Why Passage of California’s Prop 50 Is Bad News for Gun Rights

Redistricting efforts may not sound all that much like it should make a difference in the Second Amendment debate. California’s especially. After all, isn’t California already anti-gun enough for a dozen states?

That’s certainly true, but on Tuesday, in addition to all the other ways gun rights lost big, it also lost with the passage of Prop 50 in the Golden State.

What is Prop 50, some of you may ask?

Well, it’s a proposition that would take redistricting out of the hands of a supposedly independent panel and put it back in the hands of the heavily Democratic legislature.

Even CNN knows why they’re really doing this:

California voters approved Proposition 50 which replaces the state’s current congressional map, which was drawn by an independent commission, with one that was drawn by Democrats. The new map aims to help Democrats flip five GOP seats and is just the latest in an unprecedented series of new politically motivated maps from both parties ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Now, this is billed as a response to Republican efforts in states like Texas, but let’s understand something about California. While they say this is a response to gerrymandering, the state was gerrymandered long ago.

For example, out of 52 House seats in the state, only nine of them are held by Republicans. That’s a hair over 17 percent of them.

Yet President Trump took nearly 39 percent of the vote against Californian Kamala Harris. California is a lot more Republican than it shows up in its congressional delegation.

With Prop 50, though, California is going to gerrymander as many of those nine Republicans out of office.

As we’re looking at the midterms likely being something of a setback for the GOP as it is, what California is trying to do is stack the deck so they can not just take the House for Democrats in 2026, but do so for a much longer term than the next electoral cycle.

Since Democrats are largely running on issues like gun control–and even if they’re not running on it, we know where most of them stand–it’s safe to say that the more seats they fill with Democrats, the more votes we’ll see against our gun rights.

The only potential upside here is if Texas, the second-largest state in the country, flips the script and does its own version of gerrymandering to push anti-gun politicians out of office. No, this isn’t a good thing in and of itself, but it might be the only way to counter the corrupt efforts of anti-gun states to over-represent issues like gun control in Congress.

Now, will California suddenly tip the scale?

That depends, in part on what other states do with their own redistricting efforts, but as it stands, Republicans have a six-seat majority in the House. That means there’s no chance of gun control really getting through there without something weird happening.

With Prop 50, it’s entirely possible that California can change the makeup all on its own. Picking up seven out of nine seats might not be super likely, but that depends on how overt the legislature wants to be about its gerrymandering.

That would mean that gun control could well pass the House.

If the Senate flips, too, that means passage. Then, everything rests of Trump’s veto, which might be easy to assume now, but this isn’t a fight for the here and now. We need to hold onto our rights for eternity, and this is likely going to make it that much harder to do so.

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