(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.

Friday’s Supreme Court ruling allowed Texas to continue in force the law that allows private citizens in Texas to sue those who assist a woman seeking an abortion. This applies after six weeks.

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.

Although the Texas law was allowed to stand, the court decided that legal challenges might be filed against it. This is what critics call vigilante justice.

Newsom, a Democrat said Saturday that his team and Rob Bonta the Texas Attorney General will collaborate to develop a proposal for citizens who violate Texas’ law to sue vendors, distributors, producers, or sellers of assault weapons, ghost gun kits, and at least $10,000 per 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 dissenting to Friday’s verdict criticized the court’s majority as failing to “put an ending to this madness” and warned other states that they could copy the Texas enforcement process.

Joe Biden, President of the United States said that while he was concerned about the repealing of the ban on abortions in the US, he also said that it was encouraging for the court to grant part to the legal action by providers.