They are even doing it nationally, to any republican opposition to them getting more power, more wealth,

and winning more elections.

    They will pick and pick, twisting what is this, what is that, what is a crime, then they will change it at will, if they can.

Interesting article:

https://www.ammoland.com/2019/10/atf-lower-receiver-dilemma-recalls-stalin-era-axiom-on-crime/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&utm_campaign=e2998a5f08-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-e2998a5f08-20770865#axzz62RierIaU

“There's no way to rule innocent men,” novelist and Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand wrote. “The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”

Lavrentiy Beria, Stalin’s head of secret police, chillingly put that into practice:

“Show me the man and I'll find you the crime.”

That sure is a far cry from the government’s mandate to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.”'