House Speaker Paul Ryan is bowing to the Democrats’ raucous demands and has set himself up for more strife among his own party by agreeing to push a piece of gun legislation through Congress this week.

In the wake of the June 12 Orlando shooting at a gay nightclub, the House Democrats began renewing their calls for stricter gun control as the Republicans pushed for legislation that focused on national security and terrorism. But the Democrats — who proceeded to stage a highly publicized House sit-in as part of their protesting process — have succeeded in deflecting the focus and disrupting the House proceedings to reach Ryan’s breaking point.

“If the bill becomes law, it will mark a massive expansion of the government’s ability to restrict gun rights on the basis of precrime—a crime not yet committed. H.R. 5611 is the actualization of dystopian fiction.”

Hence the proposal of the Homeland Safety and Security Act, H.R. 5611: a bill that would allow the Department of Justice to deny someone the right to purchase a firearm if it can convince a judge in three days that there is probable cause that a prospective buyer would engage in terrorism-related acts.

But rather than pacifying both liberals and conservatives, Ryan’s push for the bill has caused severe fracturing and backlash within his own party.

“If successful this week, H.R. 5611 will be among the most egregious gun control measures ever to pass either house of Congress,” said Rep. Justin Amash in a statement on Facebook. “If the bill becomes law, it will mark a massive expansion of the government’s ability to restrict gun rights on the basis of pre-crime — a crime not yet committed. H.R. 5611 is the actualization of dystopian fiction.”

H.R. 5611, which was modeled after earlier legislation proposed by Sen. John Cornyn and backed by the National Rifle Association, was proposed by Ryan as an apparent attempt to mollify the Democrats and distract them from the stricter gun control measures they have been clamoring for during the past couple weeks. But some of the Republicans see the bill as a bone tossed by Ryan to reward the Democrats for their blatant disregard of House rules and decorum throughout their protests — which included chants, speeches, singing ,and shouting as they communicated their call for votes on gun legislation.

“I think [the Democrats] put the speaker and the majority in the position where they can’t yield, otherwise you legitimize what is a very illegitimate tactic,” Rep. Tom Cole, an Oklahoma Republican, told CNN.

For the time being, the House Democrats have decided to allow Congress to carry on its business as usual, but Ryan spokeswoman AshLee Strong said the two parties “have different views on how to achieve a shared goal of preventing gun deaths,” adding that the next steps on anti-terror legislation “will be discussed and determined by the majority in the coming days,” according to The Associated Press.

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But even if the bill receives a decent show of support from Democratic congressmen, it would still require most Republicans to enthusiastically support it — and in that area, Ryan’s bill seems to be sorely lacking. The House Freedom Caucus, a group containing over 40 of the House’s most conservative members, issued a press release on Wednesday that condemned the bill, saying that it failed “to do enough to address the threat of radical Islamic terrorism” while including “gun control provisions that fail to adequately protect due process.”

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Calling the bill “atrocious” with “staggering implications,” Amash, a member of the Freedom Caucus, said that the bill’s disregard for the Second Amendment, compounded with its disrespect for the right to due process and a commitment to the “Rule of Law,” should disqualify it from serious consideration.

“It permits the federal government to restrict a constitutionally secured right — the right to keep and bear arms — based merely on what the government predicts someone will do in the future,” Amash said in his statement. “Terrorists already can be arrested, charged, tried, and convicted under current law — and denied gun rights. The real innovation of H.R. 5611 is to grant the government power to target law-abiding Americans.”