(Reuters) – California governor Gavin Newsom stated that he will use a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision on Texas’ strict abortion restrictions to create a law that allows private citizens to sue gun distributors, manufacturers and sellers.

The Texas law that allows private citizens in Texas to sue those who assist a woman seeking an abortion within six weeks of her pregnancy was upheld by the Supreme Court.

The Texas law was designed by the state’s Republican-controlled legislature to avoid normal means of legal challenge, because rather than making state officials responsible for enforcement, it instead gave private individuals anywhere the right to sue doctors who provide abortion services in Texas and anyone else who “aids or abets” the process.

The court allowed the Texas law to continue in force, but it ruled that legal challenges could be brought against it, which critics claim amounts to vigilante justice.

Newsom is a Democrat and said that his team would work together with Rob Bonta, the state attorney general, and the legislature in order to create a proposal similar to the Texas law. This proposal would allow citizens the right of sue sellers, manufacturers, or distributors for assault weapons or ghost guns kits exceeding $10,000 each violation.

Newsom expressed outrage at the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision yesterday allowing Texas to ban most abortion services.

California, if states are able to now protect their laws from being reviewed by federal courts, which compare assault weapons and Swiss Army knives, will then use that authority in order to protect lives. Texas did it to place women at risk.

Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in disapproval to Friday’s court decision, attacked the majority of the court for not “putting an end to the madness” warning that other states may try to replicate the Texas enforcement system.

Joe Biden, President of the United States said that while he was concerned about the repealing of the abortion ban, he also said that it was encouraging for the court to allow part to the lawsuits by providers.