In a bold move that’s sending shockwaves through gun-restrictive states like California, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has formally notified the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department: stop violating citizens’ Second Amendment rights. This communication signals a major shift in federal enforcement priorities. For too long, blue states have enacted and enforced laws that trample on the constitutional right to keep and bear arms. But Bondi isn’t just making noise—she has serious tools at her disposal. Chief among them is the power to initiate federal criminal charges against local and state officials who arrest or prosecute Americans for lawfully carrying firearms for self-defense. These kinds of actions can be prosecuted as civil rights violations under federal law.   18 U.S. Code § 242  provides that, Whoever, under color of any law, statute, ordinance, regulation, or custom, willfully subjects any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District to t...