effective and constitutional, they should have strong due-process protections and require that the person get treatment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s literally rewind the tape to Feb. 27, 2018.\u00a0 In a notification titled, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20180228\/maine-firearm-surrender-bill-to-be-filed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\">Maine: Firearm Surrender Bill to be Filed<\/a>,&#8221; the NRA-ILA warns the reader about these dubious ERPOs.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/doj-to-regulate-bump-stocks-as-machineguns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\" rel=\"bookmark\">DOJ To Regulate Bump Stocks as \u2018Machineguns\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_89390\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Speeches-Seroes-Image-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89390\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89390\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Speeches-Seroes-Image-2-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Speeches-Seroes-Image-2-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Speeches-Seroes-Image-2-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Speeches-Seroes-Image-2.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-89390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The NRA is &#8220;freedom&#8217;s safest place.&#8221; Make sure to donate today! \ud83d\ude09<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Extreme Risk Protection bills allow for the issuance of protective orders to infringe on Second Amendment rights based on third party allegations and little, if any, real evidence and limited &#8216;due process&#8217; for the respondent,&#8221; said the NRA-ILA.<\/p>\n<p>It goes on to say that, &#8220;Constitutional rights should only be restricted with proper due process of law,&#8221; suggesting that these ERPOs treat the 2A as a &#8220;second-class right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tell me,\u00a0please.\u00a0 Because I&#8217;d really like to know.\u00a0 What&#8217;s changed from February of this year till now? Those NRA-ILA criticisms of ERPOs are as spot on today as they were back then. Right? So, why the change of heart?<\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/massachusetts-lawmakers-weigh-confiscatory-gun-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\">said in the pas<\/a>t, my beef with ERPOs is that it&#8217;s nothing more than a\u00a0nanny-state gun grab. <em>Dangerous people have guns, aahhhhhh! What can we do to stop them? I know, let\u2019s shred the Constitution and lower the evidentiary bar for what constitutes a dangerous person and start grabbing guns from everyone! If we\u2019re wrong, who cares, those dreaded gun owners can always get their firearms back after a lengthy and costly appeal in court.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even joking.\u00a0\u00a0Trump said it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/trump-gun-confiscation\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"chris-cox-nra-extreme-risk-protection-orders\" title=\"NRA-ILA Does 180 on Extreme Risk Protection Orders...  Now It Supports 'Em!\">himself<\/a> during that gun control powwow at the White House earlier this month, &#8220;A lot of times by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process. I like taking the guns early.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is not good.\u00a0 Not good at all.\u00a0 Our pets&#8217; heads are fallin&#8217; off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But more importantly, we need to stop dangerous people before they act,&#8221; said Chris Cox of the NRA-ILA. &#8220;So Congress should provide funding for states to adopt Risk Protection Orders. 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